Despite two losses, South Africa are showing plenty of promise, except when it comes to handling the referee RUGBY: Jon Swift `SEAN FITZPATRICK,” remarked South African coach Andre Markgraaff dryly, “tends to have that effect on people.” The reference was to the now infamous head-butt laid on the All Black skipper by John Allan in […]
Rob Davies discusses the implications of a free trade agreement for South Africa’s neighbours with Lynda Loxton As the South African government continues to finalise its mandate for negotiations with the European Union on a free trade agreement (FTA), the ramifications of such a deal are becoming more complicated. African National Congress MP and trade […]
The world has learnt some sobering lessons about intervention in civil conflicts in the past few years. The United States experience in Somalia led to a consensus that it was foolhardy for an international power to intervene when the political groundwork had not been done beforehand. Peacekeeping could only work when the parties wanted a […]
delivery Tebello Radebe Private developers look set to be next in line for criticism over slow housing delivery. So far, the government and the banks have borne the brunt of most of the attacks. A report by the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), the focus of a housing workshop in Johannesburg next week, recommends that […]
Chris McGreal in Kigali Burundi’s beleaguered Hutu president, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, has sought refuge at the United States ambassador’s residence in the capital, Bujumbura, and appears ready to relinquish office amid fears that he could become the third successive leader of his country to be assassinated. The overwhelmingly Tutsi army denied this week that there had […]
Lynda Loxton A leading member of the South African Communist Party has called on the government to take tough action to stop the “investment strike” by the private sector. African National Congress MP and SACP central executive committee member Philip Dexter told the Mail & Guardian that business seemed intent on pitting members of the […]
Mail & Guardian Reporters THE Constitutional Court this week cleared a hurdle which barred potential amnesty applicants from confessing their crimes. The court on Thursday shot down a bid by families of leading apartheid victims to have sections of the National Unity and Reconciliation Act — which robs victims of their right to civil and […]
A feud between Iscor and a Namibian businesswoman over a zinc mine has taken a new twist, reports Mungo Soggot A Namibian zinc mine is the focus of an acrimonious billion-rand battle between the daughter of a German Jew who fled the Nazis to prospect in Africa and steel giant Iscor. When Mose Kahan on […]
Leading into the the last round of a major tournament is one of the greatest tests of nerves, especially if it’s the British Open GOLF: Mark Lamport-Stokes AMERICAN golfer Mike Reid, on leading the 1989 US PGA going into the decisive fourth round, expressed a common human reaction to the pressure-cooker situation in which he […]
Eddie Koch A COALITION of environmental organisations will launch a supreme court challenge to force the Department of Trade and Industries (DTI) to divulge details about hazardous waste still coming into South Africa, despite repeated assurances from the government that it will ban all toxic imports. Last month Green Party politicians in the Europe Union […]