Neil McKenzie is the ideal replacement for Shaun Pollock, whose leadership has been cruelly exposed Peter Robinson So one swallow even a pair of them quite obviously doesn’t make a summer. Come to think of it, those victories over New Zealand and Australia at the start of the one-day series hardly seem swallows any longer. […]

Glenda Daniels Collect-a-bag scheme? Biodegradable plastics? Spot fines for litterbugs? Brown paper bags? Ten cents for your own plastic bag? These proposals are probably not up for negotiation before the government uses its big stick on environmentally unsound plastic bags. Regulations were passed last year, and from January next year stiff penalties up to R10 […]

Suzan Chala It seems South Africans are better businessfolk than Germans. In this country, women who are looking for “fun” pay in advance. Media reports last week quoted German police saying a brothel catering for women in that country had closed because female clients refused to pay in advance and afterwards paid only what they […]

I agree with most of Margaret Legum’s argument (“Footloose Capital Must be Brought to Heel”, January 18), but I cannot agree with her conclusions. A basic income grant (even if it is affordable to the country) is a passive remedy. Humans need work, not only to satisfy material needs, but also to fulfill their need […]

Suppression of human rights continues in Mauritania, one of Africa’s poorest and least-known nations, writes John Matshikiza I flew into Nouakchott, capital of the Saharan state of Mauritania, on November 26 1994. I remember the date precisely, because it was my 40th birthday a watershed moment, celebrated in a land without water. I was leading […]

It is government policy to redevelop and clean up hostels monuments to the apartheid-inspired migrant-labour system and a focus for township violence but many obstacles remain. Thabo Mohlala reports “Ever since the violence stopped, a new sense of maturity and normalcy has set in here. I am very excited about it. I’m free now to […]

Negotiated transition averted mass bloodshed COMMENT Saeb Erakat and Yossi Beilin These feel like the worst of days. Last week saw Israeli air raids on the Palestinian headquarters in Tulkarm, in retaliation for the killing by a Palestinian gunman of six Israeli civilians at a bat mitzvah or coming-of-age party. That was a revenge attack […]

The startling truth about the Middle-East conflict and Jewish sentiment towards the Holy Land has no similarities to that of any nation in the world. Just as Jews insist on preaching their obligation to aliyah (immigration to Israel), they need to accept that it has far-reaching implications. If one studies the sad statistics of those […]

Jaspreet Kindra Disillusioned by the apparent reconciliation between the trade unions and the African National Congress, United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa now doubts any alliance can be forged between opposition groupings before the 2004 general elections. “I don’t think parties are ready or that our political process is mature enough,” he said this week. […]

Lusaka | Friday ZAMBIA’S major mining company, Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), could face closure if its main shareholders, Anglo American Corporation (AAC) of South Africa, withdraw from the venture, the companies said on Thursday. Anglo American, which bought off Zambia’s major mining assets in March 2000, said in a statement that it was considering pulling […]