Mail & Guardian Reporter PX, Transnet’s loss-making container shipment and consignment distribution unit, is on the road to recovery after the unions endorsed a restructuring plan, says Thabang Motsohi, deputy chief executive. The strategy, which involves closing 34 mini-depots, will see the company break even in the1998 financial year – after making a loss of […]

Glynis O’Hara THE disastrous Melville 100th birthday party in Johannesburg two weeks ago has run into money troubles. A meeting between creditors and the Melville Organising Committee was held at a lawyer’s office last week but no one from the committee would talk to the press. This week creditors were told the Melville Organising Committee […]

The evictions taking place in Thokoza have resulted in the IFP threatening to destabilise Gauteng. Stuart Hess reports EVICTIONS in the East Rand township of Thokoza are being hampered as people evicted earlier this week are returning to the houses. No action has yet been taken against them, but there is a discernible tension in […]

BANNING the bomb has become an orthodox goal among those who know best what nuclear war would mean. The global coalition of ex- generals and admirals who called last week for a determined drive to rid the world of nuclear weapons is talking on the basis of the most intimate hands-on experience. This initiative follows […]

Mungo Soggot THE lawyer representing Bernadette Gibson – the woman who suffered vaginal acid burns – has petitioned the Appellate Division for a higher damages award, claiming she is mentally unstable. Gibson, bankrupted after pursuing an ambitious multi-million-rand claim in the supreme court, said this week she did not know lawyer Peter Soller had filed […]

The bail system being applied by KwaZulu- Natal courts is contributing to a rise in political tension, reports Ann Eveleth INKATHA Freedom Party leader Biva Nkwenyana appeared in court last month in connection with three separate murder cases – including one allegedly committed after his first court appearance – but he is still out on […]

The nature of SA art awards is changing to fit new realities. HAZEL FRIEDMAN reports THE FNB Vita Art Now Award exhibition will soon be a thing of the past due to “the closure of many art galleries in South Africa”, says Vita director Phillip Stein. But there is no need as yet to write […]

African radio is switching from being a vehicle of the state to one of commercial enterprise. Peter van den Akker reports A TAXI driver called Antwi, in Ghana’s capital Accra, roars with laughter. “She is a sugar mammy herself!” he exclaims, and to get his message across to his passengers, he points repeatedly to the […]

Applications for amnesty from the the PAC and ANC are pouring in to the truth commission, and with a likely extension of the cut-off date right-wingers will also be able to apply, writes Eddie Koch PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela is expected to cap a week of dramatic developments around the truth commission by announcing on Friday […]

KwaZulu-Natal farmers who have resorted to radical private security measures “are fuelling racial tensions, reports Ann Eveleth EX-KOEVOET soldiers are patrolling the rugged terrain of Weenen after a spate of farm murders in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, say prominent farmers and police in this frontier town. The Weenen Farmers’ Association hired the guards after the son […]