Urban Renewal Award Finalist: The Molopo River Basin Project Michelle Nel Mafikeng, the capital of the North West province, has been the cradle of the scouting movement ever since it was conceived by British General Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell during his time there. Scouting enjoys a membership of 30-million worldwide and has the potential to attract […]
a second look Hamilton Wende Sipho Seepe’s interesting article about African languages (August 10) reminded me of the moment in November 1996 when I was standing outside the main post office in the town of Bukavu in eastern Congo. Laurent Kabila was the leader of the new uprising against the corrupt Mobutu Sese Seko and […]
Imperial Ghetto is a photographic diary of people and events encountered by photographer Omar Badsha in Durban’s Grey Street vicinity in the apartheid era. The title of Badsha’s exhibition, Imperial Ghetto, is an ironic play on the fact that the labyrinth of streets was named after leading members of the Victorian imperial establishment. The photographs, […]
Mungo Soggot The government has reached the end of the road in a marathon legal effort to block a group of doctors in the Northern Province from opening a private hospital in Tzaneen. The judgement sets a precedent for what is likely to be a battle between the medical profession and the government. One of […]
Isn’t it strange… (1) When any African National Congress officials/parliamentarians/Cabinet ministers are accused of corruption, inaccurate or downright false statements, the inevitable response is that the complaint is unjustified and racist regardless of who makes the accusation? (2) We have the most advanced Constitution in the world, we are told, which makes us the envy […]
The Arab and the Jew may never solve their problems, not because the problem is insoluble, but because they seem both to be terminally disabled by the disease of ideology, both religious and nationalist in character. Ideology makes impossible any objective debate. This is Laura Stovel’s point (“A debate long overdue”, August 17). Frog-marching these […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The Congress of South African Students (Cosas) in the Northern Province has threatened to disrupt the already troubled provincial education system if the province’s education head does not resign by the end of this week. Cosas says it will embark on a “militant and radical” action if Northern Province education superintendent […]
analysis Robert D Bullard Environmental racism affects individuals, groups or communities differentially, based on race or colour. It combines with public policies and industry practices to provide benefits for corporations, while shifting the costs to people of colour. It influences local land use, the enforcement of environmental regulations, the siting of industry and the areas […]
ATHLETICS Martin Gillingham Bruce Fordyce, South Africa’s most celebrated athlete, has thrown his weight behind the growing number of officials and athletes who are calling for answers to accusations that the sport’s top officials in this country are corrupt. It was claimed three months ago that more than R9-million had gone missing from Athletics South […]
Ngwako Modjadji Northern Province police are investigating charges of assault against the former chief minister of Lebowa, Nelson Ramodike, and Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa coordinator Ledikwa Mogoboya. Ramodike is also being investigated on charges of obstructing justice after he allegedly instructed police officers at Maake police station, near Pietersburg, not to open […]