Teachers’ unions are disenchanted with government measures that have led to an exodus from the profession, writes Philippa Garson THE writing’s on the proverbial chalkboard: tough times lie ahead for teachers left behind after 15 000 of their best have been paid tens of millions of rands to stop teaching. Many have breathed easy at […]
Wage moderation and consensus among businesses and trade unions have led to stable economic growth in the Netherlands. Mark Milner reports from Amsterdam IT is called the Dutch model, the Delta model, even, somewhat predictably, the Tulip model. Call it what you will, it has given the Netherlands a combination of low inflation, low interest […]
Johannesburg’s public defenders turn to gallows humour at the coalface of justice, reports Mungo Soggot THE stench of urine in Court 20 of the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court was so powerful that the court orderly reluctantly opened the large windows to the chilly afternoon air. The smell was seeping up from the cells below, from where […]
Judith Watt THE son of super-surgeon Dr Chris Barnard and a member of the Meerlust wine dynasty are to join Boss Models’s top overseas operation, swelling the ranks of the blue- blooded and beautiful strutting on world catwalks. Chris Barnard, who joined Boss Models’s Cape Town business last year, is to fly to New York […]
The exposure of alleged ANC spy Sifiso Nkabinde highlights the nature of the tension between George Fivaz and Sydney Mufamadi, write Mail & Guardian Reporters THE public spat between Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi and national Police Commissioner George Fivaz is the culmination of old tensions around police inability to deliver in the face […]
Peta Thornycroft THINUS VAN DER MERWE (31), a policeman for 13 years, was killed in a shoot-out under moulting jacaranda trees in Kensington, Johannesburg, just after lunch on Monday. If it had been in the Gauteng school term, he would have died at more or less the same time as suburban buses bump along the […]
`SCIENCE has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster, or of unlimited progress,” said Winston Churchill. We now know what he means, courtesy of Professor Barry Komisaruk. The professor and his team of researchers at Rutgers University in the United States this week announced the discovery of a chemical in the body which […]
Witnesses testified in court this week that a senior children’s home official sexually abused several children in his charge, reports Stuart Hess A FORMER house parent at one of the country’s most respected children’s homes appeared in court this week on charges that he raped and abused five children in his care. James Arthur Frazer […]
Hazel Friedman ART will soon stop playing the role of Oliver Twist to the public and private sector’s Mr Beadle. This is the prophesy of Dr Chris Mann, convenor of what could well be a landmark international conference on the economic benefits of arts and culture in South Africa. A project of the Grahamstown Foundation […]
Potential bidders may think again before taking on SAA’s losses, now set to top R400-million, writes Ferial Haffajee SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS (SAA) may now be up for grabs, but potential bidders are likely to baulk at the extent of its losses – now tipped to top R400-million in 1996-97. The disappointing prognosis comes at a […]