# What about coloured fears, Mr President? THE ANC has failed to heed the concerns raised by activists from the coloured community. These concerns centre around the continued marginalisation of the community and access to resources. Fears around affirmative action are not taken seriously, yet the ANC has bent over backwards to address white fears […]
South African institutions and stockbrokers say * ocal trading is too small to suffer a Barings Bank-style collapse, reports Jacques Magliolo The collapse of Britain’s 300-year-old Barings Bank has reverberated around the world and forced local institutions and stockbrokers to reassess their own security systems and prevention mechanisms. The announcement that Nick Leeson, a Singapore-based […]
Tales of incompetence emerged during the trial of the 26 rightwingers who allegedly went on a bombing spree on the eve of the April elections, reports Gavin du THE rightwing bombing campaign on the eve of South Africa’s first non-racial election, in which at least 20 people were killed, proved to be as vicious as […]
LAST-MINUTE changes have been made to the Spanish and Egyptian film festival timetables as published in this week’s Weekly Mail & Guardian guide to the Johannesburg In Johannesburg, on Friday March 10 at 10pm, Hurry Hurry will be screened in place of Ecstasy, which will be shown on Saturday March 11 at 10pm. In Cape […]
Mapula Sibanda A ONE-MAN strike by a University of the North (Turf- loop) academic has plunged the university’s optometry faculty into a crisis. Deputy dean Sipho Ndlela, who has worked in the department for 21 years, was suspended in the middle of January after refusing to mark 1994 third and final year examination papers. His […]
They may be provincial teams but the Super 10 matches will be vital as a pointer to the strength of the international teams for the World Cup RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE is more than just Super 10 points riding on the outcome of the opening games in this matching of the top rugby sides in […]
The hiring of the chairman’s daughter as a PR for a JCI wine estate has caused mutterings in the firm. Reg Rumney reports The appointment of the daughter of the chairman of the soon-to-be-unbundled Johannesburg Consolidated Investments as a public relations officer for a subsidiary company raises prima facie questions of Frances Retief, daughter of […]
Stop treating racists with kid gloves, Cosmas Desmond urges the government. The continuing crime of racism makes even a visit to your favourite bar a depressing experiencePRESIDENT Nelson Mandela has been hailed, acclaimed, canonised and even deified by the press for the firm stand he took in his address at the opening of parliament on […]
Lewis Machipisa in Harare Zimbabwe’s four-year-old economic structural adjustment programme (Esap) has failed to meet its key targets, despite strides to implement the austere measures, says a report by a leading Zimbabwean bank. According to the strategic planning division of Standard Chartered Bank, the government has not been able to check its extravagant spending, money […]
Gaye Davis A BID to democratise the selection of a new rector for the University of the Western Cape appears to have backfired. While a decision is expected next week, the process has sharply divided the campus community. UWC’s founding statute was specially amended to throw open the selection process to include workers, students, academics […]