manager of the Department of Correctional Services … In general, it should be stated that homosexual behaviour in the general population has as many psychodynamic variations as heterosexual behaviour. For example, sometimes the relationship is caring and nurturing, sometimes it is abusive; sometimes it is consensual; sometimes it is forced; sometimes it is bartered for […]

Headmaster Hilton College Dear Mr Nicholson, I heard the other day that less privileged pupils are planning to storm the country’s private schools … Right now, I need to know if you have been overthrown by the proletariat. My boy, Clive, is looking for a new school and Hilton College would be out of the […]

SA Human Rights Commission Dear Mr Pityana, I hope yours is the correct agency to deal with my situation. Brenda and I have been married for some time now. And lately she has taken to violating my rights. The other day she deliberately poured hot tea into my lap. She has also tried to poison […]

Dear Mr Buthelezi, I would like to thank you for getting rid of the Nigerians at the bottom of my street. For the past seven months my wife, Brenda, has been nagging at me to go down and tell them to stop selling drugs … Anyway, last Tuesday the police came around and sent the […]

replies … On behalf of the President we thank you for your letter of 19 March 2001. Your concern for the poorest of the poor is noted and appreciated. You are quite correct when you state that Foot and Mouth disease does not pose a human threat. However, I have done some research and was […]

Barry Streek The processing of the arms deal report in Parliament this week highlighted the ruling African National Congress’s determination to get the report out of the way in the shortest possible time and to give it the best possible spin. Six different parliamentary committees are examining the report, effectively diluting the role of the […]

The general staff has reviewed your request. Whilst we are familiar with the ordeal you must be experiencing and sympathise with you we cannot for the following reasons resort to the form of training you suggest. The solution you recommend is generated purely from a male perspective and as such will most surely be rejected […]

THE Namibian Employers’ Federation (NEF) and the Public Service Union of Namibia (PSUN) yesterday expressed concern about the potential impact on the country’s economy of a mass stayaway planned for tomorrow. And the Teachers’ Union of Namibia (TUN) appealed to its members not to take part as they will not be paid for being absent […]

Pretoria | Thursday THE South African government is to buy back a 20% stake in the country’s national carrier, South African Airways, that it sold to Swissair two years ago, a government minister said on Wednesday. Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe said the government’s transport subsidiary Transnet would rebuy the shares for a sum still […]

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will issue new coins and notes next year to ease the process of making payments and take account of years of inflation, officials said on Wednesday. After two decades of falls in the value of the national currency, the naira, the highest denominated note in circulation in 1999 was […]