Good journalism is grounded in a dislike of special privilege, a contempt for anyone who suggests that they stand above the law, a deep-rooted scepticism of special pleading of any kind. This being the case, journalists can hardly claim professional privileges which other citizens do not enjoy; the rights and responsibilities of the media and […]
Written some 90 years ago, a group of ‘not quite right’ poems by the young TS Eliot has been rediscovered. ERIC GRIFFITHS examines the verses IN 1927, TS Eliot politely turned down a batch of manuscript poems which the young WH Auden had sent to Faber & Faber, where the senior poet was an editor: […]
Larry Elliott reports on the cynical attempt to blame economic failings on the poor and unemployed ONE of the things we have had to learn over the past 17 years is that nothing is ever the British government’s fault. The Arabs and the unions were to blame for the first Thatcher recession. The Germans and […]
Riquadeau Jacobs Kwazulu-Natal learned this week that in the early 1990s it had its own version of the infamous Vlakplaas torture camp at Camperdown in the Midlands. Suspended policeman Colonel Andy Taylor has been fingered as the man who headed the camp — effectively a subsidiary of Vlakplaas — in an investigation by a magistrate […]
A police intelligence document behind the recent hysteria over South Africa’s ‘Islamic extremist threat’ is anything but intelligent, writes Ann Eveleth The leaked police “working document” at the centre of a row between police and Beeld newspaper is the work of old-order police spies who don’t know the difference between Muslims and Hindus. Leaked to […]
Africa urgently needs a coherent policy to link information to community needs, writes Aspasia Karras The Technology Foresight study, recently completed in Britain, attempts to urgently determine where and how the country can gain the competitive edge in the increasingly chaotic global market. This process is probably even more significant for South Africa, yet the […]
The All Blacks have the best team on the field and off it, and South Africa’s coach doesn’t seem to be able to make a plan to counter their winning ways RUGBY: Jon Swift IT WOULD be funny if it wasn’t so tragic that, staring down the barrel of a humiliating series white-wash, Springbok coach […]
CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser DESPITE the fact that it is said to be staring death in the face, the National Symphony Orchestra still managed to end its winter season on a cheerful and humorous note. Conducted by Peter Louis van Dijk, the orchestra sent up two stalwarts of the classical music repertoire — the oratorio […]
The tie-up with Kagiso Invesment Trust does not mean overnight changes at Perskor. The process of transformation will take time, Eric Molobi tells Madeleine Wackernagel Eric Molobi, head of Kagiso Trust Investments, is not about to upset nine months of delicate negotiations with strong-arm tactics: “We have no immediate plans to change the existing management […]
Julian Drew THE opening ceremonies of both the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games used Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech to portray the lofty ideals to which they aspire. But it is the Paralympics and their constant struggle against the stereotyping of disabled people with which King would probably have identified most. […]