Stefaans BrUmmer DEPUTY President FW de Klerk this week distanced=20 himself from post-1990 security force “dirty tricks”=20 operations, while the ANC parliamentary study group on=20 safety and security said denials were to be expected. The tete-a-tete followed revelations in last week’s=20 Mail & Guardian by former police operative Paul Erasmus=20 of his involvement in the […]
The right of a child to refuse religious instruction=20 enshrined in the new Gauteng Education Bill has=20 caused an outcry, reports Gavin du Venage The Gauteng Education Bill has come under attack from=20 Jewish, Muslim and Christian schools who fear it will=20 outlaw their right to provide religious teaching. Muslim schools have also objected to […]
South African broadcasters have been caught unawares by=20 Rupert Murdoch’s purchase of southern hemisphere rugby=20 broadcasting rights, reports Justin Pearce Rupert Murdoch’s purchase of the television rights to=20 southern hemisphere rugby has caught the South African=20 broadcasting world unawares, with the Independent=20 Broadcasting Authority and the SABC still searching for=20 an effective response to a […]
The visit of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams to South=20 Africa highlighted both the similarities and=20 differences between the South African and Irish peace=20 processes, writes David Beresford The departure of Gerry Adams from South Africa last=20 week is likely to have been met with a sense of relief=20 in Stormont and Whitehall. The memory […]
Cinema: Justin Pearce Batman Forever — the third film in the sequence that began with Tim Burton’s Batman — is a comic book of a movie. This fact would not need pointing out, but for the fact that the first two in the sequence weren’t comic book movies. They were graphic novel movies. When Burton, […]
African journalists are struggling to find a unique=20 voice in the face of Western stereotypes and diverse=20 beliefs, writes Chris Louw Kenyan journalist Charles Wachira walked around in the=20 streets of Harare last week, shaking his head in=20 disbelief. “I never knew an African state like this=20 existed,” he muttered. “Look at the roads, man. […]
Reg Rumney reports on the labour market gospel according to the World Bank A World Bank report on labour warns against the the kind of amendments the union negotiators have proposed on compulsory centralised bargaining in the draft Labour Bill. Labour is the theme of the 1995 World Development Report: Workers in an Integrating World […]
Aziz Pahad, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, =20 rejects the claim that his is the least effective=20 government department, reports Rehana Rossouw=20 South Africans are still extremely parochial and the=20 Department of Foreign Affairs cannot be expected to act=20 aggressively to protect human rights internationally if=20 its citizens are complacent, says Deputy Minister of=20 Foreign […]
Rugby is in the Afrikaner soul: It has De Klerk’s cunning, Boer defiance and the fury of their world cup team. Andre Brink argues that its worst traits still shape the new South Africa
Jon Swift THE tragedy which befell Max Brito cast a pall over the World Cup and the Ivory Coast threequarter’s broken neck and subsequent paralysis will be one of the sad memories of South Africa ’95. But there were other moments to remember. Kicks of the tournament: A toss-up between Joel Stransky’s matchwinner in the […]