Jacque Magliolo reports on the listing of Nthato Motlana’s New Africa Investments THE listing of New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) brought a cheer from JSE dealers. However, sentiment is already waning with speculation bandied around the corridors of the JSE that the share cannot retain the high attained at listing in weeks to come. Stockbrokers […]

Behind this week’s strike by Natal hospital staffers lies a growing gulf between workers and their union, reports Farouk Chothia STRIKING hospital employees at Durban’s King Edward VIII Hospital were warned this week that they risked losing their union membership if they defied calls to return to work. National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union […]

The motor industry strike has highlighted the big weaknesses in the local industry. Reg Rumney reports HALF a percentage point here or there may not seem a great deal over which to wage a prolonged strike. And while a host of political factors has probably had something to do with the stance of the National […]

SOUTH AFRICANS need to become more used to vigorous political exchange. Why is it so terrible, as PWV premier Tokyo Sexwale suggested in his attack this week on certain “liberal newspapers”, if a columnist uses “innuendo”? Is this not a legitimate traditional weapon of writers? Why, on the other hand, does the community of journalists […]

Pat Sidley ONE of the last vestiges of apartheid within the church has come to an end. The Apostolic Faith Mission which has always had separate churches for the different races of its adherents has decided to unite. The process began some time ago and was expected to drag on for longer than it has. […]

CRITICAL CONSUMER Pat Sidley PARLIAMENT is an interesting place these days. When the Minister of Health, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, participated in the debate on the price of drugs on August 17, the House, it seems, was fully in support of her views. This included Dr DR Madide, the Inkatha Freedom Party’s spokesman on health. […]

Sibusiso Nxumalo MUZI SIKHAKHANE, newly elected president of the Wits SRC, has the daunting task of uniting a racially polarised student body. By his own admission, Wits students voted on racial lines last week — for the first time since black student involvement in the student governing body. But Sikhakhane believes the situation can be […]

Drew Forrest A DIRE warning that Cosatu faces “serious danger” if it fails to return to organisational basics is contained in the latest edition of a magazine pitched at Cosatu shop stewards. The Shopsteward warns that the gap between leadership and union grassroots has widened considerably and that shop stewards are “tired of feeling like […]

Sam Shilowa will no doubt keep his job as chief of Cosatu … but not everyone in Cosatu will applaud. Drew Forrest reports UNEASE over Sam Shilowa’s fitness for the post of Cosatu secretary-general continues to bubble to the surface in the federation as it prepares for its first post-election national congress next week. Misgivings […]