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 […]
Stop water going down the drain Water Awareness Award Finalist: Rand Water’s Water Wise Living Campaign Michelle Nel In many Gauteng communities more than half the water used each day literally goes down the drain without achieving anything of value. This is what spurred Gauteng water utility Rand Water to develop its Water Wise Living […]
Serjeant at the bAR In 1995, 28-year-old Alix Carmichele was viciously attacked in the secluded beauty of Noetzie, a village known to the thousands of people who make their way to Plettenberg Bay and Knysna during the December holiday period. Her attacker was arrested, convicted and sentenced to an effective 12 and a half years. […]
MUNGO SOGGOT, Johannesburg | Friday THE Ministry of Justice says it will forge ahead with an amendment to the Constitution that will give Constitutional Court judges the same “life” tenure as the rest of the judiciary – despite opposition from some key judges. Cape judges are now preparing a memorandum on the amendment, which has […]
Investing in the Environment: Corporate Award Finalist: Cathay Pacific Niki Moore Take a group of youngsters from the crowded Philippines or high-rise Hong Kong, dump them in the vast African bush for a few days, and sit back.?Some kind of spiritual awakening is bound to happen.?And it does. “I’m from Manila,” says a bespectacled student.?”I’m […]
Barry Streek Donald Woods was a bit of a chancer, but with his enormous talents, his charm, his ability to talk himself out of virtually any situation and some luck, he made an unforgettable mark on South African journalism. Few, if any, editors of a small daily newspaper in Africa have ever written an editorial […]
Sad and pathetic! The idea in the article “A marriage made in heaven” (August 17) that liberals in the Democratic Alliance are not “good” liberals because they dare to criticise the African National Congress is such a betrayal of liberal principles it makes my head spin! Liberalism is based on a belief in individual rights, […]
Thabo Mohlala Mxolisi Ntshikilana is one of the thousands of children in South Africa who does not have a home and spends all day begging on the streets. Unlike his counterparts, whose signs are poorly spelled and at the mercy of elements, his is well written and waterproof to boot. The top half his board […]
Glenda Daniels and Jaspreet Kindra Car manufacturers say South Africa’s reputation has been permanently damaged by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa wage strike. The total losses due to the strike is about R1-billion. Employers asked workers to go back to work and the president of the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of […]
A Soweto family is using traditional hair-plaiting skills to make ends meet Bongani Majola Ordinary women like Miriam Mothobeki make extraordinary tales. She is a matriarch of 72 years who has ensured the passage of an essential survival skill from generation to generation plaiting hair for a living. Though Mothobeki has long “retired” from ukuqhina […]