The Foundation for=20 Peace and Justice witheld=20 Danish funding for a Karoo=20 preschool association, reports=20 Justin Pearce in Cape Town AS the investigation into the allegations of misuse of=20 funding by Dr Allan Boesak’s Foundation for Peace and=20 Justice draws to a close, the Weekly Mail & Guardian=20 has obtained further evidence of foreign donor […]

A Zairean businessman has caused a storm=20 with his Berea-based communication network, reports=20 Annie Mapoma AN enterprising Zairean businessman has set up a=20 communication network in a Berea house to connect=20 expatriates to friends, family and businesses back=20 Zaireans are flocking to the offices of Full Business=20 Services, at 87 Honey Street, for fast, cheap=20 […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin THE opening shot of a lake and mountains in Lee Tamahori’s Once Were Warriors is seminal. Throughout the film it sticks in the memory as an image of a once tranquil world that has been lost. Within a space of a few seconds, the camera tracks back to reveal crowded streets and […]

Critical Consumer Pat Sidley A PROPOSED new health care system, one of the ANC’s key=20 election promises, is the topic of hot debate at the=20 moment almost everywhere that counts: within the ANC,=20 the government of national unity, parliament, various=20 think tanks on health policy, the Department of Health=20 and among all health care professionals. […]

For new National Commissioner of Police George Fivaz,=20 dealing with the past involves a retreat to the future.=20 He spoke to Mark Gevisser=20 IN private circles, George Fivaz likes to tell the=20 following story: when he was a young policeman and a=20 post in the Security Police was considered a sharp=20 career move, he applied […]

Weekly Mail Reporter ALMOST three quarters of the executives of the Top 100 companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange have no faith in the reconstruction and development programme, the ANC’s grand plan to put right the wrongs left by apartheid. This is the finding of the annual business environment survey conducted by Unisa’s Bureau […]

Native tongue Bafana Khumalo THIS is a profound apology to all of media consuming=20 South Africa. I am sorry, I never meant any of the=20 things that appeared under my byline in this=20 publication. They were at the behest of a white,=20 middle-aged, male editor that I said all of those=20 things. You know that […]

Weekly Mail Reporter THE chief does not reign. He rules. He allocates land=20 to his subjects for a fee. He presides over a tribal=20 court to pass sentence on minor offenders. He decides=20 where schools can be built and where boreholes can be=20 The chief is the supreme ruler over his subjects: they=20 either submit […]

Justin Pearce in Cape Town ASSASSINATIONS in squatter camps and high-handed=20 manoeuvrings by an Eastern Cape MEC: these two=20 occurrences in the Western Cape in the past week have=20 more in common than meets the eye. Both threaten the process of local government=20 transformation, but in a way that may not be obvious:=20 the National […]

BOXING: Gavin Evans THE notion of a “Great Black Hope” may seem a little odd in South Africa — particularly in a sport where blacks outnumber whites by nine to one — but boxing’s 1995 Prospect of the Year is not shy about embracing this dubious label. Courage Tshabalala shrugs his massive shoulders, nods his […]