THIS might be seen as the week of the killers as victims. The amnesty committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been hearing five former members of the security branch confess to atrocities they carried out during the apartheid era. And SABC has been broadcasting a two-part documentary on the life story of Eugene […]

Glynis O’Hara `EVERYONE thinks Australia has been conquered, but it hasn’t been conquered. It’s only 200 years ago that the white man came. They think they did it, but they didn’t. The roots of this country are just starting to speak.” The person talking is Mandawuy Yunupingu, leader of Yothu Yindi, the Aboriginal group that’s […]

Battle-scarred Zuma has some strong support in her Health Ministry’s latest war, reports Stefaans Brmmer HEALTH Minister Nkosazana Zuma may have a reputation for tilting at windmills, but for once her opponent – the fabulously powerful tobacco lobby – may have met its match. Zuma is backed by a strong body of international opinion and […]

Sedentary occupations may still be classified as low risk, but the growing reality is that more and more people are cracking up, reports Anne Montague in London WORK is a dangerous business. Every year, millions of people suffer ill health that is directly caused by, or made worse by, their jobs. And although hazardous occupations […]

Rehana Rossouw MEMBERS of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in the Cape are reeling after white members of their church voted this week to retain its racially segregated structures. Following a two-year unity process, the church put to the vote last Sunday a resolution to abolish apartheid in its Cape structures – called conferences – […]

The Beatles are back and by far the biggest buyers are teenagers, writes Lisa Buckingham in London THE Beatles are heading for the biggest record earnings in their history thanks to huge sales of the albums Anthology 1 and 2. Nearly 30 years after their peak and having seen off fashions like punk, rap, soul, […]

Stefaans Brmmer DEPUTY Defence Minister Ronnie Kasrils this week joined in condemning the South African Defence Force’s (SADF) submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as “arrogant and disappointing” – but said there was very little the ministry can do to force military generals to reveal more. However, commission deputy chair Alex Boraine said if […]

Andy Duffy NEARLY 17 000 state school teachers have applied for voluntary retrenchment, most of them senior experienced staff disenchanted with government’s education shake-up. More than 13 000 of the voluntary severance applications come from teachers in Gauteng (severance requests from 9% of its teachers), the Western Cape (requests from 17% of its teachers) and […]