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.
Critical Consumer Pat Sidley SOUTH AFRICANS who buy compact discs know prices are much lower in the United States and hope against hope that they will drop in this country. But there is no price relief in sight. British consumers, in much the same boat as South Africans, have just had their hopes dashed by […]
Stolen cars may be driven into the Soweto police pound, but it is not always possible to drive them out, reports Sibusiso Nxumalo A MAIL & GUARDIAN investigation has uncovered a racket in which staff at the police-run Soweto Vehicle Storage Unit strip and sell off parts from stolen cars stored there after being recovered. […]
Joining the Boerevolk is easier than one would imagine and you don’t have to be white to qualify for membership, writes a Weekly Mail Reporter IT’S easy to become a member of the Boerevolk. All you need is R15 and a postage stamp. You don’t need to have an aunt who died in the Boer […]
Louise Flanagan and Chandre Gould SEVERAL askaris have died in mysterious circumstances — raising the possibility they are being murdered to stop further exposure of hit squad activities. Former Vlakplaas commander Colonel Eugene de Kock, currently facing murder and gun-running charges, is alleged to have killed askari Brian Ngqulunga, shot dead during the Harms Commission […]
Jacques Magliolo looks at the profile of a typical insider trader Meet Henry — well educated, well dressed and well-off. A highly respected member of the stockbroking fraternity and a well- known socialite, he knows everyone who is anyone. Henry drives an imported sports car, lives in a mansion in an exclusive Johannesburg suburb — […]
Sidwell Hartman has turned down five overseas offers this year — yet the role he most wants to sing here has been offered to a foreigner. Coenraad Visser talked to him between rehearsals for Pact’s Aida A MODEST person with strong Christian beliefs, Sidwell Hartman does not at first evoke the image of the warrior […]
Jan Taljaard IT was truly a gathering of the faithful. In contrast to the milling throngs of the past, just over 800 supporters turned up at the Pretoria City Hall this week to listen to the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging’s Eugene Terre’Blanche. In the past, the Pretoria City Hall had served the AWB well as a recruiting […]
The leader of the African Muslim Party has helped victims from Bangladesh to Bosnia. Now he is using his skills to aid Rwanda. Stefaans Brummer reports Imtiaz Sooliman, a doctor turned politician and aid broker, has a plan to aid Rwanda which could put to shame last month’s South African airlift to the refugee camps. […]