Stefaans Brummer WITWATERSRAND Attorney-General Klaus von Lieres und Wilkau says Defence Minister Joe Modise’s moratorium on prosecuting people who fail to respond to call-ups is a “puff in the wind”. Modise said in parliament members of the Citizen Force and commando units — all white, because they were fed by whites-only conscription until it was […]

Sibusiso Nxumalo WOMEN across the country marked Women’s Day by mourning the death of ANC MP Feroza Adam, credited with inspiring and uniting women across race and class divisions as a tireless worker for women’s rights. Adam (33) died on Monday night in Cape Town’s Groote Schuur Hospital after a car accident last Saturday. The […]

Weekly Mail Reporter AN astonishing range of decorating workshops — from designs for low-cost housing to investments in Oriental carpets — will be on offer at the first ever Decorex (SA) exhibition starting on Wednesday August 10 at Gallagher’s Estate in Midrand. Decorator Nicola Hadfield and the South African Guild of Interior Designers have arranged […]

Neil Johnson reflects on life as a professional in the English leagues CRICKET: Luke Alfred LAST summer a former Australian wicketkeeper named Rod Marsh provocatively called English bowlers pie-throwers. I was reminded of the phrase when I interviewed Natal’s Neil Johnson, currently playing professionally for Rochdale in the Central Lancashire League. Comparing the standard of […]

Saccawu, one of the country’s biggest unions, is a headache for Pick ‘n Pay — but it’s also a headache for Cosatu, writes Drew Forrest ‘WE have no problem with Jews as a religious group,” explained the union official on radio, in defence of strikers who had hurled anti-Semitic slogans at a Jewish old age […]

Chris Louw REGULAR visitors to Mozambique say they have become accustomed to bribery and corruption at police roadblocks and when stopped by traffic officers. Pieter van Wyk of Pretoria described this week how he was recently stopped five times while travelling the 240km of the Tete corridor from Malawi to Zimbabwe. At one point he […]

The Markets Jacques Magliolo Unnoticed and ominous, a new trend is emerging in the market as a consequence of prolonged strike action in South Africa. While investors and store owners alike are becoming immune to violence-related labour unrest — most do not expect the immediate effect on Pick ‘n Pay’s financial results to be severe […]

A South African ambassador has taken the UN to task over attacks on tourists in Mozambique, reports Chris Louw SOUTH AFRICA’S ambassador in Maputo, John Sunde, this week criticised the United Nations for failing to improve the security situation in Mozambique in the wake of the dramatic increase in attacks on South African tourists. Sunde […]

IN most countries, political parties tussle to become the government. In this country, members of all the major political parties are elbowing each other aside in the rush for the opposition benches. The National Party and the Inkatha Freedom Party, despite both being members of the government, also want to lead the opposition. The Democratic […]

Humphrey Tyler THERE has been a mad scramble by local artists to get a booking at the Hilton Drama Festival next month and many have been disappointed, but the final programme is a hugely promising combination of serious (but not solemn) drama with a leavening of full-on fun on the burgeoning Fringe, not to mention […]