Ann Eveleth Privatisation has moved to the centre-stage of the transformation debate at the University of Durban Westville (UDW), precipitating a fresh crisis which has led to assaults and racial insults being hurled. The black-dominated Students Representative Council (SRC), backing calls to privatise the Indian-dominated catering service at campus residences, has been accused of racism,assaults […]

The consumer court proposed in a new draft Bill will allow for severe measures to be taken against shoddy business practices, reports Pat Sidley A FAR-REACHING Bill giving provinces the power to fine businesses and jail executives for harmful business practices is being drafted by the nine provincial The Consumer Protection Bill will strengthen the […]

Ann Eveleth KwaZulu-Natal Attorney General Tim McNally, accused last week of failing to tackle political violence has been called — with peers in the other provinces — to account to Parliament. Justice committee chairman Johnny de Lange said this week all nine attorneys general will appear before a public hearing — likely to be held […]

Johannesburg Child Welfare has permitted a gay couple to adopt a child — a first in South Africa, writes Gavin Duvenhage The first ever officially approved gay adoption took place in Johannesburg last month when a lesbian couple received a newborn baby from Johannesburg Child Welfare. Johannesburg Child Welfare, who managed the adoption, confirmed that […]

South Africa’s first national Women’s Day brought gender issues to everyone’s lips in a way that this country has never seen before. It provided a great talking point — but also an opportunity for hollow rhetoric and bland generalities. Parliament took the lead on Tuesday by calling a special sitting to mark the day. The […]

Jon Swift AT THE root of all the current upheaval and litigation=20 facing world rugby union is the insistence by the game’s=20 authorities that the game be an amateur sport. This=20 iconoclasm, this sticking to the ideals of a bygone era,=20 is rooted in the breakaway just on 100 years ago, when=20 some of the […]

Karen Harverson The trademark dispute between Chicken Licken owner=20 George Sombonos and US hamburger chain McDonald’s will=20 be heard in the Pretoria Supreme Court this month. The case consists of two applications; one of which will=20 be tried under South Africa’s old Trademark Act and the=20 other under the new Act passed in May 1995. […]

Politician Thandi Modise talks frankly about being abused by her husband, to Stefaans Brummer SHE’s deputy head of the ANC Women’s League, MP and former Umkhonto weSizwe commander, yet Thandi Modise cannot make phone calls from home. For that she needs the permission of her husband, and he won’t give it to The SABC’s controversial […]

Karen Harverson Foundry engineering and rolled steel producing group=20 Scaw Metals is investigating the possibility of=20 expanding into South America and may acquire a foundry=20 operation to supply the Chilean mining industry with=20 mining consumables such as mill liners and gauging=20 “It’s still in the early stages but we are looking to=20 diversify into other […]