Joshua Amupadhi and Mungo Soggot EVIDENCE that Gold Fields’s racial classification of workers could have contributed to the promotion of slaughter at the company’s mines has emerged at the Myburgh Commission of Inquiry. The evidence, which showed that the company identified workers’ ethnic backgrounds on their clock-in cards, followed a startlingly frank account of the […]

Suzy Bell THE Durban Centre for Photography (DCP) at the Bat Centre on Durban’s waterfront is under threat of closure by the end of the month if funds cannot be secured. Local photographers have reacted to the news with outrage. The centre has been open for one year, offering monthly photographic exhibitions and courses. It […]

National museums fear the axe following a financial survey by government consultants, writes Marion Edmunds GOVERNMENT consultants have proposed closing down a number of national museums, including the War Museum of the Boer Republics, the Afrikaanse Taalmuseum in Paarl, and the William Fehr Collection in the Castle in Cape Town, to make way for two […]

A SERIES of speeches in the past week has encapsulated the debate over the role of the media in this country’s transformation. The Reverend Frank Chikane, addressing a forum of 60 editors from around the Commonwealth, was quick to say he was not speaking on behalf of the deputy president’s office, where he is a […]

Madeleine Wackernagel THE appointment of Khaya Ngqula, managing director of Norwich Unit Trusts, as chief executive officer of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has raised eyebrows among the labour constituency, which is due to present its report on restructuring the IDC this week. Says an insider close to the investigation: “The timing of this announcement, […]

Race scientists say intelligence is built into our genes – should we believe them? Gary Younge reports from London CHRISTOPHER BRAND is proud to be a racist. Not a mad, bad racist who sticks lit fireworks through Asian people’s letterboxes, or a violent nutter who attacks black people on the streets with broken bottles. Brand […]

After the Francois Pienaar debacle Springbok coach Andre Markgraaff has been dubbed `Saddam Hussein’ by the players, and it’s not just because they both have moustaches RUGBY:Jon Swift IN examining the Francois Pienaar debacle it must be understood at the outset that South African rugby is, and always has been, reliant on the FU factor. […]

Rehana Rossouw THE massive manhunt and successful capture this week of Dawid “Doggy Dog” Ruiters, suspected of killing five people in Nieuwoudtville, has focused national attention on crime in the Cape’s rural communities. Ruiters’s capture followed the murder of two women and a four-year-old child in Niewoudtville in the Northern Cape last month. For months, […]

Paul Murphy and Patrick Donovan in London GOLDMAN SACHS, one of the world’s most powerful investment banks, has been secretly “unwinding” the huge holdings of copper owned by Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation in the wake of this year’s market-rigging scandal on the London Metal Exchange (LME). The American bank was handed in June what is perhaps […]

Robin Wright in Luanda UNITED STATES Secretary of State Warren Christopher flew into this war-ravaged capital this week to try to jump-start the process to end one of the world’s deadliest conflicts. But the visit from the highest-ranking US official since Angola became independent in 1975 was marred by the non-appearance of Jonas Savimbi, leader […]