high court roost? Sergeant at the Bar This column raised the issue of the relationship between the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal during the watch of Dullah Omar over the Ministry of Justice. Now, as appeared from a report in last week’s Mail & Guardian, (“Maduna toys with merger of top courts”, […]
Sharon Krum A Second Look Can a poor, black woman who had an abortion in Kentucky in 1974 take any credit for the spectacularly low crime rates being chalked up in the United States today? According to a controversial new study into the impact of legalised abortion on American crime, this hypothetical woman can stand […]
Barry Streek A legal nightmare is about to be visited on South Africans in the form of a draft law which will severely curtail press freedom and put the onus on individuals to disprove charges of discrimination made against them. It will also outlaw affirmative action advertisements and give men the legal right to join […]
Howard Barrell Over a Barrel On a visit to Nigeria in 1997, I was among 15 people who got off the British Airways flight from London at Kano, the West African country’s second city. The other passengers flew on to Lagos, or to Accra in Ghana. As we walked into Kano’s arrivals hall, about 30 […]
Draft legislation aims to change the way South Africans think about water, writes Saliem Fakir If you have intentions of expanding your swimming pool, or – as they do in Namibia when the heat is on – putting a sprinkler on your roof to cool you down, you’ll have to take into account the attempts […]
says Gates Bill Gates claims the aim of the United States government’s anti-trust action is `to embarrass us every day’, writes Jane MartinsonBill Gates, the world’s richest man and chair of Microsoft, has accused the United States government of conducting a show trial against his software company in its landmark monopoly case, which re-opened in […]
An investigation has been launched into the arrests of six ANC members last month. Marianne Merten reports National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka has appointed former Transvaal attorney general Jan d’Oliveira and police Deputy National Commissioner Solly Lavisa to probe last month’s brief detention of six leading Western Cape African National Congress members. The […]
Karlin Lillington Netwatch So what do you regret? Air yours or read what others are sorry they did or didn’t do at www. regretsonly.com. The site is part of a writer’s project to publish a book of regrets, and he promises not to reveal yours until the book comes out. He features some historical names […]
As two locally produced films are released simultaneously this week, Andrew Worsdale examines the state of the troubled South African film industry The South African film industry is forever on the verge of finding itself as local film-makers spend more and more time together in think-tanks and pressurising already stressed-out government departments. A welcome break […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby Sometimes apparently atrociously bad ideas deserve a second look. It happens all the time in diet-advice. One minute they tell you eating eggs is bad for your blood vessels, the next they’re saying that if you don’t eat at least two eggs at every meal your blood vessels will close up […]