Guns and soldiers will not stop taxi violence, but proper public transport and careful regulation of the taxi industry might, argues Peter Marcuse THE deadly competition among taxi services has a cause, and it has a cure. The cause is not that suddenly taxi owners, taxi drivers, or people in their employ, have turned into […]

Lynda Loxton reports from Cape Town on the reaction to the far-reaching proposals to shake up the motor, textile and clothing industries When Trade and Industry Minister Trevor Manuel met the captains of the textile, clothing and automobile industries and unionists this week, many expected a fair amount of blood letting as these fractious industries […]

One offshoot of the controversy surrounding Iscor’s proposed Saldanha mill is that the locals are finally being consulted, reports Rehana Rossouw The good news about Iscor’s planned Saldanha steel mill is the emergence of real consultation and debate at grassroots level. This was well illustrated last Friday when cabinet members and members of the Western […]

Shadley Nash The greasy details of rivalry between two take-away pizza traders emerged unwittingly in an unlikely place this week — the rape trial of a self-confessed The Port Elizabeth Supreme Court — sitting for the rape trial against satanist Frans du Toit who, in a third rape confession, admitted to raping a 20-year-old woman […]

South Africa’s semifinal opponents, France, have power and flair, but they don’t always seem able to use these RUGBY: Jon Swift IN many ways the World Cup semifinal facing South Africa on Saturday will be something of a relief. Against the French at Kings Park in Durban there is the first real chance, since the […]

Jane Starfield DIVIDED SISTERHOOD: Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession, by Shula Marks (Witwatersrand University Press, R82,00) SHULA Marks’ study of the South African nursing profession is as pioneering as her other monographs and collections of essays have been. Her attention to gender was notably voiced in Not Either an Experimental […]

Reg Rumney Housing subsidies and infrastructure have the biggest chunk of allocations from the Reconstruction and Development Programme Fund — R1,4-billion out of R7,8-billion. This is revealed in Minister without Portfolio Jay Naidoo’s report to Parliament last week, Taking the RDP Forward. The document shows R1,4-billion has been allocated from the RDP Fund to boost […]

M-Net corporate affairs manager Cawe Mahlati, tells Aspasia Karras how she hopes to see M-Net become the frontrunner of global broadcasting in Africa Articulate and determined, Cawe Mahlati is a force to be reckoned with in private broadcasting. Not only does she have a vision of what broadcasting can become in the future, but she […]

Views on where housing prices are headed are mixed — but economic growth and the RDP hold the key, reports Reg House prices are still set to show real gains this year, according to property economist Erwin Rode. He is still forecasting a 15 percent average increase this year. This is despite what Absa Bank’s […]

Peter Marais, Western Cape MEC for Local Government, in The Mark Gevisser Profile I will testify, before a court of law, that Western Cape MEC for Local Government Peter Marais was stone- cold sober when, at the end of our interview, he launched into a serenade that included a hip-rotating Elvis impersonation, some Johnny Mathis […]