Native tongue Bafana Khumalo I HAD a great holiday season, I really did and it is great to be happy, I discovered. This was a holiday season when I decided to go mainstream. Instead of getting depressing videos to watch until January 2, I went out and joined the throngs of shoppers in town going […]
Mapula Sibanda THE 330 guns handed in during the Gun-Free South Africa Campaign represent a drop in the ocean in relation to the 3,25-million arms owned by South Africans. According to South African Police Services representative Major Sally de Beer, almost two million South Africans are registered licence holders, some owning more than one gun. […]
Crime exists in South Africa — no one is arguing about that, writes criminologist Daniel Nina. The question is whether tough measures will deal with it THE liberal press call it “Public Enemy No 1”. Many social sectors are calling to end the moratorium on the death penalty. The well-off and poor communities are scared: […]
It was a New Year party of a different kind when hundreds of people broke through the barriers at the border post between South Africa and Mozambique HUNDREDS of returning Mozambican workers broke down gates at an unmanned crossing point along the South African/Mozambican border on New Year’s Day and passed unchecked into South Africa. […]
AMID all the gloom of Department of Education and Training matric results, there were some schools that shone with excellent results. A total of 34 DET schools had 100 percent pass rates. Of these, 20 were in kwaZulu/Natal. These 34 tops schools are: KwaZulu/Natal Buhlebethu School Domino Servite High School Drakensberg High School Enzamweni Secondary […]
A chemical plant developing nerve gas was one of the front companies set up by the SADF, writes Eddie Koch THE South African Defence Force conducted an expensive programme to test and develop state-of-the-art nerve gases at a secret plant called Delta G in Midrand near Johannesburg as part of a chemical warfare programme that […]
Two South African businessmen — one big, one small — show the gap in expectations of the new South Africa. Ann Eveleth reports Ahmed-Sadek Vahed can’t stop smiling when he talks about the new South Africa. Executive officer of what is probably South Africa’s largest family-owned business outside the JSE, the Durban-based AM Moola Group, […]
The Judicial Service Commission failed to meet the demands of an open society, argues one of its members, law professor Etienne Mureinik. He proposes a set of laws that would help break the culture of secrecy OUR interim constitution affirms the goal of openness in government more strongly than does any other respected constitution. Probably […]
hundreds of thousands of rand into a top-secret trust hidden from his donors and trustees. Pat Sidley and Justin Pearce report THE Weekly Mail & Guardian has discovered that Dr Allan Boesak and some of his close colleagues set up a trust for business operations, so secret his donors and trustees didn’t know about it. […]
With South African artists now participating in most major international festivals and our own Johannesburg Biennale on the horizon, Ivor Powell asks: how good are we really? DURING the years when South Africans were banned from the big world party, we kept ourselves going on a distinctly unhealthy cultural diet. Its substance was our own […]