The community is said to be undergoing an identity crisis which has become more profound recently Howard Barrell Indian South Africans feel more deeply alienated from the government and the country’s political institutions than any other racially or ethnically defined community, according to a recent opinion survey. The surprise is that they have a significantly […]

When it comes to filling senior posts in the judiciary, a judge’s ability is no longer determined by the number of gray hairs on his head Khadija Magardie When the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), the body tasked with appointing judges, met this week to interview its latest batch of candidates, its preoccupation with “transformation” appeared […]

The workers’ compensation system fails to protect those it claims to serve Paula Howell Khadija Magardie’s article “Workers’ fund crippled by ‘steady rot’” (October 13 to 19) was an accurate description of what is happening in workers’ compensation. There is, however, a more fundamental problem, which is whether the current system can adequately serve the […]

The collapse of LeisureNet has only highlighted problems that have long been characteristic of an image-driven industry David Le Page Hard-selling, quick fixes and steroids. That’s the eternal tale of the fitness industry, which encapsulates the recent downfall of LeisureNet, custodians through the Health & Racquet Club (H&RC) group to many of the nation’s less […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni and Peter Dickson The Eastern Cape MEC for Health, Monwabisi Goqwana, has been quietly running a private ambulance services company linked to a string of hospitals in the province. Goqwana, who was appointed after the 1999 general elections, is a director of the company Pobedi Ambulance Services, which provides services to […]

Glenda Daniels A SECOND LOOK I spent last weekend agonising about whether to vote in the local government elections. As a black South African, how can one not vote after so many people have made sacrifices, suffered enormous hardship and even died to make a democratic South Africa possible? From this point of view the […]

Thebe Mabanga investigates the pros and cons of immigration I am at the Il Pavignione, on the 10th floor of the Michelangelo hotel at Johannesburg’s property hotbed, Sandton. Excuse me for stating the obvious, but this place drips with opulence. Not just the credit-fuelled kind found a few floors below us at the Sandton City […]

Gavin Foster paralympics An agreement signed during the 2000 Paralympics now drawing to a close in Sydney might finally bring about what most people mistakenly think already exists – the unification of the Olympic Games and the Paralympics. Just 16 athletes, most of them crippled World War II veterans, competed in the first disabled games […]

Riaan Wolmarans ‘Do it your way” reads the ad that the Pride committee has published this year, and as ever, the 11th annual Pride activities will see gay and lesbian people from all over the country doing it their way -be it drag, leather, dancing or simply joining a float in the Pride march. Unlike […]

SA chemical and explosives group AECI said this week it was closer to concluding the disposal of four business units in a R300m deal to Chemical Services Ltd (Chemserve). The four AECI businesses are Industrial Urethanes, Kynochem, AECI Aroma/Fine Chemicals and AECI coatings. They supply specialised chemical products or services to their respective markets. ”For […]