Swapo claims that Wouter Basson was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Namibians are being refuted by a group of former detainees Tangeni Amupadhi An organisation of former detainees of the South West African Peoples’ Organisation (Swapo) this week distributed a list of about 700 people as evidence that many Namibians disappeared while in […]

South Africa’s Frans Botha is set to fight undisputed world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis on July 1. Gavin Evans looks at the former fireman’s checkered career My first glimpse of Francois Botha certainly left a favourable impression – though not of Botha himself. It was the final bout of the South African amateur championships in […]

l The legislation governing Setas is the Skills Development Act of 1998, and the Skills Development Act of 1999. Before this training was governed by the Manpower Training Act of 1981. The aim of the Skills Development Levy is to encourage companies who don’t offer training opportunities to raise skills among employees. l Setas are […]

There were many surprises at this year’s Cannes awards festival Fiachra Gibbons The controversial director Lars von Trier won the Palm d’Or in Cannes on Sunday night in the most flamboyant circumstances, insulting the head of the festival and assuring his leading lady – whom he called a “mad woman” only a fortnight ago – […]

The government’s legislation is a minefield of jargon, acronyms and bureaucracy Glenda Daniels If you are familiar with the SDA, SDLA, SAQA, ETQA, ETDP, Seta, NSF, NSA, and there’s more, you’re probably the only person in South Africa who is. Within companies confusion reigns over the implementation of the government’s bureaucratically heavy legislative plans for […]

Bandwidth (data speed and capacity) is not quite the gold dust of the internet era, but when a webpage takes five minutes to unfold in front of you, it can seem as scarce. So brush up on your electronic geology and discover how to get the best from your connection. Go to www.InternetTrafficReport. com for […]

And now Ethiopia and Eritrea are speaking the same language, writes Justin Pearce It began as a border dispute. But in the past two weeks, the Ethiopian army has swept through western Eritrea establishing effective control over almost a quarter of the country, before Eritrea agreed on Wednesday night to withdraw from the disputed territories […]

Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION It would seem that the recent and rather bizarre practice of apologising for historical wrongs is still on the increase. And flatly refusing to apologise for past sins has become almost as fashionable. People have realised that beating their breasts and slobbering on about what wrongs were committed before they were born […]

Marianne Merten Western Cape MEC for Education Helen Zille practises her Xhosa speech en route to open a computer room in Khayelitsha township. A last-minute call to a language teacher clarifies pronun- ciation and grammar as her driver Ishmael Hendricks negotiates the shack-lined roads and barely held together minibus taxis. Intlanganiso Senior Secondary School – […]

Dale McKinley CROSSFIRE For the past several years there has been a tendency among those on the left of the political spectrum (both domestically and internationally) to take a generally cautious approach when it comes to critically analysing the South African workers’ movement. However, the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) recent job-loss campaign […]