Iden Wetherell A STRUGGLE is looming for custody of a report documenting widespread human rights abuses by Zimbabwean security forces in the 1980s. Details of the report – handed to President Robert Mugabe in March – were carried in the Mail & Guardian last week. It reveals a bloody campaign of terror unleashed by the […]
FRIDAY, 10.300AM: WORLD number 10 Wayne Ferreira of South Africa was left deflated after losing to Sergi Bruguera of Spain in the German Open tennis championship yesterday. Ferreira had to do battle for a win over Alberto Martin earlier in the day in a tense three-set match with five match points. Fereira won 3-6 7-5 […]
Ferial Haffajee THE half-day strike organised for Monday by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) appears set to go ahead, despite talks planned for Saturday aimed at suturing controversy around the draft Basic Conditions of Employment Bill. The government and labour are optimistic of a settlement at the talks, but business is still […]
Tom Lodge IN the kind of civil war which South Africa’s liberation struggle represented, what constitutes a human rights violation? Testimony to the truth commission has ranged from evidence from newspaper editors concerning their publications’ degree of complicity with apartheid oppression, to submissions from criminals and torturers. Of course, any action which infringes upon another […]
FRIDAY, 111.00AM: SOUTH AFRICAN soccer is to get R25-million sponsorship boost from Rothmans of Pall Mall to fund a new knock-out competition over the next four years. The new competition will be known as the Rothmnans Cup. Sports Minister Steve Tshwete said yesterday: “This cup competition comes at a critical moment. Soccer, after an investigation, […]
FIRDAY, 11.00AM: JOANNE Norton and Cherry Moulder will face each other today in the Bell’s SA Ladies Amateur matchplay golf championship at Killarney Golf Club. Both have been cutting through the opposition in the past few days — Norton beat Colet Viljoen 5/4, while Moulder beat Yvonne Pelser 2/1. In a unexpected twist, current SA […]
modern times Jim Cambray WHEN an Eastern Cape farmer saw some small fish in his streams, he thought they were trout spawning, and called in local scientists to make sure. They discovered the little creature was, in fact, the Cape galaxias, which had never before been recorded in Eastern Cape river systems. Also known as […]
In an unfavourable macro-economic environment, Gear could confound plans to provide the necessary support for agriculture, writes Asghar Adelzadeh of the NIEP in the sixth of a series on economic policy THERE have been several attempts to specify and quantify the contribution of agriculture to South Africa’s broader economy. Most concur that the sector’s direct […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM The statistics released by the Council of South African Banks today revealed that robbers have gotten away with more than R30-million in 164 bank robberies so far this year, while R105,3 million was robbed in 1996. COSAB head Bob Tucker said police indicated the robberies are the work of syndicates, made up of […]
TEACHERS WALK OUT ALL teacher unions walked out of pay negotiations yesterday, the third such walkout this year, accusing the government of lack of transparency. And protests seem likely to come from nurses as well, offered increases of 7,04%, compared to some 22% offered to other low-paid civil servants. IRAQIS IN SUDAN A UGANDAN newspaper, […]