South Africans may never know the truth if the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Bill goes through, argues Paul van Zyl THE recent furore over the clandestine attempt to grant amnesty to 3 500 members of the security forces (including Adriaan Vlok, Magnus Malan and Johan van der Merwe) has strengthened calls for the […]

Eddie Koch and Vusi Khoza THE Zoeknog coffee plantation near Acornhoek was the site of a novel labour dispute late last year. After a driver died in a motor vehicle accident, the 150-strong workforce went on strike and demanded rights to consult a sangoma and sniff out the witches among them who had caused the […]

IT should come as no surprise that there are military ghosts in the SABC machine. In a way, it’s a bit unfair to single out new head of Agenda Nico van Burick when there are so many others, in places as influential or more so, who participated in the use of the SABC as a […]

South Africa needs a new healthy policy, writes researcher Alex van den Heever. But is the proposed National Health Insurance appropriate? THE possible introduction of some form of National Health Insurance (NHI) in South Africa would involve a major shift in emphasis from the way in which health service is presently structured. It is worth […]

Is indigenous work going to get its due in the new South Africa’s school arts curriculum? Ivor Powell investigates a muddled situation BLAME it on the government of national unity, if you like, with its guarantees of jobs for civil servants. Or you can blame it on the new government’s White Paper on education and […]

Mark Gevisser THE deadlock over the future of ex-bantustan broadcasters — notably Bop-TV — may have been broken. Broadcasting Minister Pallo Jordan has created a ministry-led task group to investigate the issue and will promulgate an omnibus Broadcasting Bill this year that will set conditions for “provincial public media”. These two initiatives are the result […]

CRICKET: Luke Alfred WITH Kepler Wessels’ retirement from the international scene and Hansie Cronje’s promotion as national captain, we seem to have been liberated from our fear of failure. At provincial level the youth policies followed so diligently by Natal have brought handsome rewards, with other provinces following suit. The Plascon Academy is up and […]

Peter Mokaba has denied the accusations levelled against him and has blamed the director of the NTF for the financial crisis, writes Mduduzi ka Harvey AS the National Tourism Forum (NTF) chaired by former ANC youth leader Peter Mokaba heads deeper into financial crisis, divisions have been drawn in the upper echelons, with two factions […]

Native tongue Bafana Khumalo I BOUGHT a book this week. Yeah, I did. You probably think that it is a trite observation on my part, but I will have you know that it was a watershed moment for me. It was the first time in a very long time that I had bought a book […]

Police have reacted to the amnesty issue with a threat to release damaging information on cabinet members an politicians reports Gaye Davis POLICE have put a loaded gun to the head of the government of national unity (GNU), threatening to release evidence linking cabinet ministers and politicians in the National Party, ANC and other parties […]