The truncated version of my letter, published under the provocative title: “Pious Seepe hasn’t read the literature on political parties” (October 26) contributed little to an important debate. My point was that Sipho Seepe’s sweeping claim that the “silence” of members of the African National Congress on important issues “is a reflection on either their […]

Matt Haig One thing to have survived the dot.com slump intact is the obsession for e-business acronyms, and B2T, referring to the business-to-teenage online market, is the latest. As teenagers are typically receptive to new technologies, companies targeting this market are being advised to use the Internet not only as a medium to communicate their […]

It is with much disgust that I note your lack of professionalism as an editor of a major South African publication when you tell Hansie Cronje to “fuck off”. A more objective and insightful view is what I would expect from an editor like yourself, but what should I be expecting from someone as crass […]

analysis Khadija Magardie Last week’s violence at the Zandspruit informal settlement in Gauteng, last month’s looting and burning of Somali-owned shops in Uitenhage and undoubtedly several undocumented attacks directed at foreigners, pose a serious question. Not whether locals become salivating mobs at the thought of a “kwere-kwere” moving in next door. But whether public education […]

I refer to the article by David Macfarlane titled: “We can’t afford silence” (October 26). I don’t understand why leading educationists in South Africa, the Education Department and Kader Asmal don’t just spell out the reason for the 85% drop in qualifying teachers, other than the effect of HIV/Aids. Government policy has caused the closure […]

Santos eliminated Ajax Cape Town to enter the semifinals of the Coca-Cola Cup Ntuthuko Maphumulo It took 90 minutes of regulation play, 29 minutes of extra time and a golden goal by Jean Marc Ithier on Wednesday to secure Santos a berth in the Coca-Cola Cup semifinal against Kaizer Chiefs this weekend. Ajax Cape Town […]

Jaspreet Kindra African National Congress officials at a top-level meeting last weekend tried to persuade the South African Communist Party to withdraw its support for the Congress of South African Trade Unions’s anti-privatisation campaign. The ANC pulled out its heavy artillery for the meeting between the two alliance partners on Sunday. Its delegation was led […]