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 […]
The plight of two threatened species — the jackass penguin and classical ballet — was highlighted at the launch of a new Pact production. Stanley Peskin reports WHEN Nedbank, which is celebrating its fifth year of involvement with The Green Trust, undertook the part sponsorship of Pact Ballet’s presentation of David Bintley’s Still Life at […]
Life for Cuba’s leading rapper isn’t easy, what with daily power cuts, food shortages — and a conservative bureaucracy which sanctions only salsa and other ‘traditional’ forms of music. Tony Karon spoke to Edesio Alejandros THE sun has gone and so has the electricity, and there is little else to do in the balmy darkness […]
Performances by Malian musician Salif Keita and Dutch theatre company Dogtroep are among the trump cards of this year’s Arts Alive festival in Johannesburg, writes Bafana Khumalo HOT on the heels of the Standard Bank National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, Arts Alive — Johannesburg’s answer to cultural relevance — has announced its line-up for this […]
Weekly Mail Reporter THE Market Theatre Company’s production of Scenes from an Execution won seven of the FNB Vita PWV theatre awards last week. The play was named best production of the year. Also honoured were its director, Clare Stopford; Dawid Minnaar and Camilla Waldman, who took the awards for best performance by supporting actors; […]
Sibusiso Nxumalo A SOUTH African National Defence Force soldier has accused former members of ANC security department Mbokodo — now senior officers in the new defence force — of victimising him for testifying about abuses in ANC detention camps. In a letter in the possession of the Mail & Guardian, Olefile Mngqibisa describes harassment by […]
Weekly Mail Reporter A SINGLE death last week represents the lowest death toll from “political violence” recorded by the Human Rights Committee in the PWV since February last year. The HRC said that for the week ending last Tuesday it had recorded one death and one injury in the PWV: the death of a white […]
Workers didn’t win many concessions in the Pick ‘n Pay strike but there is hope for better relations with management, writes Drew Forrest PICK ‘n Pay workers have lost their bitter three-week wage strike — but the settlement package holds out the prospect of reconstruction of union-management relations at the retail giant. And Labour Minister […]
Weekly Mail Television’s award-winning series, Ordinary People, is back on TV-1 on Thursday night. The series, which looks at topical issues and events through the eyes of a range of ordinary people, swept both major documentary television awards last year. It starts on Thursday August 11 at 10.15pm on TV-1.