Barry Streek Despite spending R119,4-million on private security firms, last year Metrorail lost between R150-million and R170-million in fare evasion and a further R62,1-million in theft and vandalism. Minister of Transport Dullah Omar said R21,97-million was spent on repairs caused by theft and vandalism on trains and a further R40,3-million in theft and vandalism to […]
A new approach linking racism to power and self-interest is needed NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe Many analyses of racism proceed from an assumption that the eradication of racism and other forms of discrimination is in the interests of all. Yet despite a universal condemnation of discrimination, racism persists. Even the most successful persons of […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions has been asked to lay criminal charges against former members of the Northern Province Gambling Board for corruption and contravening the government’s regulations. This follows a two-year investigation by the special investigative unit (SIU), the government’s premier investigative organisation, and the Investigative Directorate for Serious […]
Ivory Park sets a shining example Michelle Nel Ivory Park is a sprawling township in Midrand, composed largely of informal dwellings, which is far ahead of other areas in terms of environmentally conscious living. And if the project has its way, the Johannesburg unicity will be soon be transformed by following the shining example set […]
Glenda Daniels “Lacking in local protests today is a failure to connect poverty in this country to the government’s economic policies,” says Dennis Brutus, South African poet and a leader in the international globalisation resistance movement. The radical intellectual and lecturer will be a speaker on the NGO panel on reparations at the United Nations […]
RUGBY Grant Shimmin in Wellington It sounded for all the world like the DJ on a Wellington radio station was clutching at straws. “I like to think of it as both Australia and South Africa losing,” he said of the Tri-Nations draw in Perth last weekend. All a little desperate, but for New Zealanders the […]
Stop water going down the drain Water Awareness Award Finalist: Rand Water’s Water Wise Living Campaign Michelle Nel In many Gauteng communities more than half the water used each day literally goes down the drain without achieving anything of value. This is what spurred Gauteng water utility Rand Water to develop its Water Wise Living […]
Serjeant at the bAR In 1995, 28-year-old Alix Carmichele was viciously attacked in the secluded beauty of Noetzie, a village known to the thousands of people who make their way to Plettenberg Bay and Knysna during the December holiday period. Her attacker was arrested, convicted and sentenced to an effective 12 and a half years. […]
MUNGO SOGGOT, Johannesburg | Friday THE Ministry of Justice says it will forge ahead with an amendment to the Constitution that will give Constitutional Court judges the same “life” tenure as the rest of the judiciary – despite opposition from some key judges. Cape judges are now preparing a memorandum on the amendment, which has […]
Investing in the Environment: Corporate Award Finalist: Cathay Pacific Niki Moore Take a group of youngsters from the crowded Philippines or high-rise Hong Kong, dump them in the vast African bush for a few days, and sit back.?Some kind of spiritual awakening is bound to happen.?And it does. “I’m from Manila,” says a bespectacled student.?”I’m […]