Weekly Mail & Guardian Reporters Coloureds are being discriminated against in the private sector’s affirmative action (AA) scramble for African faces, particularly in lower level jobs, say leading personnel agencies. Although AA theoretically benefits all disadvantaged people, the majority of companies want Africans, and agencies often use factors like language, place of residence, education, and […]
Bafana Khumalo WHAT the bloody hell am I doing here? I am on an Air Force base tarmac and am about to catch a cold from the rain that has been building up from a gentle drizzle to a serious body-drenching downpour. “Well, I am doing Gallagher and thereafter I don’t think that I am […]
The ANC is being forced to address growing divisions between coloureds and Africans, reports Gaye Davis. Tensions between coloureds and Africans within the ANC in the Western Cape are paralysing the movement and jeopardising its chances of regaining political ground in the local government elections. Western Cape ANC leader Reverend Chris Nissen was to meet […]
THERE could hardly be a more exciting time to start a=20 revamped national radio service in South Africa. Just=20 look at us! We no longer stink like a polecat. The=20 president jets all over the place receiving hero’s=20 welcomes. The Queen of England comes to dinner. In=20 Washington, President Clinton of the United States shakes=20 […]
Louise Flanagan Although Ernst Penzhorn and some of his partners at the prestigious Pretoria law firm where he worked at the time, MacRobert De Villiers Lunnon and Tindall, have registered several front companies for MI, both the military and Penzhorn deny he worked for Military Intelligence (MI) Information published at the time of the Harms […]
ROCK: Guy Willoughby ‘W HO are the Africans, after all?” asks the throatily- toned Bill Knight, right at the start of Skollie Rock,=20 his debut collection of self-penned songs. The songwriter=20 don’t provide no easy answers, as Mr Dylan might say, but=20 the question goes to the heart of his problem on this=20 interesting, uneven […]
The actions of a British paper led to the arrest of a mercenary accused of third force killings. Did they double-cross a murderer for the sake of a good story? Eddie Koch reports THE London Sunday Times is facing controversy over its role in the arrest of a mercenary who was its source in an […]
As increasing numbers of coloured people become disillusioned with the big political parties, a new group has stepped into the breach, writes Stefaans Brummer ‘THE brown man’s struggle did not end when Nelson Mandela was freed. Our struggle is against a new form of slavery which hangs over us like a black cloud,” is how […]
Justin Pearce asks why democracy has worsened the conflict on our campuses The annual row over student fees has become as regular an event on the calendars of some universities as the intervarsity rugby match at others. Students invoke their right to education — the university invokes dwindling government subsidies and rising costs. Usually, everything […]
Weekly Mail & Guardian editor Anton Harber, a former Wits student, believes the university administration has been too clever for its own good The University of the Witwatersrand is providing an early-warning barometer of pressures we can expect in the rest of our society. The campus has often served this role. In the 1970s, it […]