In Constitution Week, Mungo Soggot asks lawyers and academics for a scorecard on the country’s highest court IN the two years that the Constitutional Court has sat in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, the streets of nearby Hillbrow have deteriorated into some of the nastiest stretches in the city. The court’s neighbour to the east, the Hillbrow morgue, […]
Hang on to that tatty old pair of jeans lying around – one day Levi Strauss may just pay a fortune for them, writes Mark Tran in New York IT may seem excessive to pay $25 000 for a tatty pair of jeans, but the pair in question are no ordinary Levi’s. They date back […]
Deputy President Thabo Mbeki prepares his office for the presidency with a crack economic and strategic team, reports Marion Edmonds DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki is poised to tighten his grip further on the presidency, setting up a crack squad in his office to oversee every influential government function. The Mail & Guardian established this week […]
Martin Woollacott WHEN little Paul Dombey asks: “Papa! What is money?” his father mentions guineas, shillings and halfpence. “I don’t mean that, Papa, I mean what’s money after all?” “What is money after all!” Dickens has Mr Dombey reply, backing his chair a little, “that he might better gaze in sheer amazement at the presumptuous […]
With the competition of such high quality, the right tactics will be vital if South Africa’s teams are to do well at the cross- country championships ATHLETICS: Julian Drew IT seems like only yesterday that South Africa’s finest middle-distance athletes first put their reputations on the line in what is widely regarded as the toughest […]
The Ministry of Labour plans to take tough action if any officials are implicated in the Western Cape training programme scandal, reports Rehana Rossouw A CAPE company training unemployed and unskilled workers may have used fake identity books to defraud the Western Cape Department of Labour of more than R1- million. The department uncovered the […]
FINE ART: Suzy Bell IT was love letters that sparked his affair with art. Glorious love letters, whose envelopes were so highly beautified he could only just squeeze in the name and address of his lover. Some of these original envelopes – from bygone days when stamps cost two cents each – are on show […]
Carien du Plessis THE South African Police Service conceded this week that its child protection units (CPUs) only scratch the surface of the problem of child abuse in the country. Police were confronted with nearly 36 000 cases of child abuse last year, more than double the number in1993, and it is widely acknowledged that […]
The government is determined to push ahead with an ambitious programme of Budget reform. But change will not take place overnight, write Madeleine Wackernagel and Lynda Loxton THE country’s financing process is undergoing nothing short of a revolution, Director General of Finance Maria Ramos said this week. Briefing the parliamentary finance committee, Ramos agreed that […]
The truth commission exhumes bodies from security police death farms, one in an IFP- held area, reports Ann Eveleth ONE of the death farms uncovered by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission last week sits in the heart of an Inkatha Freedom Party stronghold in the volatile KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. Truth commission investigators last week exhumed the […]