Proposals by the Department of Health to curb the dispensing of medicines by doctors will create all kinds of other problems, reports Rehana Rossouw SOME three million patients across South Africa receive medication from their doctors every month. By the end of September, the Department of Health will have changed this. Dispensing doctors have united […]

Being raped is just the beginning of the ordeal for thousands of South African women, writes Angella Johnson IT was a bitterly cold evening when Gladys Masai wrapped up in her winter coat and set off to visit her aunt in Brits. The journey from Pretoria should have taken about an hour and she was […]

Gaye Davis MO SHAIK, chief of the National Intelligence Co- ordinating Committee (Nicoc), is to quit his position at month-end for a new post in either the Department of Foreign Affairs or the Department of Trade and Industry. Smart money is on the latter. An announcement is expected shortly, but it is understood Shaik’s new […]

OPERA: Coenraad Visser reviews Tosca WHEN Scarpia slams his door to shut out the sound of Tosca singing, he makes the point that the power of the politician will always be stronger than that of the artist. Perhaps that is Pact Opera’s oblique comment on current events affecting the continued existence of this art form […]

Russia may be one of the world’s fastest-growing capital markets, but it’s also the riskiest, writes Patrick Donovan Financier George Soros overstretched his talents with his latest sortie into the book-publishing world. But anybody prepared to wade their way through the billionaire investor’s biography Soros on Soros will at least come away with an understanding […]

Jon Swift EVEN now, the name Dennis Lillee strikes a chord as being one of the world’s great quick bowlers. Perhaps the great West Indian Wes Hall is a bit further removed from memory than the angular Australian. But Cedrick English is taking the thoughts of both these towering exponents of seam with him to […]

Eddie Koch and Marion Edmunds A SINGLE incident is missing from the ANC’s submission to the truth commission and it speaks volumes about why both the African National Congress and the National Party this week failed, essentially, to take moral responsibility for the abuses committed by their members in the apartheid years. In July 1988 […]

Affairs and Tourism in The Mark Gevisser Profile Of politics and hairdressing On the passage wall of Peter Mokaba’s Italianate Sandton villa is a painting of a white baby suckling at a black woman’s breasts. It is shocking for two reasons. Firstly, because its rawness is so out of place with the anodyne designer feel […]

Joshua Amupadhi Mining giant Gold Fields has finally admitted its men’s only hostel system may be at the root of violence which left 28 workers dead in the past month on three of its mines. Gold Fields representative Marion Brower said the company has begun setting up forums — a move to integrate workers regardless […]

Brennon Marcano Over R100-million in assets is up for grabs as the government decides the fate of funds accumulated by the Wool Board, which is due to merge with the National Wool Growers Association (NWGA). Minister of Land Affairs and Agriculture Derek Hanekom has decided to postpone the planned merger until a special two-man investigative […]