Appealing to JCI’s Mzi Khumalo has not helped the NUM in negotiating retrenchments with the mining house, writes Ferial Haffajee `WE expected more heart from someone like Mzi; it was a heartless decision,” says the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) deputy general secretary Gwede Mantashe of Mzi Khumalo, JCI’s new chair. JCI has decided it […]
adventure-seekers Stefaans Brmmer investigates one of the most successful and audacious projects in Umkhonto weSizwe’s armed fight against apartheid “UNDERSEAT storage for food supplies, camping equipment, tools, spares, etc,” was how a brochure touted the ample luggage capacity of the safari truck. What the brochure did not mention were the extra compartments – so secret […]
FRIDAY, 12.00AM: SPORTS Minister Steve Tswete will launch a Sports Against Crime initiative on June 26. The R8-million project will be a joint effort by the National Sports Council, the National Olympic Committee of South Africa and the Department of Sports. As part of the launch, a march against crime will proceed through Johannesburg, and […]
South African Aids patients who took part in drug trials have been dumped by the company that used them. Ruaridh Nicoll and Mungo Soggot report MORE than 150 Aids patients in South Africa were encouraged into a drug-testing programme run by the Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Roche after Johannesburg Aids experts falsely claimed they would be […]
THERE is a local link to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation – researcher Olga Visser, who recently announced she had a treatment for Aids, has received funding from the organisation for her work in the field of cryonics. Visser and other researchers based at the University of Pretoria last year demonstrated their research at Alcor, […]
There will be no grand release when the truth commission’s final report is tabled, writes Antjie Krog THE commissioner spreads the photos on the table. A slope of tamboekie grass, a wind- blue sky, some fresh soil. “He shows us the place … we dig … we find red topsoil mixed with black subsoil … […]
FINE ART: Dennis Mair AT an event that took place a few weeks ago, at the Obz(scene) Cafe in Observatory, Andrew Putter set up for a work-in- progress. It was a performance piece where he invited family, friends and people off the street to pass around and fit on a set of false teeth, while […]
Steady shifts are happening as mainstream South African radio hones in on an increasingly competitive market Hazel Friedman on Radio 702 PERCEPTION is reality, reality is a mind thing, and minds tend to change. Understand this principle and you’ll get a handle on the law governing 702-land and the drastic programme changes that took place […]
fund Mungo Soggot A TOP official in Gauteng’s Housing Department has confessed to stealing more than R8-million from the province’s low-cost housing kitty. Senior accountant Louis Botha handled the province’s disbursements from the National Housing Fund – the central reservoir of funds for the government’s low-cost housing drive. But lax controls within the provincial department […]
ANDREW WORSDALE previews a moving new radio documentary commemorating Youth Day A MASTERFUL radio documentary, The Story of June 16th , begins with a police loudhailer: “This gathering under section 48 of the Internal Security Act is defined as a riotous gathering and you are all ordered to disperse.” With the sound of gunfire laid […]