Luisa Dillner in London BRITAIN’S Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is thinking twice about banning drivers from using their mobile phones while on the road. But lobbyists there want cellphones off the road, whether hand-held or mounted on a car kit. Is there any evidence that mobile phones actually cause accidents? “There’s […]
ON a hilltop overlooking Johannesburg’s northern suburbs, Tara -the H Moross psychiatric centre – looks like a five-star hotel with well-groomed gardens and lawns, a nine-hole golf course, two tennis courts and a swimming pool. Behind the glitzy appearance is a hospital providing intensive treatment of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, depression and anxiety disorders. […]
Peta Thornycroft A GABLED mansion in the heart of Kensington, the eastern Johannesburg suburb, served as a “safe” house for intelligence operatives in the Security Police. It was at this house in the late 1970s and early 1980s where reports submitted by journalists who were informers were scrutinised before being consolidated and sent on to […]
The dream of founding a new National Party is over for Roelf Meyer, courtesy of the NP’s elite, reports Marion Edmunds FALLEN National Party hero, Roelf Meyer, has been outmanoeuvred by his opponents. His more conservative colleagues, led by executive director Marthinus van Schalkwyk and Western Cape Premier Hernus Kriel, pressured leader FW de Klerk […]
Despite criticism, Cuban doctors work in places where South African doctors refuse to go, reports Dawn Blalock THE child on his mother’s lap is breathing in short quick breaths. The mother describes his symptoms in Setswana. “How many days with the fever?” the doctor asks in English. Although neither English nor Setswana is his native […]
A small Free State town provides a testing ground for South Africa’s three-year democracy. Stuart Hess and Dawn Blalock report
Stuart Hess and Mungo Soggot report on a case that takes the failure of the courts to protect the public to a new extreme MAMOKGETHI MALEBANA is missing. Lots of children go missing in South Africa. But the disappearance of this seven-year-old child from Katlehong is a shocking indictment of the country’s criminal justice system. […]
profits Developed countries may have learnt that environmental friendliness pays, but South Africa still lags far behind Roger Cowe in London THE “greening” of business has received a boost from research which shows that British companies taking environmental issues seriously have better financial performance than their non-green rivals. In the first substantial study of this […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy puts faces to the names of the applicants vying for the private television licence and gives a sneak preview of the IBA’s final policy paper on private television INDEPENDENT producers will be displeased with the Independent Broadcasting Authority’s (IBA) final private television discussion paper as it proposes that the new television channel, to […]
The fight between Pagad and gangster groups has political ramifications for the Western Cape, reports Stefaans Brmmer PAST links between political parties and the antagonists in the Western Cape’s escalating violence between vigilantes and gangsters have come back to haunt government and security agencies. This week, a year after People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) […]