Tebello Radebe Mpho Mokwana, equal opportunities director at the Ministry of Labour, has strongly defended the right of the government to propose strict penalties and fines against companies that will not comply with affirmative action laws, despite recommendations by the recent Labour Market Commission report. “We cannot have laws for the sake of having them, […]
BORIS YELTSIN urged Russian voters not to allow their “grievances and tiredness” to sway the vote. But what if Boris himself is too tired? It may only be a sore throat, but Yeltsin’s backers must be on their knees and praying hard. They are faced with an unpalatable scenario. What happens if Yeltsin’s sore throat […]
BOXING: Gavin Evans THE first and last time Sugarboy Malinga and Vincenzo Nardinello met it was all hugs, kisses and fun and games in foreign accents. Fun’n’games, in fact, is one of the things this Italian enjoys most about the fight game, even when he is on the wrong side of a beating, as he […]
“During the apartheid era there was no channel for negotiation. Now that there is such a channel, students don’t have to protest immediately, when something is wrong” — Benedict Radebe, 19, BSc first year “A lot of the protesting isn’t justified. Here at Wits, it hasn’t been about genuine student grievances, but more about a […]
HOME Affairs’ highly paid special adviser Mario Ambrosini has been taking some time off during the past two weeks to keep tabs on KwaZulu-Natal’s progress at the Constitutional Court. (Perish the thought that either he or his boss, Mangosuthu Buthhelezi, would do party work on government time). Last week he was popping in and out […]
Singing along with Mariah Carey is no challenge, as Brian Logan discovered at her first-ever concert in London MARIAH CAREY once said about her video for the single Fantasy: “It’s difficult wearing all those hats, but the positive results were worth it.” By this standard, the UK debut of the top-selling recording artist of the […]
Despite the uncovering of the Venona Intercepts, Joseph McCarthy was a fink, argues Pallo Jordan During the late 1950s, as a high-school student drawn into the milieu of the left, I was given a book by an older comrade, who confided that it would set me straight on the “Trots” and other left-wing critics of […]
Angella Johnson The young tracker was apologetic. “You wouldn’t believe it. Last Friday we recovered seven stolen cars, today not one live one.” Cruising at a cool 200km/h about 2 000m above some of Johannesburg’s crime spots, we were on the lookout for two vehicles stolen in the Johannesburg area over the weekend. I had […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy A Cape Town-based Muslim community radio station is being hauled before the Independent Broadcasting Authority following an alleged contravention of its licence conditions. Voice of the Cape, which shares air-time with Radio 786, is to appear before the IBA’s Broadcasting Monitoring and Complaints Committee (BMCC) on July 9 for allegedly failing to inform […]
The Inkatha Freedom Party is planning to oust some of its top political representatives following its election defeat in KwaZulu-Natal’s main cities, the province’s economic heartland. Party members will also debate whether to form an alliance with either the National Party or the African National Congress. IFP leaders said the party was expected to do […]