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 […]

Farouk Chothia TENSIONS surfaced between kwaZulu/Natal safety and=20 security MEC Celani Mtetwa and his colleagues in the=20 Inkatha Freedom Party over the planned graduation today=20 of about 500 recruits into the kwaZulu Police (KZP). Although he has a reputation as a hardliner, Mtetwa has=20 taken a softer line than IFP national parliamentarians=20 Velaphi Ndlovu and […]

Gavin Evans IT is one of those abiding South African ironies that a=20 man who was banned and house-arrested for supporting=20 independent trade unions should become the key player=20 in rewriting the country’s labour law. But in Halton Cheadle’s case, the story verges from the=20 familiar. There is no “it takes one to catch one”=20 […]

Scope: All workers, whether engaged in the private or=20 public sector — with the exception of members of the=20 police, intelligence services and defence force –=20 covered by a single Act. Bargaining councils: Collective bargaining over wages=20 and working conditions between representative unions=20 and employer bodies promoted at bargaining councils. No=20 duty to bargain but […]

Fashionable and cool — or aids to spiritual enlightenment? Malu van Leeuwen investigates Capetonians’ penchant for tattoos `TATTOOS Get You Sex” boasts a T-shirt walking around Cape Town. It’s an old gimmick, using the promise of sex to market the product. But there’s life yet in the tired cliche — because whether it’s piercing or […]

The Labour Relations Bill, just released for public=20 debate, will turn the current system on its head.=20 Clive Thompson analyses it The 1995 Labour Relations Bill promises a third=20 revolution in South African labour law. The first was=20 in 1924, which saw the first comprehensive labour=20 statute in the wake of the Rand Revolt; 1979 […]

Bank directors had to expose their dirty washing for public scrutiny this week and they were far from pleased, reports Jacques Magliolo This week’s historic meeting to hear publicly South Africa’s top four banks’ bid for the R10-billion contract to administer the Gauteng council’s financial affairs will be remembered as the catalyst which set in […]

South Africa needs a new healthy policy, writes researcher Alex van den Heever. But is the proposed National Health Insurance appropriate? THE possible introduction of some form of National Health Insurance (NHI) in South Africa would involve a major shift in emphasis from the way in which health service is presently structured. It is worth […]

Residents of Kathorus will get their homes back, writes Mduduzi ka Harvey. But where will the illegal occupants live now? THERE’S a ray of hope for more than 2 000 Kathorus families who were forced to flee their homes because of political violence between Inkatha Freedom Party hostel dwellers and ANC-aligned residents in the East […]

The National Party’s congress was a slick show but it will take more than a good stage performance to restore the NP to its former state, reports Gaye Davis ENERGETIC tannies boogying to township jive, black speakers prefacing their inputs with cries of “Viva, NP, viva!”, the multi-lingual phrase booklet in every delegate’s blue congress […]