Tiger Woods’s father believes his son will `do more than any other man in history to change the course of humanity’. Many golf fans will concur after he won the US Masters last weekend GOLF:Greg Williams THIS week America officially remembered an infamous footnote in its history. Tuesday marked the 50th anniversary of Jackie Roosevelt […]
Former apartheid minister Adriaan Vlok is still seen as a superhero. Marion Edmunds reports SUTHERLAND is a Karoo town where coloureds and whites still bury their dead on different sides of a fence. This deference to apartheid does not stop at the cemetery gates. Whites in the Northern Cape town also like to pay quiet […]
The Independent Producers’ Organisation (IPO) has launched a campaign to save the SABC. We agree that it is time to draw back from the welter of condemnation attaching itself to the national broadcaster and its crises, and ask instead how we can rescue what is one of our most important cultural assets, one that reaches […]
In a move to eradicate sweatshops worldwide, a US task force has reached agreement on working conditions and wages in clothing and shoe factories, reports Paul Blustein LEADING representatives of the United States clothing industry, responding to an anti- sweatshop initiative by President Bill Clinton, have reached what they call an “historic” agreement with labour […]
A convicted hijacker has been set free following a constitutional judgment that has created a crucial legal precedent, reports Mungo Soggot IN a landmark constitutional judgment, a man convicted of hijacking and attempted murder was released on Tuesday after only 15 months’ imprisonment as he had not been offered free legal advice. Patrick Mgcina (30) […]
Maria McCloy THIS year kwaito producer Arthur Mafokate won’t be on stage at the South African Music Awards (Sama) simulating anal sex with his dancers in a big diss to the record industry like he did in 1996. Despite the fact that he entered acts from his 999 stable for the 1997 awards, a week […]
I WAS once a member of a Johannesburg congregation headed by an American-born rabbi, Norman Bernhard. He was a fine man and was my rabbi and my friend. Then, one day, he suddenly dropped me. Months later I met him by chance and he explained his mysterious disappearance from my life: his work permit had […]
The draft Basic Conditions of Employment Bill, released this week, has raised the ire of business and labour. A compromise is vital if Gear is to stay on track. Madeleine Wackernagel and Ferial Haffajee report THE next stage in the heavyweight battle to get the draft Basic Conditions of Employment Bill passed into law is […]
Treatment for Aids barely exists for 90% of Third World patients. That may now change, says the scientist who discovered the Aids virus. Dawn Blalock reports AIDS is no longer the disease it used to be, says the man who discovered the virus that causes it. There’s still no cure, but more effective treatments are […]
The health authorities fudged the damning findings of an investigation into the deaths of four patients at the hands of one of Zuma’s Cuban doctors. Mungo Soggot and Marion Edmunds report MINISTER of Health Dr Nkosazana Zuma has been implicated in a cover-up of circumstances surrounding the deaths of four patients – including a seven-year-old […]