Take the world’s highest homicide rate. Add a shocking salary structure and go-slow force. Allow to simmer and you’ve got a blueprint for mayhem, reports Stefaans Simmering police discontent had to boil over, adding steam to the pressure cooker of a society reeling from the world’s worst crime wave. Even the hurried appointment this week […]
Inge Ruigrok South African doctors are following international trends and calling for dagga to be legalised for limited medical use here — although its illegal status and cultural prejudices against its use make the local research needed to back this change extremely Cape Town neurologist and researcher, Professor Frances Ames, says up to 70 percent […]
Anton Harber ponders the political future of arch-populist Winnie Mandela, now free to speak her mind Watch Tokyo Sexwale. He’s our one true television politician, the master of the sound bite. “We love you,” he said this week, clearly referring to Winnie Mandela, though not by name. “We love you. Don’t abuse our love.” It […]
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It’s not one of Tony O’Reilly’s 57 varieties, and you won’t find it in an Angela Day recipe book. It’s also kind of tricky to inhale … but soon to be available overseas is marijuana salad dressing. Those who have tasted it say it leaves Thousand Island in the dust. The oil is one of […]
THE Restitution of Land Rights Act passed through parliament in November last year. It allows for the creation of a Land Claims Court and a five-member commission to hear claims by groups who suffered at the hands of apartheid forced removals. The commission, which has already been appointed, has regional offices in each of the […]
All has been relatively quiet on the industrial action=20 front so far this year. Reg Rumney reports.=20 Strike action has been relatively subdued so far this=20 year — but it is early days. Man days lost in the first=20 quarter of this year are low compared to the first=20 quarter of last year, according to […]
Ignorance and greed are behind the plunder of cycads in the Eastern Cape, writes Shadley Nash Ten percent of the cycad species E Altenstienii and the rarer Trispionsis face extinction in a scandal which has horrified environmentalists and revealed a startling ignorance of environmental matters inside Thirty-two tons of the rare and endangered plants — […]
Controversy continues to dog the proposed truth commission as the ANC and NP blame each other for delays, reports Gaye Davis A ROW between the National Party and Justice Minister Dullah Omar over accusations that the NP was delaying truth commission legislation erupted this week. This has put paid to hopes that the bill would […]
Despite all Derek Hanekom’s efforts the ANC might well have to resort to ‘radical measures’ to solve the land issue, argues Richard Levin WHEN white farmers reacted with outrage recently at plans to introduce a land tax in the countryside, Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom made a simple appeal to them: give the landless some […]