This past week has held a message for the men and women at the top of the African National Congress. It has been delivered by two apparently unrelated events. That warning is this: that the people of this country will resist, and publicly shame, the ANC leadership’s attempts to curtail debate. There are a number […]
Ufrieda Ho Up to 45% of drug cases are being tossed out of court a staggering statistic that indicates rot in the law enforcement system. This finding is drawn from statistics in six provinces, excluding the Western, Eastern and Northern Cape. It reveals a system dogged by a lack of integrity and competence by police […]
obituary: Ken Tyrell The world of Formula One is mourning the death of Ken Tyrrell, the one-time timber merchant who became one of the sport’s major team owners. Tyrrell, who has died of cancer at his home in Surrey, was 77. With Bernie Ecclestone, the late Lotus founder Colin Chapman and Frank Williams, Tyrrell was […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo Two of the top teams in the Premier Soccer League will face each other in a “best of the best” BP Top 8 final on Saturday at FNB stadium for the R1-million prize money. Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs are no strangers to million-rand prize money competitions; Kaizer Chiefs won the Rothmans Cup twice […]
Grant Shimmin in Wellington For the neutral, the Tri-Nations could scarcely be finishing on a more exciting note, with a winner-take-all clash at the scene of one of the great encounters in modern Test rugby. Last year Sydney’s Stadium Australia was preparing to host the Olympic Games when the All Blacks and Wallabies opened their […]
GOVANMBEKI Govan Mbeki’s death this week ends one of the longest and most heroic lives in liberation politics. Govan Mvuyelwa Mbeki was born in 1910 in Nqamakwe, Transkei, the son of a deposed chief. After attending various Methodist mission schools he completed a BA at Fort Hare in 1937 and subsequently worked in the Transkei […]
Barry Streek The Democratic Alliance has put Cape Town’s controversial mayor, Peter Marais, on compulsory leave and suspended two DA councillors in the city for their role in the “streetgate” affair. The councillors now face a criminal investigation for fraud, which stems from an inquiry by advocate Willem Heath into the saga. Heath has recommended […]
The union federation has put forward seven principles it deems necessary for informing the Bill to equitably reimburse pension-fund members Ngwako Modjadji The Congress of South Trade Unions (Cosatu) is calling for the estimated R80-billion pension “surplus” to be restituted to beneficiaries, backdated to the 1980s when the federation advocated a “migration” from pension to […]
Pressure groups gathered in Durban for the NGO Forum that precedes the main conference Khadija Magardie One can always, legend has it, tell a NGO worker just look at the hair. Though the face of activism in all its forms has changed, and the typical activist is now as at home in a pair of […]
Paul Kirk Despite assurances to the contrary, one of the Big Brother contestants has not been cleared of all charges relating to his illegal possession of a machine gun and an unlicensed 9mm pistol. This week it emerged that Bradford Wood has a murky history having in the past been charged with several crimes including […]