Paul Stober All 12 of South Africa’s officially recognised intelligence networks will be incorporated into the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), under three Bills regulating the new intelligence service. Intelligence sources this week indicated the police’s Crime Intelligence Service (CIS), the Military Intelligence departments of South Africa and the former independent states, the ANC’s Department of […]
Chris Louw THE National Party is struggling to establish itself in the opposition role it seeks, judging by this week’s performance in parliament. Party leader and Deputy President FW de Klerk came back from his overseas holiday this week tanned, relaxed and — according to his lieutenants — “fighting-fit”. He was also determined to establish […]
The JSE is set to make its contribution to the RDP by introducing a new Main Board market, writes Jacques Magliolo Finally, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange is to show that it has the courage to launch itself into a world of black business and empowerment. For the JSE this was a previously unthinkable notion, but […]
Bulelwa Payi THE Grahamstown police may be seen as “guardian angels” by black school students soon, if an “adoption” programme succeeds. The local police have come up with an innovative idea to win the trust of black students — they are encouraging them to “adopt-a-cop”. The project should be launched later this month. Police spokesman […]
RUGBY: Barney Spender WIN or lose on Saturday, this sixth tour of New Zealand by the Springboks will probably be judged a failure by the vast majority of South Africans. After all, the test series was lost, the Springbok head fell to Otago in rainy Dunedin and there was the ignominy of having prop Johan […]
Unions and black business are being wooed by casino king Sol Kerzner with an offer of free shares in a gambling venture, reports Jenny Cargill TRADE union federation Cosatu is part of a consortium negotiating with gambling magnate Sol Kerzner to bid for the lion’s share of gambling rights in the new South Africa. And […]
David Frost can live up to his name and beat the debilitating heat at next week’s US PGA in Oklahoma GOLF: Jon Swift THIS has, by anyone’s yardstick, been a bumper year for southern African golf. Ernie Els the US Open champion, Simon Hobday, winner of the veteran’s equivalent and Nick Price a popular winner […]
NATIVE TONGUE Bafana Khumalo ‘OH, Lisa! What you gon’ an’ done now, baby? What your mama gon’ and made you do?” I was sitting at a piazza at the Oriental Plaza, throwing bits of bread at the doves and shooting the breeze with my good friend, Ali. “Lisa Marie, mah baby, why now?” he cried, […]
Ravi Naidoo reports on the consequences of the increasing incidence of labour brokers LABOUR broking — described recently as a “den of unmitigated crooks” by the International Labour Organisation — is becoming a headache for trade unions and permanent workers. And, as it exists now, labour broking is potentially harmful to many stakeholders in the […]
Bafana Khumalo takes a look at an ambitious new educational series aimed at addressing health problems A WOMAN rushes into a clinic, tears rolling down her face as she begs a doctor to save her dying baby; they gallantly do their best but, alas, they lose the child. St Elsewhere? No, Soul City, a new […]