Eddie Koch The Cabinet this week appointed new members to the National Parks Board (NPB) in a move that will speed up conservation reforms designed to make the country’s game reserves more relevant to the needs of the rural The appointment of the new national conservation body, made at Cabinet’s meeting on Wednesday, is also […]

Gaye Davis DEPUTY President FW De Klerk’s decision to back the Western Cape wing of his party in its stand on the demarcation dispute would have ”deep consequences for relations between the African National Congress and National Party and the government and the NP,” said Deputy Minister of Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development, Mohamed Valli […]

Communities are taking justice into their own hands as attorneys-general admit they cannot prosecute major cases. David Beresford and Rehana Rossouw report SOUTH AFRICANS expect instant justice — if a spate of burnings, stonings, shootings, whippings and vicious assaults perpetrated by communities against alleged criminals is anything to go by. And while vigilantes and communities […]

THE Conference of Editors was started some two decades ago as a bold attempt to bridge the gap between English and Afrikaans editors of mainstream newspapers. Its structures reflected that narrow goal, appropriate only to the strange politics of the time: in order to avoid conflict between these two disparate groups, it was a body […]

Dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson is back — this time with his band in tow. He spoke to ITUMELENG OA MAHABANE ‘IT feels good to be back,” Linton Kwesi Johnson says. He is not wearing his trademark hat. He doesn’t always wear the hat, he protests: “I am wearing a cap now.” The cap is […]

Reg Rumney The shape of new competition policy is becoming clearer. Trade & Industry Minister Trevor Manuel in a speech last week revealed some of the proposals soon to be circulated in a draft Bill. Among the main objectives, said Manuel, were that: * The linkages between firms, be they through vertical integration, horizontal collusion […]

Justin Pearce Two scions of CCV-TV’s marketing department and one South African Broadcasting Corporation old-guarder are to head the SABC’s revised three-channel television line-up, which will take effect in February next year. Molefe Mokgatle will head Channel 1, Taninga Msimango will become acting head of Channel 2, and Louis Raubenheimer is to head Channel 3. […]

Justin Pearce The voices of the Morning Stars echo up the stairs of the fluorescent-lit warehouse in Market Street. Dressed in medical orderlies’ white coats with “MS” embroidered on the breast pocket, the Morning Stars enter in single file, and women from the audience jump up from their chairs to tag along behind the procession. […]

A Cabinet decision to keep a toxic-waste investigation in-house has made green organisations see red, writes Eddie Koch A COALITION of green organisations plans to take President Nelson Mandela to court because of his Cabinet’s decision to overturn Parliament’s call for an independent inquiry into recent toxic-waste scandals. The Environmental Justice Networking Forum (EJNF), made […]

Ann Eveleth Beleaguered KwaZulu-Natal Attorney-General Tim McNally met with African National Congress provincial leaders this week after calls by the party for his resignation. A joint statement released after the meeting on Wednesday between McNally and the ANC delegation, led by ANC provincial leader Jacob Zuma, said the ANC had expressed its concerns over the […]