Controversy continues to dog the proposed truth commission as the ANC and NP blame each other for delays, reports Gaye Davis A ROW between the National Party and Justice Minister Dullah Omar over accusations that the NP was delaying truth commission legislation erupted this week. This has put paid to hopes that the bill would […]
Despite all Derek Hanekom’s efforts the ANC might well have to resort to ‘radical measures’ to solve the land issue, argues Richard Levin WHEN white farmers reacted with outrage recently at plans to introduce a land tax in the countryside, Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom made a simple appeal to them: give the landless some […]
THEATRE: David Le Page=20 IN the second act of The Twilight of the Golds, Phyllis=20 Gold suggests that the information age confuses people=20 with too much knowledge irrelevant to their experience.=20 This confusion could be ended if we just ”listened to=20 our hearts”, she says. Unfortunately, though The=20 Twilight of the Golds is highly topical […]
Bronwen Roberts Angry women’s groups are threatening to run a boycott campaign against Grahamstown stores which stock soft- porn magazines and posters. Several women attending a Rape Action Project panel discussion in the town on Tuesday night called for boycott action against sex magazines. A member of the audience said increasing numbers of children were […]
CINEMA: William Pretorius SOONER or later, I guess, we’d all like to turn into our=20 favourite cartoon character. As nerdish bank clerk=20 Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask, Jim Carrey turns anarchic=20 when he puts on a magic Nordic mask personifying the god=20 of mischief, banished from Valhalla and accidentally=20 released from the sea. The Mask, […]
Absent talent: Super 10 and World Cup keep top players=20 away from festival in Hong Kong RUGBY: Barney Spender IT’S that time of the year again when, for one mad=20 weekend, the serious business of grinding 15-man rugby is=20 put on the back burner and in its place hops the rather=20 frisky and entirely unserious […]
Critical Consumer Pat Sidley IT IS a commonly held view that South African consumers are ignorant, apathetic and don’t stand up for themselves. There is good reason for thinking this at times — particularly when well-educated, well-heeled consumers who know the ropes of life don’t take up the challenge of bad service, sue for medical […]
New evidence has surfaced suggesting links between Armscor and Ulster loyalist paramilitaries, reports Stefaans Brummer Top South African lawyers returned this week from Belfast in Northern Ireland with fresh evidence of collusion between Armscor and Ulster paramiliary groups. Now the Cameron Commission, which is investigating irregular Armscor deals, will be asked to extend its probe […]
Weekly Mail & Guardian Reporters Coloureds are being discriminated against in the private sector’s affirmative action (AA) scramble for African faces, particularly in lower level jobs, say leading personnel agencies. Although AA theoretically benefits all disadvantaged people, the majority of companies want Africans, and agencies often use factors like language, place of residence, education, and […]
Moveable Feast Marino Corazza IN time I’ll have the guts to rip Africa out of my heart.=20 I have this strange romantic notion that I’ll retire in=20 Sardinia. Not as the Aga Khan’s neighbour on the Costa=20 Smerelda, but at some forgotten spot on the coast,=20 surrounded by silver granite, fragrant woods, craggy=20 reefs, emerald-clear […]