THURSDAY, 11.00AM: RESTRUCTURING and the downward economic cycle are the major contributors to the current trend of job cuts, a survey by labour analysts Andrew Levy & Associates released on Wednesday shows. According to the survey, in which 165 companies with 315000 employees were interviewed, retrenchments will not abate for some time, as many companies […]
Ann Eveleth A Pretoria father is suing the government for failing to protect his three-year-old daughter who was raped by a state mental patient who wandered into their neighbourhood. The Pretoria High Court will be asked next month to decide whether the state has a constitutional duty to protect the security of its citizens. Westfort […]
Larry Neumeister Bloomberg, the global financial news service, has filed a lawsuit against the unidentified people who posted and promoted a bogus report last week on the Internet that boosted the value of a California company’s stock 31% before the hoax was exposed. The lawsuit will help Bloomberg learn the real identities behind the screen […]
Peter Dickson Just two months before the election, Eastern Cape chiefs, whose influential vote is the hotly contested key to victory for the African National Congress or the United Democratic Movement in the densely populated rural Transkei, have been given a massive salary increase that will cost taxpayers R30-million a year. Eastern Cape Premier Makhenkesi […]
Westerners, whiteys, honkies, call them what you will, are often accused by Africans of a lack of understanding of their culture. While black South Africans have a measure of access to “white culture”, albeit as servants in houses, or in a corporate or industrial environment, white South Africans have little access to African lifestyles. Dancer […]
Yeoville has long been known as South Africa’s pre-eminent bohemian enclave. But today Yeovillites fear for the future of their suburb. Overcrowding, informal trading, unlicensed nightclubs and rampant drug dealing have come to represent a widespread social unravelling. To save Yeoville from falling victim to Johannesburg’s inner-city urban decay, the Yeoville Community Development Forum (YCDF) […]
RWANDAN former information minister Eliezer Niyitegeka pleaded not guilty on Thursday before an international court trying him in Arusha, Tanzania, on charges of genocide, the Hirondelle press agency reported. The charge sheet at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) includes six counts of genocide, intent to commit genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of […]
Author Marlene van Niekerk takes Shaun de Waal on a tour of Triomf, the ‘white’ suburb built on the ruins of Sophiatown and the setting for her searing novel of the same name.
KING Mswati III of Swaziland said on Thursday he will not be abolishing the death penalty, as capital punishment remains an effective deterrent to crime. Speaking in Mbabane, Mswati said serious offences such as ritual killings would soar should the death penalty be scrapped. In the meantime, he added, the harshness of the penalty will […]
David le Page Windows 95 and 98 are riddled with excellent functions which Microsoft, in its wisdom, has never gone out of its way to tell you about. Take advantage of some of them in-between your next few system crashes. If you’re not clear on how to get to the functions mentioned, try using Help […]