Gaye Davis FREEDOM Front member Tom Langley’s nomination as South Africa’s ambassador to Portugal has sparked frantic behind-the-scenes lobbying in a bid to stop his Sources told the Weekly Mail & Guardian there was deep concern in Portugal over the move to post Langley, a former National Party and Conservative Party MP, to the country. […]
With his strong union and civic background Thozamile Botha is well-placed to tackle the problems in the Eastern Cape, writes Shadley Nash THE man whose job it is to turn governance in the Eastern Cape from “crisis management” to “strategic management of change” was one of the founders of the civic movement. But Thozamile Botha, […]
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 […]
Justin Pearce AS the University of the Western Cape battled against boycotting students this week, Professor Cecil Abrahams was still pondering whether or not to take up the post of rector which he was offered last Thursday. After consulting students, workers and academics on campus, the UWC council voted unanimously to give the job to […]
President Mandela’s report to the UN World Summit on Social Development shows that South Africa still has a long walk to prosperity, writes Justin Pearce South Africa is one of the most unequal nations in the world with regard to income distribution. This is the essence of the National Social Development Report which President Nelson […]
Enoch Mthembu MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI’S key royal ally in the feud over the Zulu monarchy, Prince Gideon Zulu, was named in court this week as one of the mastermind’s of kwaZulu Police (KZP) hit-squad activities. Also named was Celani Mtetwa, the province’s Safety and Security Minister. During the mitigation hearing for three self-confessed KZP hit-squad killers […]
Justin Pearce A new initiative by the Department of Justice is set to transform the face of South Africa’s magistrate’s courts by allowing lay people to share the bench with The lay assessors, with whom the magistrates will confer in deciding on the guilt of a suspect and in passing sentence, will be appointed by […]
Annie Mapoma THE government’s decision to rename “Sharpeville Day” on March 21 as Human Rights Day, has infuriated the Pan Africanist Congress. March 21 has for 35 years been an unofficial stayaway day for black South Africans marking the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, when police shot dead 69 people and wounded 177 others during a pass […]
So cautious was this week’s budget that the finance=20 minister has been dubbed the Kepler Wessels of finance=20 ministers, writes Reg Rumney It could be described as a Banker’s Budget, cautious=20 and conservative to a fault. Indeed, one humourist this=20 week described Chris Liebenberg as the Kepler Wessels=20 of finance ministers. To be fair to […]
SOCCER: Clinton Asary BOASTING a smile as wide as Kimberley’s famous big=20 hole, there is no doubt that Kaizer Motaung was by far=20 the happiest man at Rand Stadium last Saturday, as he=20 watched his side crush Hellenic 5-1. But it was not the scoreline that had the Kaizer Chiefs=20 camp smiling, rather the way […]