Ann Eveleth Rural voters in 22 KwaZulu-Natal communities have threatened to boycott next month’s elections if democratic reforms are not introduced in their areas, the Association for Rural Advancement (Afra) said this week,. The communities — representing about 20 000 voters in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands and north-west regions — called on Local Government MEC Peter […]

The District Six Museum is a memorial to the evils of the Group Areas Act, but its survival is threatened by the government’s lack of support, writes Rehana Rossouw ALTHOUGH memorials celebrating Afrikaner history receive millions of rands of support, the government has only been prepared to make a one-off payment of R200 000 for […]

Consumer confidence may be buoyant, but manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers are concerned that the credit spending spree will be short-lived. Lynda Loxton reports While most economists are still bullish about the economy, the latest round of surveys by the University of Stellenbosch’s Bureau for Economic Research (BER) send out worrying signals about future growth. Consumer […]

The Constitutional Assembly has spent millions of rands encouraging people to involve themselves in the writing of a new fundamental law for our country. Often this campaign has looked like no more than an advertising agency empowerment exercise, and there is little evidence that anyone in the CA gave more than a cursory glance to […]

exploitation In advertising one ‘must use whatever one can to make whatever point one needs’. But are children abused by this system? A decision by the Olympic Bid to use the photograph of an impoverished child in its ad campaign has sparked a debate on the ethics of using children in marketing. Jacquie Golding- Duffy […]

Holes are appearing in the story of the ‘professional climber’ chosen to lead a South African Everest expedition, write Mike Loewe and Mungo Soggot A curious picture began to emerge this week of Ian Woodall, the mountaineer who was to have led a South African expedition to glory on the summit of Mount Everest. The […]

After a couple of years in the wilderness, Marius van Heerden is firmly back in the limelight after breaking the South African 800m record ATHLETICS: Julian Drew THREE years ago Marius van Heerden approached the new athletics season full of optimism. He was one of this country’s rising new stars who, the previous year, had […]

‘Advertisements’ like the one below are popping up in publications around the world. Now the M&G joins in The Fear Project Hazel Friedman ADAM BROOMBERG knows what it is like to be shit-scared. Literally. Or, rather, he has a mediated understanding of it from reading articles on experiments in which white mice were exposed to […]

The truth commission hearings in the Western Cape might have missed the full picture of human rights abuses committed there, Rehana Rossouw reports UNITED Democratic Front (UDF) activists, who bore the brunt of the state’s iron fist in the Western Cape, did not show up at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s hearings in Cape Town […]

seeming fair Clients often complain that they lost their court case because the judge was biased. When are they to be taken seriously? MOST lawyers have heard their unsuccessful clients complain, after their case was lost, about the judge who decided against them. If the complaint is merely that the judge was an idiot, then […]