Eddie Koch BLAST, lash, haul and crush. The words that describe the essential stages of gold production on South African mines are drawn from the imagery of battle. When Sotho miners go underground to do these tasks, they sometimes sing a song with a chorus line that says liphoro tsa mali, liphoro — floods of […]

Sheena Duncan THE Black Sash is not disbanding, as Business Day posters proclaimed this week. We are alive and well and forty years old, celebrating our birthday. We will be continuing our work in our restructured form as the Black Sash Trust. The Black Sash was formed in 1955 as the Women’s Defence of the […]

We have changed our newspaper this week as part of a concerted drive to ensure we are a truly modern paper designed for the late 1990s. This is an era when you may get flashes of news more quickly from television, radio or the Internet — but we aim to give you information, depth, reading […]

Indigent people may soon gain wider access to legal representation, reports Justin Pearce Contingency fees — where lawyers are only paid if they win the case — could soon be officially recognised. This will enable the poor to invoke the power of the law without the financial risk of losing a case. Although contingency fees […]

Justin Pearce Argus Newspapers’ new Sunday paper, aimed at taking a bite out of The Sunday Times’ market in Gauteng, will be named the Sunday Independent and launched on June 25. The choice of title — which has not yet been officially disclosed by the company — appears to be a first step towards a […]

Iden Wetherall in Harare When Zimbabwe’s senior public prosecutor made it clear on Monday that the police had insufficient evidence to proceed with defamation charges against those at the helm of the contry’s leading independent newspaper, and that arrests and charges were in any case inappropriate procedures in such a case, a telephone call from […]

FINE ART: James Garner THE paintings by Francine Scialom Greenblatt at the South=20 African Association of Arts in Cape Town serve as a=20 reminder that explorations of sex and sexuality need not be=20 subsumed by the self-conscious, ironic appropriation of=20 media stereotypes that has become so fashionable among=20 artists desperate to place themselves at the […]

Stefaans Brummer DEPUTY Minister of Constitutional Affairs Mohammed Valli Moosa this week intervened in the border dispute between Eastern Transvaal Premier Mathews Phosa and Nothern Transvaal Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi. It is understood Moosa’s move to resolve the dispute over Bushbuckridge — part of the former Lebowa and Gazankulu homelands at present demarcated in the Northern […]

Steuart Wright Political scientists at four universities are in a foul mood over the expedient job-hunting behaviour of internationally respected Nigerian academic Professor Oye They said the charming political scientist and international relations specialist had simultaneously signed contracts for three chairs at their universities at the end of last year. However, news of each university’s […]

Government’s first serious effort to go on-line has begun, writes Bruce Cohen South Africa’s constitution-makers have hitched a ride on the information superhighway. This week, a large database of information relating to the deliberations of the Constitional Assembly was established on the Internet, the global electronic network. The service will contribute to making the process […]