Reg Rumney Crime and violence have pushed their way to the top of the list of business people’s concerns. Business respondents to the Weekly Mail & Guardian survey put prevention of crime and violence as the top priority of the Government of National Unity (38 percent of respondents). Job creation is second, and ensuring delivery […]

Dr Sibongile Zungu in the Mark Gevisser profile Something quite miraculous happens to Dr Sibongile Zungu, nkosi of the Madlebe tribe, when she dons her chiefly regalia: the rather frumpish, prematurely-matronlike woman, swaddled in a faux-kente caftan, transforms into the coquettish ntombi; flirtatious and swaggering in equal measure. Previously, sitting inside her classically bourgeois living-room […]

Steven Ntuli Labour Minister Tito Mboweni is struggling to find workers for his department. The problem, he says, is that he pays too little. The former trade union leader made this candid admission at an impromptu speech at Rhodes University this week. ”I am struggling to get black workers to work at the department because […]

Gaye Davis WOMEN in Parliament have a doubly loaded agenda. They bear the hopes and dreams of millions of South African women wanting a better life — and the responsibility for making sure the constitution’s great-sounding new clauses become more than just paper guarantees. Yet, a year down the line, they still lack the basic […]

With Kenya and Italy sending weak teams local athletes won’t really be facing much competition this weekend ATHLETICS: Julian Drew THE curtain comes down on the domestic athletics season in Cape Town tomorrow with the first athletics Test match in South Africa since 1966. Italy and Kenya will compete against a South African team and […]

Peter Rorvik THE Tuesday weather map depicted a pair of cold fronts heading up from the Atlantic, with rain and cold expected at Splashy Fen. Well, it got cold but, unlike last year, it didn’t rain. In fact, there were some glorious sunny spells at the festival last weekend– people swam in the river every […]

In his May Day message, Cosatu general secretary Sam Shilowa outlined the trade union movement’s concerns over the new Labour Relations Bill. This is an edited version of his speech. The often-stated objective of the (new Labour Relations) legislation (LRA) is to give workers rights, minimise conflict on the shop floor and provide for the […]

The lives of people in KwaZulu/Natal have been shaped for more than five years by the politics of the graveyard. When some political leaders want their way, it has become habitual for them to use violence and threaten more of it. It is no exaggeration to say the constitution of the country’s problem province is […]

THEATRE: Guy Willoughby=20 IT’S nearly two months to go before the World Rugby Cup,=20 and Paul Slabolepszy’s getting in early. The country’s=20 chief analyst of the white male ego couldn’t hope for a=20 better setting, and in his rumbustious new comedy Heel=20 Against the Head (at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town) he=20 scores nearly […]