Weekly Mail Reporter OWNERS of guns of all kinds — licensed or not, toys or real — will give up their weapons at mosques, churches and synagogues countrywide later this year if the Gun Free South Africa Campaign gets its way. Methodist Bishop Peter Storey, chairman of the campaign, said this week it was aiming […]
Members of a VIP police unit are the main suspects in a wave of sabotage at the provincial government offices in Johanesburg, reports Eddie Koch A BUG found in the office of Mary Metcalfe, education minister for the PWV region, has fuelled fears that conservative civil servants and sections of the police are intent on […]
Is regional public broadcasting the responsibility of the SABC or of the provinces? The first salvos have been fired in a heated dispute between the premiers and central government, writes Mark Gevisser A RAGING controversy over North-West premier Popo Molefe’s decision to appoint one of his provincial government’s advisers as director general of the vast […]
Pact has boycotted the first major initiative by PWV Arts and Culture Minister Peter Skosana to formulate arts funding policy, writes Mark Gevisser ‘IT was a public act of suicide,” said Johannesburg city councillor Cecil Bass of the last-minute decision, by the Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal, to boycott a conference on public funding […]
Unless more money is forthcoming from government, the National Peace Secretariat is unlikely to survive, writes Stefaans Brummer THE National Peace Secretariat and its regional and local peace committees, widely credited with dampening political violence countrywide, are fighting for their survival with a budgetary shortfall of at least R35-million. The financial woes of the peace […]
Moveable Feast Michele Witthaus BEHIND the dusty, unimposing exterior of 25 Alexander Street, Ferreirastown, are a myriad curious objects on shelves and in glass cabinets. Gaudily painted statuettes share space with miniature Oriental houses, white rabbit sweets, ginseng remedies and “stop smoking tea”. A sign on the wall informs one that “The Chon Hing Restaurant […]
Research reveals that gold miners are exposed to dangerous levels of radioactive gases, reports Eddie Koch WORKERS in South Africa’s gold mines now have to deal with a new set of underground demons: radon and her “daughters”. New research shows more than 10 000 miners are exposed to doses of subterranean radioactive gases that exceed […]
A report card on the new government. By Anton Harber.
Peter and Gary Kirsten have already made their mark in the current test series … but they’re amazed they’re even there CRICKET: Paul Martin ON the Knysna lagoon a year-or-so ago, a rubber dinghy floated idly along. “We had a few Castles in the boat, and we didn’t even notice the fishes on the hook,” […]
Gone are the rough, raw emotions. But don’t blame Koos Kombuis; it’s the production that’s the problem, writes Fred de Vries IT’S confession time. I love the music of Koos Kombuis. But his first proper album since 1989s Niemandsland is a bitter disappointment. Or perhaps one should say: it could have been so much better […]