Overall leader Isabelle Autissier is up with the leaders in the first week of the second leg of the BOC Challenge SAILING: Jonathan Spencer Jones TABLE Bay put on her best with clear skies, sparkling seas and a fresh 15 knot south-westerly and over 300 craft turned out to send the fleet on its way […]

Eric Naki THE yet-to-be-established House of Traditional Leaders in the Eastern Cape looks set to be a thorn in the flesh of premier Raymond Mhlaba. Rhetoric from traditional leaders in the province indicates that the government may face a drawn-out battle. The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa), which represents a majority of […]

The government’s affirmative action policy is cruel, heartless and immoral, argues Martin Brassey. Why are its victims so silent? OFFICIAL job reservation, scrapped in 1987, was reintroduced to South Africa a fortnight ago. Yet not a word has been said in protest. Where once the policy provoked uproar, now it evokes mere silence. Silence from […]

Teigue Payne THE new director general of trade and industry, Dr Zav Rustomjee, has given an exposition of his vision of how industry works and how it should be encouraged to be more competitive. The vision involves identifying pipelines, or forward and backward linkages, and nurturing these to greater competitiveness through tariffs, assistance and incentives. […]

Batting blues: Selectors need to think again after dismal failure against Kiwis CRICKET: Jon Swift THERE are, in the light of South Africa’s 137-run loss to Ken Rutherford’s touring New Zealanders at the Wanderers this week, a number of matters to be pondered. The most pressing of these is the continuing failure of the South […]

COUNTRIES listed in the 1989 version of Log 17 are as follows. Group Three (sales prohibited): Zambia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania as well as Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Kampuchea (a note states this depended on “the course of peace negotiations”), Laos, Libya, Mongolia, Syria, South Yemen, Nicaragua, North Korea, Vietnam and Russia. Group […]

The cabinet is split over whether South Africa should send troops to Angola, reports Eddie Koch THE bells that toll for peace in Angola have struck a note of discord in Nelson Mandela’s government. The president — faced with stiff resistance from opposition parties to United Nations requests for troops to help hold the ceasefire […]

Rightwingers are blocking the setting up of new local structures in four provinces, reports Justin Pearce WITH the transition to democratic local government battling to stay on schedule, conservatives are attempting to obstruct the process in at least four provinces. White councillors and black chiefs have stalled the establishment of transitional structures in kwaZulu/Natal, the […]

The Congress of South African Trade Unions has decided that it will not speak to the Weekly Mail & Guardian until its concerns about our coverage of the federation are addressed. Transparency, it appears, is for everyone in the new South Africa except the labour movement. Coupled with the embargo was an instruction to the […]