Drew Forrest The government and labour are on the brink of an agreement that would mean the dropping of a state plan to break up and concession a major part of Spoornet’s freight business to private operators. Earlier this week the Department of Labour’s head of restructuring, Leslie Maasdorp, suggested that the listing of SAA […]

a second look Stephen Corry The Mail & Guardian’s article on the Bushmen of Botswana (“Going back to their roots”, August 31) accurately reports that more than 1000 of them were removed from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and put in bleak resettlement camps where social and economic problems are rife in contrast to false […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Xhantilomzi Fishing, a black empowerment fishing company, launched its first vessel, Codesa 1, in August. The word “Xhantilomzi” refers to the main structural pillar of a traditional house, symbolic of a structure in which many participants could find a home. The company is owned by three groups: Rainbow Nation Fishing CC, […]

On the 20th birthday of the PC, the launch of Windows XP could be the end of DOS as we know it, says Jack Schofield At the end of last month the grey skies over Seattle turned blue after a week of rain, and a helicopter took off from the Microsoft campus with briefcases holding […]

A set of readers, written by teachers, will reach about 160 000 learners throughout South Africa Jubie Matlou Road safety awareness is one subject very close to Alice Segola’s heart. This is not surprising because this is a subject that affects many of her pupils at St Ann’s primary school in Atte-ridgeville, outside Pretoria. When […]

Justin Arenstein and Ongeri John The two South African Aids quacks who were booted out of Tanzania last week left behind a string of debts, including a R68 000 telephone bill. Jacques Zigi Visser and Themba Khumalo were deported last Saturday in the wake of mounting controversy about their role in trials of the discredited […]

Noam Chomsky The terrorist attacks were major atrocities. In scale they may not reach the level of many others, for example, Clinton’s bombing of the Sudan with no credible pretext, destroying half its pharmaceutical supplies and killing unknown numbers of people (no one knows, because the United States blocked an inquiry at the United Nations […]

WAYNE COLE, Singapore | Wednesday POLICY makers and central banks around the world are pulling out the stops to prevent the US terror attacks from so unhinging business and consumer confidence that a recession becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert McTeer spoke for many on Wednesday when he said it […]

STUART GRUDGINGS, Tokyo | Wednesday TRAUMATISED financial markets showed signs of steadying on Thursday, helped by a huge fund injection by world central banks in response to the vicious attack on US power centres. But deep uncertainty as well as horror at the human cost ensured trade remained very light and stock markets were still […]

CHRISTOPHER MICHAUD, New York | Friday THE developer who led the group that bought a 99-year lease of the trade center said he was determined to help rebuild the complex, as well as 7 World Trade Center, a neighboring building that also collapsed, the Wall Street Journal said in its online edition on Friday. “It […]