A new committee of inquiry has been tasked with meeting the needs of the poorest of the poor Glenda Daniels An integrated and comprehensive social security system, to include the government’s current R18-billion social assistance programme, is on the cards now that a committee of inquiry has begun its work. The draft plan has to […]
Mark Ouma OLYMPICS In a country where rugby, cricket, and football are the best-paying sports disciplines – and monopolise media attention – it is unusual for anyone to abandon one of the “big three” for a so- called small sport. But a conscious decision to opt for athletics over rugby has produced one of South […]
Jaspreet Kindra Deputy President Jacob Zuma has intervened to save the African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party coalition in KwaZulu- Natal, following a threat by the provincial ANC leadership to walk out. Zuma stepped in following an IFP and ANC fall-out over whether municipalties in the province should have executive mayors or management committees […]
Congratulations to the following people, each of whom has won a set of Pamela Jooste’s three novels, courtesy of Random House:Brenda Mallinson, Grahamstown; Kgasago Hlware Frans, Atok; Iain Low, Rhodes Gift; Mzwandile Mati, Wynberg ; John Mofokeng, Witsieshoek. Your books are on the way!
Chris Buchanan LIFESTYLE Believe it or not: but there is an association for curtain makers and allied products. I would imagine by “allied products” they would mean the fellows who twist the little brass hooks that the curtains hang on. Why on earth am I telling you this? Well the Curtain Makers and Allied Workers’ […]
Chris Buchanan FOOD Did you know that there are more than 1E500 collectors of militaria in Johannesburg alone? Now these macabre collectors and civilians alike can converge on a funky new meeting spot in Parktown North. The War Store and Vargas Caf is aimed at collectors but is also drawing the attention of rave kids, […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi Former Mail & Guardian journalist Vusi Mona has been appointed editor of City Press with effect from January 2001. His appointment could signal a major editorial restructuring drive at the paper’s editorial section, aimed at increasing its stake in the highly contested Sunday market. Until his appointment Mona was serving as deputy to […]
Africa John Stremlau Political pundits across the United States predict a very close presidential election between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W Bush on November 7. Equally important and also too close to call are several local campaigns that will determine which party controls the US Congress. All 435 seats of the House of […]
Marianne Merten South Africa is battling to stop the illegal fishing of its Antarctic deep-water toothfish resources, which has cost the country a conservatively estimated $150- million in income over the past four years. And it has emerged that a 1998 Cabinet memo stipulating requirements for patrolling the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone around […]
links David Le Page The country’s largest providers of Internet services to home dial-up subscribers, M-Web, World Online and SAIX, are carrying links to child pornography websites on their servers. The links are part of the Usenet service, an Internet-wide system of virtual bulletin boards on which subscribers can place and respond to messages. Users […]