A SECOND LOOK Jaspreet Kindra The Democratic Alliance is not a party of true liberals, claims African National Congress spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama. This is the ANC’s major problem with the official opposition for “if the Democratic Party and the DA believed in liberalism it would not demonise a democratically elected government”. Exposing that “problem” are […]
Jubie Matlou reviews new telecommunication technology Wireless Telephony Technologies l Second-generation technology: Global System for Mobile Telephony (GSM) current technology for mobile telephony. Based on digital technology with voice and limited text/fax provisions. l Third-generation technology: Basically upgrades a cellphone into a personal computer, compatible with satellite signals that enable a consumer to make or […]
About 98% of the Cape Town Opera choir is black, writes Barry Streek Opera in South Africa, especially in the “racist” Western Cape, has suddenly gone black. In the process, the image of opera as elite, Eurocentric art and entertainment has all but disappeared. Today 98% of the Cape Town Opera choir is black, as […]
President Robert Mugabe’s speech on Saturday made it quite clear that he is becoming increasingly willing to resort to anarchy and violence in order to gain political popularity and retain power. His warning to farmers that they must not retaliate or expect police protection when confronted with violence by axe-wielding mobs of thugs bent on […]
The Zimbabwean army is to be deployed on white-owned farms to “speed up” redistribution of land and to “protect” black settlers from violent farmers, says the government. Land Minister Joseph Made told the state-owned Herald newspaper that the military is being called in because the pace of farm seizures is too slow. Harare is portraying […]
Barry Streek The minister of agriculture and land affairs is to be given sweeping powers to intervene if she believes any new land use application “prejudicially affects the national interest”. The Land Use Management Bill, published recently in the Government Gazette, gives Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza the right to overturn decisions […]
The government says it is working on a strategy to improve the delivery of much-needed systems Barry Streek Minister of Education Kader Asmal has disclosed in Parliament that two-thirds of South African schools (17907 schools) are without adequate sanitation and 11,7% (3188 schools) do not have any sanitation at all. There were 27148 schools in […]
The South African Women’s Arts Festival could have done with a little more humour and less exclusivity Thebe Mabanga It was not so much art with feminine chic but rather art with feminine grit as vain plain Janes, poets and prancers came out to play at the fifth offering of the South African Women’s Arts […]
right to reply Pregs Govender The Mail & Guardian, in its article on the gender summit (“Gender activists slam government”, August 10), incorrectly reported that “funding was withdrawn from a parliamentary committee on women”. This was a factual inaccuracy that detracted from the crucial fact that it is gender budgeting that has been removed from […]
The Boks are settling in by sticking to their traditional way of playing the game Andy Capostagno It is a strange business when one home win can make so much difference to a team. Suddenly the talk is not of the impossibility of winning away from home in the Tri-Nations, but of the local support […]