The NGO sector moves poverty back to centre stage with a daring pre-election roadshow, reports Ferial Haffajee In Bloemfontein, the heart of South Africa, on March 17, the nation’s poor will begin to speak out. They will continue to do so for more than two months, speaking about overcrowded schools, cardboard homes and dwindling social […]
Ann Eveleth Last year the National Land Committee fought tooth and nail to deepen the rights of rural dwellers enshrined in the Extension of Security of Tenure Act. This year it is poised to become a key implementer of the compromise legislation which came into effect on November 28. The committee, an umbrella of 10 […]
suit Who is . . . Morgan Tvsangirai? Mercedes Sayagues Trade union leader Morgan Tvsangirai, who has captured the hearts of many Zimbabweans, has emerged as President Robert Mugabe’s public enemy number one and a leading figure on Zimbabwe’s political scene. With his simple lifestyle, casual, tie-less attire, easy laugh, straight talk and quick wit, […]
Robert Kirby: Loose Cannon Our own police administration isn’t the only one coming in for continual and unwarranted media criticism. You should hear what they’ve been saying recently about that paragon of constabular integrity, the British police force. More especially the doings of someone they’ve dubbed “Condon of the Yard” – Sir Paul Condon, metropolitan […]
or new Randlords? Pallo Jordan: CROSSFIRE The commencement of the 20th century came at the height of what historians call the Age of Imperialism and in the midst of the Anglo-Boer War, a war between two colonising power structures to determine which of them would design modern South Africa. Sixteen years earlier, in 1884, Africa […]
Ferial Haffajee The Green Paper on broadcasting will start a shake-up of the industry which will change it fundamentally. We summarise the comments from lobbyists who have suggested everything from the scrapping of an SABC Channel and television licences to the total rejection of the Green Paper. Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI): The FXI says […]
‘Braknaars’ of Sourvomit Sickened by Cape Town’s disrespectful tourists, ever-increasing living costs, its daily whitening and a coloured populace Americanised into clones, Zebulon Dread moved to the unknown The unknown is Afrikaans, white Swellendam, 230-odd kilometres from Cape Town, and its twin, coloured Suurbraak 20km away. There I squat on private land amid the mountainous […]
Southern African sisters got their very own Web address when WomensNet was launched. A project of the Southern African non- governmental organisation network (Sangonet) the website and training scheme has taken less than a year to hit the information superhighway. It was conceived in June last year when interested women got together to plan the […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM: Cape Town housing chief Billy Cobbett has decided to stay on in his post in spite of death threats from Cape Flats gangsters. Cobbett returned Cape Town on Friday after spending two weeks in London with his wife and four children, visiting his ill mother-in-law. He fled there a fortnight ago after threats […]
Maurice Hamilton: Motor racing: If JacquesVilleneuve and Michael Schumacher pick up where they left off at the end of last year, they are in danger of fighting for the crumbs rather than the biggest slice of championship cake when the season opens in Melbourne on Sunday. Schumacher’s questionable habit of crashing into his opponent as […]