FALLOUT from Pim Fortuyn’s assassination will be felt not just in Holland but across the world. Where there was harmony, now there is discord. Where there was faith, now there is doubt. In Holland, that byword for flat, tedious stability, politics has grown hot and turbulent.
Plans to turn a world heritage site into a Big Five game park could be shelved if a herd of elephants are unable to adjust to their new home
THE government has agreed to rethink its rules on the mooted presidential press corps. After months of controversy over invasive screening procedures, the presidential press corps is going back to the drawing board
MINISTER of Education Kader Asmal this week slammed the Eastern Cape education authorities, saying officials who failed to deliver basic education services should quit or face disciplinary action.
INVESTIGATORS of the Jali commission have begun probing information that warders at Pietermaritzburg New Prison have made extensive use of prisoners as hired guns
THE Taylor Commission report on a Comprehensive System of Social Security for South Africa has unleashed fierce debate among economists, politicians, government, church and union leaders
REPUTATIONS are at risk as a dispute between business factions heats up. A high court judge and the national police chief both face the heat in a blazing row over a R99-million airports security contract.
THE head of family medicine at Medunsa is sceptical about the existence of HIV and appears to believe that the use of the ”notoriously toxic” anti-retroviral drug nevirapine is part of a campaign to maximise corporate profits
SOUTH Africa’s new immigration law remains steeped in controversy after sweeping last-minute amendments were brought by the African National Congress in Parliament – prompting the cancellation of Thursday’s scheduled vote on the Bill.
You’re stuck in a dying industry, selling a product with a reputation for killing your customers, what do you do? Just change your name and carry on as before.