Feminist icon Doris Lessing says men are the new “silent victims” in the sex war. Yeah right BODY LANGUAGE Jeanette Winterson Men have found a new champion. Feminist icon and world-class novelist Doris Lessing has told the girls to lay off. She used her Edinburgh festival appearance to lament the cultural divide between men and […]

A SECOND LOOK Jaspreet Kindra The South African government last week announced there will be no limits on foreign ownership when the first of its parastatals Telkom goes up for sale. There has not been a whimper of protest from the anti-globalisation movement or those in the government who not so long ago professed to […]

Community Projects Award Finalist: Built Environment Support Group’s Msunduzi Project Niki Moore The “little boxes” springing up in their thousands as part of the government’s low-cost housing masterplan are often a major headache for municipalities.?Services and maintenance are expensive and very often the residents can’t, or won’t, pay. When services break down, the rows of […]

Schumacher joins Ascari in Ferrari book of greats, writes Richard Williams Tradition was not the first thing on Michael Schumacher’s mind when he signed his contract with the Scuderia Ferrari back in 1996. In fact it was not on his mind at all. He professed to know little and seemed to care less about the […]

Barry Streek Despite spending R119,4-million on private security firms, last year Metrorail lost between R150-million and R170-million in fare evasion and a further R62,1-million in theft and vandalism. Minister of Transport Dullah Omar said R21,97-million was spent on repairs caused by theft and vandalism on trains and a further R40,3-million in theft and vandalism to […]

A new approach linking racism to power and self-interest is needed NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe Many analyses of racism proceed from an assumption that the eradication of racism and other forms of discrimination is in the interests of all. Yet despite a universal condemnation of discrimination, racism persists. Even the most successful persons of […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions has been asked to lay criminal charges against former members of the Northern Province Gambling Board for corruption and contravening the government’s regulations. This follows a two-year investigation by the special investigative unit (SIU), the government’s premier investigative organisation, and the Investigative Directorate for Serious […]

Ivory Park sets a shining example Michelle Nel Ivory Park is a sprawling township in Midrand, composed largely of informal dwellings, which is far ahead of other areas in terms of environmentally conscious living. And if the project has its way, the Johannesburg unicity will be soon be transformed by following the shining example set […]

Glenda Daniels “Lacking in local protests today is a failure to connect poverty in this country to the government’s economic policies,” says Dennis Brutus, South African poet and a leader in the international globalisation resistance movement. The radical intellectual and lecturer will be a speaker on the NGO panel on reparations at the United Nations […]

RUGBY Grant Shimmin in Wellington It sounded for all the world like the DJ on a Wellington radio station was clutching at straws. “I like to think of it as both Australia and South Africa losing,” he said of the Tri-Nations draw in Perth last weekend. All a little desperate, but for New Zealanders the […]