Cape councillors told to quit NNP if they want to keep their jobs Marianne Merten In a further twist in the machiavellian manoeuvrings of Cape politics, the Democratic Alliance is forcing its New National Party councillors to resign from the NNP before the end of the year or lose their jobs. The DA is amending […]

Experience will be vital against the Australians Peter Robinson Considering all that is at stake in the pivotal second Test match that starts at St George’s Park on Friday, it might seem a little Irish to ask readers to focus on Kingsmead. But do yourselves a favour on Saturday: try to get hold of a […]

Management meddling was behind e.tv’s attack on the M&G, writes Drew Forrest ‘Excellence in journalism is the best protection for media freedom,” e.tv’s channel director Quraysh Patel told the Human Rights Commission (HRC) last year. Fine-sounding words but entirely hollow, given the channel’s crude attempt to knife the Mail & Guardian last week. Paradoxically, the […]

The United States’s invasion of Afghanistan and the support it enjoys among the (ignorant) US public makes for a classroom example of thought control in democratic society. Without threat of coercion, and at the risk of earning themselves the status of legitimate military targets, US networks (and Hollywood) have pledged their support for the US […]

Bongani Majola Tears of joy overwhelmed Monica Shandu when she accepted the overall award of Grower of the Year in the 2001 Umthombo Agricultural Finance Awards in Mount Edgecombe, Durban, last week. Shandu manages 1,5ha of umoba (Zulu for sugar cane). “Empilweni yami yonke angikaze ngilale ehotela kodwa ngilalile ngenxa yoMthombo [In my whole life […]

South Africa did not back African efforts to block a new “round” of world trade negotiations Evidence wa ka Ngobeni South Africa led a Southern African Development Community (SADC) breakaway from the consensus of key African countries this week at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar. There are fears that the […]

Neil Sonnekus Portuguese involvement in Southern Africa dates back to the mid-1500s. Bartholemeu Dias is credited as the first white man to kill an indigene in these parts and he did so with a crossbow at present-day Mossel Bay. The seafarers, however, preferred the calmer landing waters of Angola and Mozambique to our Cape of […]

Opposition parties cry “cover-up” and storm out of the National Assembly as the long-awaited report exonerates the government Mungo Soggot and Barry Streek The one-year forensic probe by law enforcement agencies into the arms package has cleared the government of any wrongdoing but uncovered a string of procedural irregularities in several parts of the deal. […]

report Paul Kirk Apartheid-era legislation, designed to allow a pariah state to conduct secret arms deals, gave the presidency the power to scrutinise and even censor the report of the joint investigation team into the multibillion-rand arms deal before it reached Parliament. The apparent use of this legislation is the latest in a series of […]

REVIEW Gavin Foster BMW M3 SMG, R405000 BMW 3 Series compact, from R165000 Switch off the Dynamic Stability Control. Move the shift lever to the right sequential mode. Select performance mode programme 6 on the centre console-mounted switch. Move the gearstick forward and hold it there. Now comes the ugly part plant your foot on […]