Ann Eveleth INKATHA Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi strongly hinted this week that his party would quit the Government of National Unity in the next few weeks, leaving the African National Congress to rule South Africa alone in the run-up to the 1999 elections. Buthelezi told the Mail & Guardian he would support a […]
The Constitutional Court must heed the dangers involved in giving corporations the same rights as individuals, argues American consumer advocate Ralph Nader SOUTH Africans should be aware that a key provision of the new Constitution risks entrenching a new form of power abuse in the country: autocratic rule by big corporations. The new Constitution establishes […]
There were some stutters in Tuesday’s match, but there were signs that the new Springbok team can live up to South Africa’s world champions status RUGBY: Jon Swift ANDRE MARKGRAAFF, the man charged with shaping the South African rugby side, was at some pains to dispel any idea of the South African XV playing festival […]
Hazel Friedman `Love sandwiches” are among the sizzling “snacks” being sampled in Biodanza, a series of caress sessions being held at a martial arts centre in Parkhurst and the latest feel-good fad to hit South Africa. Biodanza’s devotees describe it as “dances with passion and vitality” and a means of getting in touch with the […]
Simon Segal THE consensus forecast from 10 of South Africa’s major economic units is that gross domestic product (gdp) growth is still short of what is required to absorb people coming on to the labour market — and that it will slow next year. Sluggish and slowing growth will result in lower interest rates but […]
Justin Pearce While emigration may mean booming business for some, there is no clear evidence of a flood of people leaving the country in the past few months. A phone around the diplomatic missions of the destinations popular with South African emigrants – — Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom — showed that […]
The Wall may have fallen, but Germany has yet to resolve its post-war economic problems. David Gow reports from Bonn The German social market economy, engine of the country’s post-war renaissance, may have run out of steam well before the fall of the Wall, but the political battle to preserve its soul is only now […]
David Beresford It was not quite Noah’s Ark. But the ecstatic look on the face of the Israeli, Shai Doron, sitting in a tent on a KwaZulu-Natal hillside last weekend must have been there on the face of the patriarch when the animals tripped in two-by-two. Doron, the director of the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem, […]
Iden Wetherell in Harare PROPERTY owners in Harare’s upmarket Borrowdale suburb whose homes overlook an estate used by President Robert Mugabe as a weekend retreat have been told to sell their properties to the government for “security reasons”. But they say they are only being offered half the market value. The 12-hectare estate, including an […]
A check-up on just who TML journalists have been calling from their phones at work caused an outrage, reports Stefaans BrUmmer TIMES Media Limited — owner of the Sunday Times, Business Day and other titles — this week apologised to reporters after being accused of tactics “reminiscent of the former security branch” in compromising confidential […]