The private and the public sector have joined hands to develop one of the first rural housing developments. Madeleine Wackernagel reports on the project The Housing Ministry — specifically its failure to deliver — has come in for substantial criticism in the past year. So it was with obvious delight that Minister of Housing Sankie […]
Family planners who still believe in the slogan ‘development is the best contraceptive’ are nuts, argues Ann Cluver Weinberg ‘BECAUSE it feels right” is no way to run a country. In the United States presidential campaign of Senator Barry Goldwater in the early 1960s, the slogan was coined: “In your heart you know he’s right.” […]
against African at UWC’ University of the Western Cape lecturers Desiree Lewis, Sean Lewis and Kole Omotoso take issue with a recent M&G article about tensions at the institution Philippa Garson’s article entitled “The big battle for ‘Bush’” (Mail & Guardian, March 1 to 7) caused a furore at the University of the Western Cape […]
Ann Eveleth When former Military Intelligence Sergeant Andre Cloete shifted from his rigid attention- like stand in the witness box on Tuesday morning, lifting his right arm to his face, it seemed as if he might offer an apologetic salute to the generals in the dock. The salute never materialised, but the impression of the […]
Marion Edmunds It is likely that the tradition of the makhulu-baas will continue in South African party politics. This week the African National Congress and the National Party shelved constituency-based politics once and for all, settling for a system of proportional representation. This system makes the personality and charisma of the leader of a political […]
Soon you will be able to study to be a Nat politician, reports Marion Edmunds The National Party is setting up a political academy and its first group of 50 students begin training on August 1. While the detail of this academy is still under discussion, the shape and concept has been accepted. An NP […]
As government reconsiders its expenditure, certain ministries will suffer cuts to their budget votes. Lynda Loxton reports As parliamentary committees started examining the 1996/97 budget votes of the various ministries this week, it was clear that the Ministry of Defence is hurting the most from the reprioritisation of government spending. South African National Defence Force […]
Justin Pearce SUSPICIONS of the Vorster government’s complicity in the 1977 assassination of National Party election candidate Robert Smit and his wife Jeanne-Cora hardened this week following an announcement the police have reopened their investigation into the murders. The Smits were found dead with multiple stab and bullet wounds in their rented house in Springs […]
As the first black consortium bids for TML, a charter is suddenly being drafted to safeguard editors and to preserve traditions in the group. Jacquie Golding-Duffy reports THE editors of Times Media Limited’s (TML) core publications say they do not fear losing their jobs under a new black stakeholder. However, on the eve of the […]
Mike Loewe The most ambitious public relations stunt by a South African newspaper is degenerating into farce as two ill-prepared women climbers scramble for the top of Mount Everest. South African mountaineer Cathy O’Dowd, a Rhodes University photojournalism masters student and daughter of Anglo-American director Michael O’Dowd, will carry with her the hopes of her […]