Hestrie Cloete and the men’s 4x100m relay team brought joy but there are still many problems in South African athletics Martin Gillingham Even if you’re one of the sports lovers who thought South Africa’s athletes did well at the world championships in Edmonton, there’s no disputing one fact: they did it in spite, rather than […]
Barry Streek All people in the welfare sector will in future be granted three days extra leave on full pay for every Sunday worked and be limited to an average of 15 hours overtime in a week. Welfare workers will be paid an ordinary wage for overtime but by agreement with their employer they will […]
Minister of Social Development Zola Skweyiya described the suspension of disability grants as "not only illegal, but sinful".
Bongani Majola Vista University’s core functions seem to have been stretched to breaking point by the exodus of staff who took voluntary severance packages last week. On its East Rand campus the morale of the remaining staff is at an all-time low after the campus principal also left at the beginning of the month. Two […]
Barry Streek Cape Town’s valuable collection of orchestral scores and instruments, which was under threat of being sold to settle the liquidation debts of the city’s defunct philharmonic orchestra, has been saved and will be placed under the control of a board of trustees. The recently formed Cape Philharmonic Orchestra made an offer to the […]
BODY LANGUAGE Khadija Magardie I’m still not sure what to think of a Chicago woman who recently made headlines for her “ono-manism”. The hapless dame so impressed the court that she was spared jail time for fleecing her former bosses of thousands of dollars. And no, this is not about someone with a thing for […]
PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday FROM June 1 last year to July 4 this year, 106 police were dismissed from the South African Police Service in KwaZulu-Natal. Seven of them were convicted of murder. These figures were released last week by the minister of safety and security in response to a question in Parliament about […]
Stefaans Brmmer and Mungo Soggot One of the men implicated in a bribe scandal that rocked the state oil industry was this week made chairperson of Armscor. Seth Phalatse has admitted he took a $20 000 (about R165 000) cash bribe in May last year. He subsequently returned the money and, months later, helped blow […]
Jaspreet Kindra Former African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) leader James Nkambule has quit the party. Nkambule, who is facing charges of defrauding the state, was assisting Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete to unearth a plot to unseat President Thabo Mbeki. He says that while he feels “used” and “betrayed”, he will continue […]
A kaleidoscope of people are getting ready to participate in protests before and during the World Conference against Racism Khadija Magardie The frenetic pace of activity in Geneva around the finalisation of the draft declaration for the World Conference against Racism is being matched by those working around the clock to touch up the controversial […]