In your ear Thebe Mabanga Recently Metro fm unveiled a new line-up three weeks after appointing a new station manager, former marketing manager Lesley Ntloko. Both changes were made with good intentions but are flawed. First the line-up. The most exciting part is the arrival of Phat Joe on the midday show (noon-3pm). Phat Joe […]
Impeccable credentials REVIEW Gavin Foster Audi Allroad A6 2,7 T Quattro R392 250 Audi tells us not to use capital letters in the name of their all-wheel drive wagon, but “allroad” looks too silly for words, and anyway, they lost the war, so we’ll do it the English way. From here on, Allroad it is. […]
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Nature’s laws aren’t written in English NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe The bureaucratic, educational, criminal and justice systems in South Africa as well as commerce and industry use languages considered foreign by the majority of African people, bearing testimony to the unrelenting marginal status of African languages. The Constitution, recognising the diminished use and status […]
I refer to the deeply disturbing article “ANC ignores labour law” (August 3). The quotation by the African National Congress member of Parliament regarding the operations manager seems to confirm complaints from the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union of an authoritarian management style. This authoritarianism cannot but impact negatively on labour relations and […]
Selby Baqwa has thrown a strange spanner in the works of his own inquiry Mungo Soggot and Stefaans Brmmer The Office of the Public Protector has asked a star witness of the public inquiry into the arms deal to drop his civil case against the government if he wants to testify at the inquiry. The […]
A cricketer’s body was exhumed this week to discover the true cause of death, writes Paul Kirk Tertius Bosch, fast bowler and dentist, died aged 33 from a disease that afflicts fewer than one person in 100 000 and kills just 2% of its victims. Now a series of irregularities and the preliminary results of […]
South Africa have five Tests to get things right before they take on Australia Peter Robinson Whatever the claims of men such as Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara (not to mention wonderful bowlers like Courtney Walsh, Allan Donald and Shane Warne), it is difficult to dismiss the credentials of Steve Waugh as being simply the […]
be crushed’ Jaspreet Kindra Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana likens the loss of workers as the restructuring of public enterprises takes place to the sacrifice of human life during the African National Congress’s struggle against apartheid. “I was just remarking that the Reconstruction and Development Programme implies rebuilding and destroying apartheid structures. There is going […]
Ngwako Modjaji Henrietta Mqokomiso, who was evicted from her house in Alexandra township in June when bulldozers demolished her home of 12 years, is being given a new house by the Gauteng Department of Housing. The Mail & Guardian reported last month that the Legal Resources Centre was preparing a legal battle on behalf of […]