Justin Pearce A last-minute submission by the Western Cape provincial government has delayed an application by the province to the Constitutional Court which will have far- reaching consequences for local elections in the province. The two-week delay has ruled out the chance of a November 1 election in Cape Town. The Western Cape government has […]
Adam Bacher and Shaun Pollock have famous names to live up to but they are playing their own way in Sri Lanka CRICKET: Ahitisham Manerjee THERE is a popular myth amongst Westerners that Sri Lankans, and Asians in general for that matter, are all fanatical about cricket. For their part, Sri Lankans have a similar […]
Inside Parliament: The onerous committee system, the code of ethics … and the ushers By special arrangement, we feature extracts from Parliamentary Whip, the publication of Idasa’s Parliamentary Information and Monitoring Service Pims MPs are seriously overstretched by the committee system, with some sitting on more than a dozen of these An investigation by Parliamentary […]
Justin Pearce A RADIO advertisement for the Mail & Guardian has been disallowed by the SABC on the grounds that it might offend the religious sensibilities of listeners. The advertisement, devised by the ad agency Network, features background music of an angelic choir, and a voiceover that begins: “On the first day his gaze fell […]
GOLF: Jon Swift IT IS a measure of the determination, talent and sheer guts of the man that Ernie Els would come back from the bitter disappointment of the US PGA the way he has. To understand that, it is worth recalling one of the oldest maxims of professional golf: you can win the Masters […]
Karen Harverson Anglo Alpha may set up a cement factory in Namibia to protect its stake in the 200 000-ton Namibian cement market from Malaysia, which is also considering investing in a factory there. However, the Namibian factory is just one of three options Anglo Alpha is considering to expand its cement-producing capacity, says managing […]
THEATRE: Mark Gevisser THERE is a wonderful moment in Valley Song when Athol Fugard, playing himself, turns on his audience and explains that he moved to the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda because ”I wanted to return to essentials, to the real world” where, away from the chimerical world of theatre, of ”actors and producers”, […]
Some South African manufacturers are going World Class, finds Anton GrUtter At least some South African companies have taken up the challenge of being internationally competitive, a Japanese authority in the field of World Class Manufacturing (WCM) has found Far from finding a devastated industry, Takeyuki Furuhashi from Chu-San-Ren, a Nagoya-based industry consultancy service, was […]
Eddie Koch A community newspaper that became the scourge of Colesberg when it published exposes of racism, corruption and third force actions in the small Karoo town during the early 1990s is alive and well — at a time when most “alternative” media projects in South Africa have shut down. The Toverberg Indaba was launched […]
Rehana Rossouw A senior member of the Cape Technikon staff has been suspended following allegations of massive fraud on the An internal investigation has been launched into allegations that senior members of staff had established private colleges where they purported that Cape Technikon accreditation had been granted for courses offered there. The head of the […]