Mapula Sibanda A BUS boycott seems to be the spark that set off last=20 week’s violence at Vaal Reef’s No 8 Shaft in which 12=20 people were killed and 36 admitted to hospital, three=20 with critical injuries; 62 miners were treated for=20 minor injuries and discharged.=20 The boycott started in September last year, after a=20 […]

Justin Pearce THE Western Cape education department made a dramatic=20 about-face this week to concur with the National=20 Education Crisis Committee over the utilisation of=20 unused former school buildings. The department has recognised schools created when the=20 NECC arranged for students to occupy unused classrooms=20 in District Six in defiance of official policy. After a […]

Students at Unisa are being taught old-style=20 Verwoerdian values, reports Pat Sidley `THERE ought to be a single education department for=20 all education on the central level. Differentiation=20 should only be introduced on the next level through the=20 creation of four education departments for the four=20 main population groups. “For education to take place, the […]

With his talent and tenacity Brian McMillan is an all- rounder who will be around for a good whil e yet CRICKET: Luke Alfred WHAT do Brian McMillan and Orson Welles have in common? They both do public relations work for Nashua. In McMillan’s case he works for Nashua in Cape Town, the result of […]

Media and marketing Clive Simpkins THE frequent dissonance between corporate advertising and coal-face contact with an organisation is fascinating. Pretoria, over several months last year, ran a series of press ads designed to woo and seduce the sceptical into accepting it as the home of our Tutu-esque rainbow nation parliament. The campaign extolled the virtues […]

ATHLETICS: Julian Drew ON Saturday the country’s top middle distance athletes will do battle to secure a team berth from the remaining places still on offer for the world cross country championships in Durham, England on March 25. But while there may be a welcome respite in the chance to exchange the winter sport of […]

THE African National Congress (ANC) voiced concern this=20 week that the Inkatha Freedom Party’s (IFP) rejection=20 of local government elections in tribal areas will deny=20 the majority of the province’s population the vote. ANC local government head in kwaZulu/Natal Mike=20 Sutcliffe said the IFP still has no plans to register=20 an estimated 2,7-million African voters […]

The old laager mentality is raising its ugly head again=20 in the form of xenophobia. Eddie Koch and=20 Accadoga Chiledi report SOUTH Africa’s landscape is littered with bronze and=20 stone statues of ox-wagons drawn into a circle to=20 defend those on the inside from a marauding band on the=20 outside. There is no need to […]

The Urban Foundation closed its doors on Tuesday=20 18 years after it was founded in response to the=20 Soweto uprising. It was a controversial organisation=20 but, writes chief executive Sam van Coller, it=20 changed the way we think — and work SHUTTING down the Urban Foundation, emptying the=20 offices, watching the staff disperse to other […]

Insurance agents who prey on the ignorance of rural=20 clients are wasting huge amounts of public savings,=20 writes Jimmy Roth IN the last six months of 1994 the Grahamstown Black=20 Sash Advice office assisted 157 rural people with their=20 insurance policies. In the vast majority of cases,=20 agents misrepresented the nature of the policy to=20 […]