Howard Barrell Government plans for the biggest shake-up of the civil service in decades will be unveiled next month when Minister of Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi tables new pay and retrenchment packages. Fraser-Moleketi briefed the Cabinet in Cape Town on Wednesday on personnel audits done by provinces and central government departments. The audits […]
Grant Shimmin BOWLS If the World Bowls 2000 tournament, which draws to a close with the singles final at Marks Park, Johannesburg, tomorrow afternoon, has achieved one thing, it’s to dispel to the casual observer the image of the sport as “old man’s marbles”. To the ardent follower, the presence of a healthy crop of […]
Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola, the three giants of cellular phones, this week joined forces to create a standard for delivering secure transactions on mobile handsets by 2001. The move is designed to fuel the rise of mobile commerce, such as banking or buying train tickets with a cellphone – a process the three companies say […]
Ryan Coetzee CROSSFIRE When the Democratic Party first released All Power to the Party, a description and analysis of the African National Congress’s Cadre Policy and Deployment Strategy, many major newspapers simply ignored it. The one publication that devoted an editorial to the document rejected our analysis and, bizarrely, pronounced us “guilty of McCarthyism” for […]
The leader of the IFP, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, has been hit with yet another scandal Paul Kirk Government intelligence agencies have been probing allegations that Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the minister of home affairs and president of the Inkatha Freedom Party, has been receiving large amounts of cash from illegal casinos. According to confidential documents compiled by the […]
Ronald Suresh Roberts CROSSFIRE The Mail & Guardian abandoned its sassy and irreverent best self last week, instead offering readers an editorial full of artless bombast (“The M&G’s not for burning”). Why? According to the editorial, some participants in the Human Rights Commission (HRC) media hearings have defamed all whites as “intrinsically guilty of racism”, […]
After 24 years of vicious abuse at the hands of her husband, justice may finally be done for Anne Ribets Charlene Smith Anne Ribets is tiny and well groomed. Her appearance belies the fact that for 24 years her husband – now ex-husband – has regularly beaten stabbed and attacked her. He once allegedly abducted […]
Anthony Browne Directors of BP Amoco, the world’s largest oil producer, will this week face a revolt by shareholders who want investment diverted to renewable energy. The annual meeting will vote on a groundbreaking resolution urging the firm to abandon its Northstar oilfield in Alaska and reinvest the money in solar power. The resolution was […]
In Saron, an ANC-ruled town, the mayor and his deputy are fighting for their political lives Marianne Merten Most mornings a handful of protestors converge on the modest white municipal building next to the post office in Saron, a quiet hamlet at the foot of the Swartruggens Mountains in the Western Cape. They are there […]
Howard Barrell The African National Congress is showing its first public signs of embarrassment over its submission to the Human Rights Commission’s (HRC) panel on the media which has drawn a mixture of sharp criticism, threats of legal action and ridicule from a variety of newspapers. In a curious statement on Wed-nesday, the ANC reiterated […]