Jonathan Ancer He attacked policemen in court; he had nine different=20 lawyers; he called Springbok rugby wing James Small as=20 his witness; he made an obscene gesture to the judge,=20 tried to force his recusal and yelled at him ”I’ll see=20 you right”. Now Gary Beuthin is going to the Constitutional Court=20 to continue his […]

Anne Eveleth Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom rejected reports=20 that legislation he proposed to Cabinet this week was=20 aimed at privatising tribal land rights, and said the=20 draft Bill would instead provide legal security to=20 millions of impoverished black rural South Africans=20 living on tribal land in the former homelands. Hanekom said the proposed Interim […]

Pat Sidley dissects the profound — and controversial – – changes proposed for South Africa’s health services ‘A caring health service” is the Department of Health’s=20 slogan describing its work. And it’s been a gruelling=20 five months for its committee charged with starting the=20 The Committee of Inquiry into a National Health=20 Insurance System has […]

Justin Pearce World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)=20 development blueprints have been lambasted by a report=20 released by the development agency Oxfam.=20 The report says the World Bank and IMF schemes,=20 introduced in the early 1980s to promote economic=20 recovery, deepen the cycle of poverty endured by the=20 citizens of developing countries. The Oxfam […]

Rehana Rossouw November’s local government election could be even more=20 chaotic than last year’s national elections in which=20 the Independent Election Commission (IEC) was given=20 only three months to prepare for a poll in which 19- million people participated, former IEC chairman Mr=20 Justice JC Kriegler warned this week. “We were given three months to […]

The dream final — the single mindedness and skill of=20 the All Blacks against the ‘one team, one nation’=20 determination of South Africa=20 RUGBY: Jon Swift IT IS fitting, given the World Cup trials and=20 tribulations of Francois Pienaar’s South African side,=20 that the final hurdle should be in the form of this=20 country’s traditional […]

Rehana Rossouw HYSTERIA whipped up about people pouring across South=20 Africa’s borders to steal jobs from legal citizens is=20 based on unreliable information and does not take into=20 account South Africa’s moral duty to build a strong=20 regional economy. This is the message from a high-level delegation of=20 parliamentarians and representatives of non- governmental organisations […]

A new Idasa report highlights ministries which have=20 tabled new laws, and those which haven’t, reports Eddie=20 IF Vaclav Havel were judge, Nelson Mandela would=20 triumph. The playwright and premier of the Czech=20 Republic believes that reconstruction in his country is=20 not about replacing socialism with capitalism, or=20 poverty with wealth, but “about truth, how […]