As he gets the upper hand in his party’s internal war, Tony Leon is turning the screws on his deputy Howard Barrell and Marianne Merten Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon is demanding the complete dissolution of the New National Party, and his senior colleagues are insisting that NNP leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk faces disciplinary action. […]

Bongani Majola Vodacom has chosen unlikely beneficiaries for its corporate social investment programme prisoners. Together with the Readucate Trust, a Section 18a educational and literacy non-profit organisation, the Vodacom Foundation has ploughed R250 000 into a basic literacy training programme that is envisaged to benefit at least 600 young prisoners in Gauteng. The donation by […]

CRICKET Peter Robinson So this is how the weekend went: on Friday news broke that Mfuneko Ngam had suffered yet another stress fracture, this time of his right tibia; on Saturday Allan Donald pulled up with a stomach-muscle strain; on Monday Nantie Hayward announced his return to international cricket with a fair bit of pace […]

Glenda Daniels The National Union of Mine- workers (NUM) has thrown its weight behind the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ planned economic summit, insisting it is wrong to brand labour’s economic differences with the government as stemming from an ”ultra-leftist” tendency. This is significant, given the NUM’s long-standing support for the African National Congress. […]

Rob Davies The global trend in corporates over the past two decades has been the involvement of staff in volunteer programmes aimed at community development. While overseas companies have long since paved the way, many South African companies have been slow to invest capital or staff in programmes such as these. Since 1998 Old Mutual […]

I am dumbstruck by the venom of Rhoda Kadalie’s personal attack on me (”We are not so dumb, Mr Rasool”, October 19). The last time that we crossed swords was also on the issue of race, but at least then one could still debate some concrete issues. In this letter however, she misses the boat […]

analysis Shamil Jeppie The putative war between Islam and the West that is recycled these days in the media is a product of the fertile imaginations of ”Islamic” and ”Western” ideologists. If this ”clash of civilisations” has any history, then it is very recent. What appears to be a fact of life with a centuries-old […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Sasol’s corporate social investment (CSI) strategy goes beyond a moral commitment to poverty alleviation ”it represents the earnest desire on our part to understand and address the needs of underprivileged communities in which we have an involvement”, says Masechaba Mape, manager: corporate social investment. Sasol therefore aims to take a leading […]

Thuli Nhlapo The apartheid system was inhumane, but some people have managed to dig very deep to find good in the dismantling of family structures. When men from a remote rural Mdlankomo village in Mpumalanga had no choice but to leave the tourist dorpie to work in gold and coal mines, scores of women and […]

David Shapshak This week’s launch of Microsoft’s flagship operating system, Windows XP, is either a blessing or curse, depending on your stance on what the world’s largest software manufacturer is up to. What is certain is that Microsoft’s launch is probably the most controversial release in an already controversial company’s history. But Microsoft is not […]