Vuyo Mvoko The Ministry of Education says it wants to avoid a collision with the Witwatersrand University Council for now, but threatened yesterday if the council did not heed proposals it had made on Wednesday, it would “act”. “It is not something we want to talk about now … but we have a responsibility to […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift IT is to the credit of the new-style South African Rugby Football Union that the process of changing the top playing management has been a fairly smooth affair. And while there has been some chopping and changing, this has been without the blood-letting which has typified such changes both historically and in […]

Vuyo Mvoko Tension between labour and the government broke into the open this week, culminating in a wave of wildcat strikes that hit three parastatals up for privatisation — Autonet, South African Airways, and Telkom. The South African Railways and Harbour Workers’ Union (Sarhwu), which organised the nationwide strikes on Wednesday, warned: “If they (the […]

Exiled movements are setting up in South Africa, reports Justin Pearce Willie Nwiido’s family thought he had died on the gallows along with Ken Saro-Wiwa — until they got word he was in South Africa. Wanted in Nigeria for his political activities, the 30- year-old Ogoni doctor went into hiding, only to re-emerge in Johannesburg, […]

Orlando Pirates face a hostile reception and an uphill battle against Asec Mimosa in Soccer: Lungile Madywabe ‘THERE will be hell in Ivory Coast,” said Asec Mimosa coach Zare Mamadou after his team drew 2-2 with Orlando Pirates in the first leg of the Champions Cup at the FNB stadium two weeks ago. With these […]

South Africa has seen foreign investment increase for the first time in a decade, but is this enough to sustain our emerging economy, asks Simon Segal Perhaps the greatest and most visible achievement of the government of national unity is the dramatic reversal in capital flows to and from the country. The Reserve Bank’s latest […]

The controversial industrial development of Saldanha Bay, near the west coast wetlands, is more about politics than about the environmental impact of a steel mill, writes Neville Sweijd THE decision of Lampie Fick, Western Cape MEC for Environment and Tourism, to rezone a farm on the Saldanha Bay coast from agricultural to industrial land has […]

Zola Skweyiya, Minister for Public Services and Administration, in The Mark Gevisser Profile To drive into Transvaal House, where the behemoth Public Services Commission looms over its kingdom of Pretoria, you need to ascend a ramp and go through a security check next to a trash-filled dumpster. The pungent concoction of koptoe security guard and […]

The Mail & Guardian, like other local newspapers, cannot consider itself to be exempt from public analysis, but it is the critical self-consciousness of the new South African state, writes Colin Paisley BRUCE COHEN certainly knows a lot about the problem of media control in this country. His article (Mail & Guardian, December 1 to […]

Sharon Hammond and Hazel Friedman Four years after a high concentration of arsenic was first found in drinking water at Anglovaal’s New Consort gold mine in Barberton, Mpumalanga, the poison is alleged to have claimed its first victim. An investigation into the mine started recently after 2 000 residents were poisoned by drinking water in […]