Eddie Koch WHY did only black workers die in last week’s tragedy? The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) says it is because racial segregation is still rife on the mines. The charge is denied by the owners of the Vaal Reefs Gold Mine. Union officials say black and white mineworkers are hoisted separately on many […]
Stefaans Brummer DEPUTY Minister of Constitutional Affairs Mohammed Valli Moosa this week intervened in the border dispute between Eastern Transvaal Premier Mathews Phosa and Nothern Transvaal Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi. It is understood Moosa’s move to resolve the dispute over Bushbuckridge — part of the former Lebowa and Gazankulu homelands at present demarcated in the Northern […]
THEATRE: David Le Page FARCE in South Africa has come to mean, typically, an=20 evening of imported bourgeois Anglo-Saxon capers –=20 romantic, sexual and ridiculous. However, the Anglo-Saxons=20 are not deeply into muti, and so they’ve never been=20 inspired by a love potion called Afrodizzia to an evening=20 of leap-frogging, overlapping and incongruous infatuations.=20 But […]
Three new books on the 1950s freeze history in photographs,=20 HAZEL FRIEDMAN. Is this a valuable lesson or just wallowing=20 in nostalgia? FOR each of us there is a special time and place on which=20 is indelibly stamped the word “golden”. Part reality, part=20 myth — the rough edges and contradictions blurred by=20 memory — […]
Indigent people may soon gain wider access to legal representation, reports Justin Pearce Contingency fees — where lawyers are only paid if they win the case — could soon be officially recognised. This will enable the poor to invoke the power of the law without the financial risk of losing a case. Although contingency fees […]
Pieter Schoombee argues that the life assurance industry is=20 often far from transparent THE fat cats on the assurance industry gravy train are=20 notoriously touchy about criticism, as Dorian Wharton-Hood=20 so insultingly illustrates in the Mail & Guardian’s April=20 21 to 27 issue. Big assurance business has evidently decided that Professor=20 George Marx is getting […]
Moveable Feast Jean-Pierre Rossouw OF course, food should mix with art and wine at every=20 street corner of the Cape. Unfortunately, this is a popular=20 legend that no longer holds any reality. It may have been=20 true a couple of decades ago, but we Capetonians have to be=20 honest, and say that much now rides […]
Anouk Mommer Fathers of children born out of wedlock will soon have a fair chance to gain access rights. The Minister of Justice has referred a number of important recommendations of the Law Commisssion to Parliament in the form of a draft Bill. Fathers currently have no rights over children born out of wedlock — […]
Reg Rumney The acronym of the new body representing the philanthropic=20 companies who give money=20 to deserving causes, Saga, seems apt. The South African=20 Grantmakers’ Association was launched this week, with 33=20 paid-up members, after a four-year gestation. Saga aims to bring some professionalism to grant-making and=20 give legitimacy to corporate social investment (CSI).=20 This, […]
Justin Pearce Argus Newspapers’ new Sunday paper, aimed at taking a bite out of The Sunday Times’ market in Gauteng, will be named the Sunday Independent and launched on June 25. The choice of title — which has not yet been officially disclosed by the company — appears to be a first step towards a […]