It was a New Year party of a different kind when hundreds of people broke through the barriers at the border post between South Africa and Mozambique HUNDREDS of returning Mozambican workers broke down gates at an unmanned crossing point along the South African/Mozambican border on New Year’s Day and passed unchecked into South Africa. […]
AMID all the gloom of Department of Education and Training matric results, there were some schools that shone with excellent results. A total of 34 DET schools had 100 percent pass rates. Of these, 20 were in kwaZulu/Natal. These 34 tops schools are: KwaZulu/Natal Buhlebethu School Domino Servite High School Drakensberg High School Enzamweni Secondary […]
A chemical plant developing nerve gas was one of the front companies set up by the SADF, writes Eddie Koch THE South African Defence Force conducted an expensive programme to test and develop state-of-the-art nerve gases at a secret plant called Delta G in Midrand near Johannesburg as part of a chemical warfare programme that […]
Two South African businessmen — one big, one small — show the gap in expectations of the new South Africa. Ann Eveleth reports Ahmed-Sadek Vahed can’t stop smiling when he talks about the new South Africa. Executive officer of what is probably South Africa’s largest family-owned business outside the JSE, the Durban-based AM Moola Group, […]
The Judicial Service Commission failed to meet the demands of an open society, argues one of its members, law professor Etienne Mureinik. He proposes a set of laws that would help break the culture of secrecy OUR interim constitution affirms the goal of openness in government more strongly than does any other respected constitution. Probably […]
hundreds of thousands of rand into a top-secret trust hidden from his donors and trustees. Pat Sidley and Justin Pearce report THE Weekly Mail & Guardian has discovered that Dr Allan Boesak and some of his close colleagues set up a trust for business operations, so secret his donors and trustees didn’t know about it. […]
With South African artists now participating in most major international festivals and our own Johannesburg Biennale on the horizon, Ivor Powell asks: how good are we really? DURING the years when South Africans were banned from the big world party, we kept ourselves going on a distinctly unhealthy cultural diet. Its substance was our own […]
Derek Fleming THE National Party is caught up in a power struggle between factions led by Constitutional Development Minister Roelf Meyer and his rival, Environment and Tourism Minister Dawie de Villiers. The two men are gearing up to do battle for political turf and it is expected the contest will come to a head at […]
SAILING: Jonathan Spencer Jones AS IF a reprisal for the windless conditions of the first leg of the BOC Challenge singlehanded around the world race, the second leg, which has taken the entrants from Cape Town to Sydney, Australia, was one of almost continuous gales from which few of the yachts have escaped damage. But […]
Drew Forrest THE National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) must serve as the economic equivalent of the World Trade Centre negotiations, says Nedlac’s newly appointed executive director Jayendra Naidoo. This means mapping out “far-reaching, society-wide agendas, rather than getting bogged down in ad hoc trade-offs and short-term trouble-shooting”. Speaking from Norway, where he is […]