FRIDAY, 11.00AM IN spite of a 19% increase in the manufacturing production index, the sector cut a further 14 000 jobs during the first quarter of this year, according to latest figures from the Central Statistical Service. The manufacturing sector has been in a squeeze for some time, and nearly 50 000 workers lost their […]
Mukoni T Ratshitanga THE Ministry of Education is backing a proposal that hundreds of thousands of university, college and technikon students be compelled to carry out community service. The South African Students’ Congress (Sasco), which first put forward the proposal, this week announced it will “vigorously push” the scheme, called “RDP Students’ Brigades”. The ministry […]
Writer Timothy Garton Ash was a student and journalist in Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s. Recently he returned to the city to find the file kept on him by East Germany’s secret police. In this extract from his forthcoming book The File, he tells of finding the buff-coloured binder detailing his activities – and […]
JACQUIE GOLDING-DUFFY reports on Radio Highveld’s new advert rates SOME advertisers are outraged by the astronomical hikes in advertising rates by Radio Highveld, the radio station that was bought from the SABC for a whopping R320- million. The days when radio was a cheap medium have long gone, but with the recent increases introduced by […]
Ferial Haffajee `NOW my friends it is time for you to come to your friend in order to understand. The cattle have udders, come and milk them!” It is 1899, and around the reef which was to become Johannesburg touts put up notices like this one to entice black labourers on to the mines. At […]
Financial planning can be a minefield for the unaware. Ferial Haffajee looks at the basics WITH new products appearing on the market almost daily, the potential investor is easily overwhelmed. Between the bulls and bears, trusts, equities, money market funds, and now offshore options, personal financial planning can become a minefield for the unaware. So, […]
The plot to overthrow Mobutu Sese Seko originated not in the Congo but in Rwanda, before the campaign actually began. John Pomfret reports from Kigali, Rwanda RWANDA’S powerful Defence Minister Paul Kagame has acknowledged for the first time his country’s key role in the overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko in the Democratic Republic of Congo, […]
Authorities appear to be baffled by the rise of one of the scariest illnesses around, writes Ann Eveleth THE horrible death of a West Rand man from a sickness linked to the one which sparked Britain’s “mad cow disease” scare prompted a flurry of anxious denials this week from South African authorities. Ironically, the authorities’ […]
Wally Mbhele GENERAL Bantu Holomisa this week blasted the African National Congress’s “witch- hunt” of its Womens’ League leader, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and its silence on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s investigation into her. His attack followed what seems to be an increasingly futile search by the commission for a key witness, Katiza Cebekhulu, who can […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM: MICHAEL CHEESMAN on Thursday increased his overall lead by 5 min 22 sec, in the second stage of the KWV Berg river marathon. Cheesman finished second and pre-race favourite Graham Bird won the second stage. Bird, who finished ninth in the first round on Wednesday, clocked in 3:08:51 to Cheeman’s 3:08:52. Donnie Malherbe […]