Vuyo Mvoko CLARENCE MAKWETU, re-elected president of the Pan Africanist Congress, has always drawn criticism from other parties, but none has been as harsh as the criticism he got from his own party during its congress last weekend. Although wary of inflicting more wounds on their party, delegates made no secret of their dissatisfaction. Fumed […]

The softest whispers are often the loudest. The meagre turn-out at the last official Day of the Vow commemorations was a thunderous condemnation of the state of the rightwing, reports Jan Taljaard AT the end of a year of turmoil, trauma and intimations of volkstaat born from apocalyptical destruction, all that remained on December 16 […]

The ANC conference hammered home to delegates that power comes hand-in-hand with responsibility, writes Gaye Davis ANC DELEGATES may have left the organisation’s 49th national conference more united and motivated than ever before — but the coming months will prove no easy walk. In a sense, the ANC has bought itself some time: grassroots delegates […]

The government is still basking in the afterglow of the elections. It has delivered many bold ideas — but nothing concrete yet. Anton Harber reports

The only method of transaction that makes sense in South Africa is the introduction of Smart cards, reports Jacques Magliolo THE 1990s has been called the electronic age by computer experts, while economists and politicians alike have excitedly hailed the coming of the global village. Yet as much as 80 percent of all South African […]

Farouk Chothia: Durban KWAZULU/NATAL chiefs have received an increased stipend since April in what appears to be a move on the Inkatha Freedom Party’s part to retain their loyalty in the post- election era, it emerged this week. This disclosure comes amid further signs that Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini is battling to prise chiefs — […]

FINE ART: Ivor Powell A COUPLE of weeks ago I had some things that were not exactly brimming with goodwill to say about the kind of art exhibitions one encounters in the Christmas season. Well, it turns out I have to eat my words before I get to eat my turkey or brandy pudding. Anything […]

Terence Moll FORMER Reserve Bank governor Gerhard de Kock once severely criticised South African businessmen, calling them inept in controlling company spending and simply not able to understand fundamental economic principles. The highly respected governor is on record as having said: “At the start of an economic upswing, our businessmen spend as if boom times […]

Moveable Feast Marino Corazza YOU are what you eat; we’re also what we drink. But what the statement really should say is: “We are what they want us to eat and drink.” Through the passage of time, we, the human race, went and lost it — the original tree of knowledge, the magic mushroom. Terence […]