Paul Erasmus describes his initiation into ‘dirty=20 tricks’ against the left. This is the first of a=20 series of extracts from his manuscript Not long after I joined the security police (in January=20 1977), I was told by my colleagues and superiors,=20 including section head Major JHL Jordaan and=20 lieutenants At Kellerman (who later became […]

Jacques Magliolo reports on the CBD’s captive market, the stockbroking fraternity STOCKBROKERS are unlikely to abandon the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) building in a mass exodus once automated trading is implemented. This is the feeling of a number of stockbrokers, who were responding to media speculation that once an automated trading system (ATS) has been […]

Stefaans Brummer PAUL Erasmus, former security policeman who admitted in=20 the Mail & Guardian his role in a 1989 death attempt on=20 cleric Frank Chikane, this week made peace with the=20 former general secretary of the South African Council=20 of Churches (SACC). The approach by Erasmus followed a request by Chikane – – who has […]

Stefaans BrUmmer DEPUTY President FW de Klerk this week distanced=20 himself from post-1990 security force “dirty tricks”=20 operations, while the ANC parliamentary study group on=20 safety and security said denials were to be expected. The tete-a-tete followed revelations in last week’s=20 Mail & Guardian by former police operative Paul Erasmus=20 of his involvement in the […]

The right of a child to refuse religious instruction=20 enshrined in the new Gauteng Education Bill has=20 caused an outcry, reports Gavin du Venage The Gauteng Education Bill has come under attack from=20 Jewish, Muslim and Christian schools who fear it will=20 outlaw their right to provide religious teaching. Muslim schools have also objected to […]

South African broadcasters have been caught unawares by=20 Rupert Murdoch’s purchase of southern hemisphere rugby=20 broadcasting rights, reports Justin Pearce Rupert Murdoch’s purchase of the television rights to=20 southern hemisphere rugby has caught the South African=20 broadcasting world unawares, with the Independent=20 Broadcasting Authority and the SABC still searching for=20 an effective response to a […]

The visit of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams to South=20 Africa highlighted both the similarities and=20 differences between the South African and Irish peace=20 processes, writes David Beresford The departure of Gerry Adams from South Africa last=20 week is likely to have been met with a sense of relief=20 in Stormont and Whitehall. The memory […]

Cinema: Justin Pearce Batman Forever — the third film in the sequence that began with Tim Burton’s Batman — is a comic book of a movie. This fact would not need pointing out, but for the fact that the first two in the sequence weren’t comic book movies. They were graphic novel movies. When Burton, […]

Reg Rumney reports on the labour market gospel according to the World Bank A World Bank report on labour warns against the the kind of amendments the union negotiators have proposed on compulsory centralised bargaining in the draft Labour Bill. Labour is the theme of the 1995 World Development Report: Workers in an Integrating World […]