South Africans eager to get housing could learn a lot from the way Afrikaners used co-operatives, argues James McGregor All of South Africa’s citizens are aware of the challenge ahead in aiming to house the nation’s lower- income population. The recently published White Paper quantifies the problem: 40% of all households earn less than R800/month; […]

Gaye Davis PARLIAMENT’S creche — vaunted as a symbol of the new government’s commitment to gender equality — has closed because of staffing problems, forcing MPs and other parents to make other arrangements for the care of their children. Parliamentary under-secretary Robbie Karreman said it was hoped the creche, which closed two weeks ago and […]

Yo, Babe! Bafana Khumalo welcomes Queen Elizabeth with some helpful advice for her visit to South Africa. He will be following the royal entourage throughout their I sure hope you had a cool trip and and you were chillin’ in your set of water wheels. I am certain that you are going to have a […]

Ann Eveleth A KEY witness in an African National Congress (ANC) court application against the controversial kwaZulu/Natal House of Traditional Leaders was brutally gunned down just weeks after deposing to an affidavit in support of the case, the ANC said this week. ANC organiser Celani Radebe was shot dead in the Ntabamhlope district of Estcourt […]

So far the battle between the Zulu king and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi has been a war of words — now it’s headed for the courts, writes Ann Eveleth INKATHA Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s new power base in kwa-Zulu/Natal, the controversial House of Traditional Leaders, came under a double-edged legal sword this week following […]

While Chris Liebenberg announced the long awaited=20 scrapping of the discriminatory tax on married women,=20 he said child rebates would be abolished.=20 However, to lessen the burden on lower income earners,=20 who are most affected by the loss of the child rebate,=20 the primary rebate would go up by R400. The middle classes were the […]

This week, the Weekly Mail & Guardian presents a simple lesson in how to prevent corruption among Members of Parliament and provincial legislatures. We publish below the ANC’s Code of Conduct, which sets out the rules the organisation has set down in a bid to prevent its members from being corrupted. Much has been said […]

The proliferation of nominee companies to obscure=20 ownership continues despite the King Commission’s=20 recommendations to the contrary. “One wonders what will=20 trigger a confrontation,” says the latest edition of=20 McGregor’s Who Owns Whom. “One hopes that the sane international norms will soon=20 replace South Africa’s obsession with secrecy,” says=20 Over the past 12 years the […]

Jan Taljaard As high courts go, the new Pretoria Supreme Court has had little time to steep itself in history. No smells of previous life-or-death dramas cling to the machine- tooled benches. The lighting is almost overbearingly efficient and clinical, the texture of the wood panelling, if not exactly cheap, symbolises transient society rather than […]

NOW at last we know the precise mathematical point between a rock and a hard place. It’s Marcia Clark’s life.She’s the prosecutor in the OJ Simpson trial, a case so high-pressure and so celebrated that it’s headline news if she drops a verb. She’s a single mother competing with the big boys. When she tried […]