Did the damp masses who attended last weekend’s South Africa Freedom Day Concert go to celebrate African democracy or were they just there for the stars? Adam Welz The South Africa Freedom Day Concert on the Square was the first major concert ever to be held in Trafalgar Square. The organisers made full use of […]
David Beresford Another Country A wonderfully talented hockey-player at my boarding school went into hospital for a minor operation to relieve a pinched nerve and returned with one leg missing. A cousin who badly fractured an ankle during a rugby match hobbled out of a clinic sporting a broken jaw, having been dropped while being […]
For eight months after it was opened four years ago the Ethembeni Care Centre stood empty. Today it offers much-needed help to those in crisis from long-term illness Niki Moore From the outside, it looks like any ranch-style colonial home in the middle of a timber plantation in Zululand. An electric fence, huge spreading canopy […]
UP to 1_000 elephants that were due to be culled in terms of the Kruger National Park?s conservation management plan will be given a new lease of life in neighbouring Mozambique. About 100 Kruger elephants are scheduled to be released in Mozambique between October and the end of the year, while the rest will be […]
Stephen Gray pays tribute to poet Guy Butler, who died last week aged 83 The death of Guy Butler on 26 April in Grahamstown was not unexpected. He had been monitoring a leaky heart valve since the early 1980s, when he bowed out as professor of English at Rhodes University. Yet he enjoyed a productive […]
Glenda Daniels Had the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) been invited to the African National Congress’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting when the alleged “plot” to oust President Thabo Mbeki was first discussed, the debacle, which has seriously embarrassed the government nationally and internationally, might not have happened. An official of the National […]
Bruce Whitfield When interviewed on Classic Business shortly after taking over as Specialised Outsourcing (Outsors) chief executive in March last year, Dave McLean was on top form. Upbeat about the firm’s prospects and promising to continue previous management’s policy of promptly releasing quarterly results, he vowed to continue the firm’s rapid growth strategy and insisted […]
Grant Shimmin Don’t go wasting that money you were going to put down on the Cats or the Sharks to win the Super 12 this year. The Hurricanes are going to step in and extend the Kiwi domination of the tournament in the closing weeks. At least that’s the opinion of one Doug Golightly. If […]
up Marianne Merten Under pressure from civil society, the Department of Labour is speeding up the investigation into how best to include domestic and seasonal workers in the proposed revised unemployment benefits. Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana could announce the probe as soon as mid-May with regulations to follow within 12 months of the Unemployment […]
Stefaans Brmmer An undeclared intelligence unit based at Luthuli House, the African National Congress national headquarters in Johannesburg, played a key role unearthing the “plot” against President Thabo Mbeki. The unit, which appears to report directly to Mbeki in his capacity as ANC president, was deployed as early as 1998 to investigate former Mpumulanga premier […]