Mail & Guardian reporter On February 22 the Mail & Guardian ran a story about the tribulations of professional artists who had not been paid for their participation in the operetta Die Fledermaus that ran at Johannesburg’s Civic Theatre over the festive season in 2001. The story noted that the production was the work of […]
Glenda Daniels The unemployment rate in South Africa is worse than official statistics suggest, while wage gaps between races and within race groups have probably increased since 1994, according to a Norwegian survey released this week. The Mesebetsi Labour Force Survey was completed this week by the Norwegian Institute for Applied Social Science (Fafo) and […]
Belinda Beresford Two lines almost certainly mean an early death; one means life. And the few minutes spent waiting for the telltale marks are often an epiphany for the watchers. They are the women, and the occasional man, being tested for HIV at St Mary’s hospital in Mariannhill near Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Whatever the result, watching […]
Last week the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) held hearings on the proposed terms and conditions for a 15-year licence to be issued to Sentech by May 7. Jubie Matlou reviews some of the submissions relating to what is considered to be a unique licence. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 as amended provides, […]
When the UK government started selling off its shares in BT they were over-subscribed three to one. This contradicts some of the theories in South Africa that competition will harm Telkom’s IPO Gary Shepherd Liberalisation of the United Kingdom’s telecommunications industry has been used as a benchmark or referred to as “Best International Practice” by […]
Moji Mokone reflects on the work of Dumile Feni, one of a group of artists from the Sixties whose work eloquently ‘hollered from the mountain tops’ Njabulo Ndebele, writing in co@rtnews, observed how Desmond Tutu at the close of the first day of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings referred to the testimonies of victims […]
THE price of petrol is to increase by six cents per litre from next Wednesday, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday morning. However, the price of diesel with a three percent sulphur content will go down by nine cents per litre and diesel with a five percent sulphur content will be decreased […]
BELINDA BERESFORD, Johannesburg | Friday IN an acrobatic and aerial manoeuvre, the KwaZulu-Natal government has deserted the Department of Health in its fight against the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)over curbing mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Instead Premier Lionel Mtshali says KwaZulu-Natal will obey the “moral imperative” and supply nevirapine to all pregnant women who wish to […]
The Cats centre with the good handling skills is a breath of fresh air in South African rugby Andy Capostagno The finest Springbok centre of them all probably didn’t see it, but just down the road from the hospital where Danie Gerber is recovering from heart surgery, Gcobani Bobo went to the front of the […]
Mobile networks appear to be the most appropriate for the continent with faster roll-outs than fixed-lines and at a lower cost David Shapshak For years the statistic used to illustrate the low telephone penetration into Africa was to equate it with the number of phones in Manhattan. All 54 countries on an entire continent had […]