Minorities don’t have the benefit of their interests officially being taken care of, writes Koos Malan When the Democratic Alliance was formed last year, some believed, rather optimistically, that South Africa was firmly on its way to a fully-fledged two-party system. This development was supposed to place South Africa in the company of the best […]

Sandile Ngidi The fledgling community radio movement was dealt a blow last month with the closure of the South African Community Radio Network (Sacrin). Sacrin was an initiative by the Congress of South African Trade Unions Centre for Democratic Communications, which was launched in 1997 to provide a satellite link-up platform for community radio stations […]

Companies are stalling on repatriating their export earnings Mungo Soggot and David Macfarlane A leading South African economist, SG Securities Nico Czypionka, says South African companies listed offshore are maximising their returns by taking their cash flows offshore. Czypionka is referring to outflows to South African companies listed abroad, which, he says, “are a major […]

Harriet Mazansky of Boston is shaken by South Africans’ America bashing (December 7). She needs to know the real bad news: the attack on our currency has made us feel that elements within the globe-gobbling superpower have made themselves our enemies. If someone tries to mug us on the street, we shoot to kill lest […]

From page 48 players try to rattle their cage, the more they betray their own self doubts. Even Adam Gilchrist, the calm, sensible vice-captain, got it embarrassingly wrong before the Test started. “Every time we play against South Africa it is regarded as the world championship,” he said, promisingly. “There is a lot riding on […]

Khadija Magardie and Esa Conning The art of qiraat or recitation of Islams holy book, the Quran, is as old as the Quran itself. Muslims regard the Quran, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century, as the pure, unadulterated Word of God and place strict injunctions on the believers to both recite and […]

Drew Forrest Even Sipho Pityanas detractors in the Department of Foreign Affairs concede he is a superb administrator whose departure almost certainly to the private sector will be a loss to the department and the government. One of the longest-serving new-order mandarins he has been a director general since 1995 Pityana refuses to discuss reports […]

Cats Opera House,Artscape TheatreCentre Until January 27 Naked Boys Singing Warehouse Theatre Until December 23 and from December 26 to 31 Those cognoscenti who despise musical theatre complain the genre can be reduced to a few simple formulae. Well, it cant: take Cats, Andrew lloyd Webbers smash hit, which has finally made it here. The […]

David Macfarlane Unisas controversial council is continuing its defiance of the government to the bitter end. It rejects the auditor generals recent report on the remuneration of councillors and is resisting Minister of Education Kader Asmals intention to dissolve the council. This week also brought further upheavals among senior management: vice-principal (tuition) Professor Simon Maimela […]