A SECOND LOOK Peter Vale John Stremlau’s piece (”SA’s role in the war on terrorism”, December 20 2001) is not an analysis of the current inter-national moment, but an effort to recruit South Africa’s people to the debates that all too often justify political mischief and military power. However, his petition is emptied of memory, […]

Mike Berger (”Of rhetoric and ‘resistance”’, December 14 2001) clouds the issues around the Declaration of Conscience by South Africans of Jewish Descent Ronnie Kasrils and I co-authored. Our aim was to call for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, not to write a history. Like most South African Zionists, he does not call for […]

David Macfarlane and Bongani Majola The protracted conflict between distance university Unisa and government heightened this week, when vice-chancellor Barney Pityana threw his weight behind the university’s controversial court challenge to Minister of Education Kader Asmal. Unisa’s council will be disbanded within three weeks if Asmal has his way. But in what senior Unisa academics […]

Critics say last year’s amendments to the Municipal Structures Act will cause massive upheavals with few benefits Drew Forrest Two studies commissioned by Minister of Local Government Sydney Mufamadi have added fuel to a fierce controversy over the future shape of local government in South Africa. Government sources disclosed that a commission appointed by Mufamadi […]

DREW FORREST, Johannesburg | Friday TWO studies commissioned by Minister of Local Government Sydney Mufamadi have added fuel to a fierce controversy over the future shape of local government in South Africa. Government sources disclosed that a commission appointed by Mufamadi and headed by former opposition politician Peter Leon has called for the scrapping of […]

MICHEL SAILHAN, Cairo | Thursday TUTANKHAMUN’S golden treasures are due to be moved from downtown Cairo to a new state-of-the-art museum complex which will be built near the Great Pyramids in the next few years, officials said on Wednesday. The collection, including the famous pharaonic boy king’s gold funerary mask, has been on display for […]

Lagos | Thursday THE Nigerian government will on Thursday open bidding for potentially lucrative licences to set up and run privately-owned oil refineries in Africa’s largest oil producing country, officials said on Wednesday. The potential investors, said to include a number of Nigerian and foreign firms, have all paid a non-refundable deposit of $50 000 […]

Cape Town | Thursday A KLEINMOND barber in the Overberg has denied chasing a 17-year-old youth out of his hair salon because he is black. The youth has filed charges of crimen injuria and assault with the police against Flippie Otto, who claimed on Wednesday: ”I can’t chase anyone, I have a wooden leg. It’s […]

Pretoria | Thursday EDUCATION Minister Kader Asmal was committing a travesty of justice by the way he was going about merging the University of South Africa, Technikon SA and the distance education centre of Vista University, Unisa principal Dr Barney Pityana said on Thursday. In a notice in a government gazette on Friday, Asmal announced […]