The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: South Africa=20 can learn important lessons from the 15 truth=20 commissions around the world during the past two=20 Eddie Koch and Gaye Davis WHEN the Mothers of Plaza De Mayo gather at 3pm every=20 Thursday to bang pots in the centre of Buenos Aires,=20 they highlight a paradox that marks […]
CINEMA: Trevor Steele-Taylor MICHELE SOAVI’S magnificent Della Morte Dell Amore, which has crept on to the circuit at the 8 Cult Cinema in Rosebank, is likely to creep as shyly off the circuit if last Saturday night’s audience of four is anything to go by. Sad — for this is a hugely entertaining and visually […]
Gavin du Venage GAUTENG Safety and Security Minister Jessie Duarte has=20 been snubbed by magistrates after they refused to meet=20 her to discuss bail conditions for people charged with=20 violent crimes. Duarte asked for a meeting last month to discuss bail=20 conditions, in particular those for people accused of=20 taxi-related violence. The request was turned […]
Eddie Koch Four lions, that were shot dead and skinned illegally=20 by a pastor of the Full Evangelical Church on a farm=20 near Hoedspruit, are at the centre of a growing row=20 over illicit hunting operations by white farmers in the=20 Northern Province. Conservation officials in Phalaborwa told the Mail Guardian they had the pastor, […]
A human rights foreign policy is a laudable ideal, but=20 it leads to a minefield of conflicting priorities,=20 writes Danny Titus ONE cannot but wholeheartedly support the Mail Guardian’s headline last week: “Let human rights lead=20 the way in SA foreign policy”. South Africa is moving towards adding the international=20 element of human rights to […]
Gauteng Finance MEC Jabu Moleketi talks to Aspasia Pragmatic idealist and communist, Jabu Moleketi, Gauteng Finance and Economics MEC is a living contradiction. In the space of a year, he has evolved from an MK soldier and communist party strategist into a convincing economics planner. Moleketi himself does not see an ideological conflict. “I do […]
Shadley Nash Eastern Cape Muslims responding to a call to take up=20 arms against the rebel Serbs in Bosnia are being=20 trained in guerrilla warfare at a secret venue outside=20 Port Elizabeth. Sources have also confirmed that a training ground has=20 been established in Pietermaritzburg and another is=20 expected to be established in Cape Town. […]
Eastern Cape civil servants are fighting against a=20 decision to axe about 7 000 government jobs, reports=20 Steuart Wright A SHOWDOWN is looming between the Eastern Cape=20 government, which is preparing to cut its bloated and=20 inefficient bureaucracy, and the civil servants=20 fighting to retain their posts. The province’s 155 613 civil servants were caught […]
Stefaans BrUmmer IT took the humble platanna frog — well, perhaps a=20 million or more of them — to point out the urgent need=20 for uniform and strong national legislation protecting=20 wildlife resources. While legislation dealing with the ivory and rhino horn=20 trade were jacked up after elephants and rhino became=20 the causes celebre of […]
You’re not going to believe it, but Arts, Science and=20 Culture Director General Roger Jardine, who had penned=20 a prompt answer to our Cabinet Efficiency Test letter,=20 had his car hi-jacked last week — with his reply in=20 it. We await a fresh attempt. The M&G had sent a letter in the name of an […]