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 […]

Assassinated Namibian advocate Anton Lubowski may have been set up as a Military Intelligence informer, reports Louise Flanagan Documentary evidence which points to South African Military Intelligence (MI) having framed assassinated Windhoek advocate Anton Lubowski as a military source in an apparent attempt to cover up for his killers has now come to light after […]

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 […]

Now well into his 70s, painter Robert Hodgins is still=20 to surprise his audience — and himself. He spoke to Ivor=20 IT is at least as exhilarating as it is ironic that=20 painter Robert Hodgins is finally, as the term has it,=20 ”arriving” — what with a New York dealer having bought=20 nine of the […]

DANCE: Stanley Peskin THE first season staged by the excellent Pact Dance=20 Company this year features one new ballet (Susan=20 Abraham’s Heritage) and two familiar works (Robyn Orlin’s=20 As Fall Women, So Fall Women and Christopher Kindo’s Me=20 and You). Orlin’s work has at its centre three duets which explore=20 the relationship of women to […]

Defence Minister Joe Modise has a lot on his plate. So let us help him get his priorities straight. Let him release immediately the Military Intelligence files on Anton Lubowski to prove their claim that the assassinated Namibian advocate was indeed an informer. The mystery surrounding the slain advocate and senior Swapo member has gone […]

THEATRE: Digby Ricci ‘I DECIDED to write a work that should depart from the=20 trodden path, make a stir, and reverberate on this earth=20 after my demise,” Pierre-Ambroise-Fran=8Dois Choderlos de=20 Laclos famously declared of his chilling, profound=20 epistolary novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, but even this=20 truly prophetic and insightful author could never have=20 predicted the […]

THEATRE: Justin Pearce T O call Athol Fugard’s People are Living There a=20 classic of South African theatre is the kind of cliche=20 that ought to condemn a reviewer to a diet of children’s=20 plays for the rest of eternity. So I won’t. However, People are Living There is a fine enough play to=20 deserve […]

Simon Segal THE capital market will easily absorb the borrowing=20 requirements set out in Chris Liebenberg’s first Budget=20 — no upward pressure will thus be exerted on interest=20 The market itself responded by pushing the long-dated=20 South African bond, called the R150, down initally by=20 10 points to 16,37percent (by the end of Budget day=20 […]

R750 000 in church funds have gone missing but anti- apartheid activist Rev Eddie Leeuw denies he benefited THE Reverend Eddie Leeuw, one of the leading church activists of the Eighties and current director of Eastern Cape Peace Initiative, has become embroiled in a R750 000 church fund fraud scandal. The announcement of the police […]