Gaye Davis A BID to democratise the selection of a new rector for the University of the Western Cape appears to have backfired. While a decision is expected next week, the process has sharply divided the campus community. UWC’s founding statute was specially amended to throw open the selection process to include workers, students, academics […]
Bulelwa Payi in Grahamstown IT’S back to square one for Rhodes University in its search for a vice-chancellor. When the university council met on Thursday, it was to be asked to reconstitute the selection process for the vice- chancellor, said a source who asked not to be named. A senate meeting held on Wednesday “unanimously” […]
It’s been a long season for South Africa’s cricketers and in their final match they have a tough task against New Zealand CRICKET: Krish Mi’rams SOUTH AFRICA’s final international appointment of the 1994/95 season will be, perhaps, their most difficult assignment. On the face of it New Zealand would not seem to pose too many […]
Sugar cane fields are at the centre of a conflict involving a Natal community which says it has been left out of the land-restitution process. Weekly Mail THE electricity poles disappear on the road to Ezimwini just before the tarred road turns to dust, but sugar cane cloaks the surrounding hills almost to the first […]
The hiring of the chairman’s daughter as a PR for a JCI wine estate has caused mutterings in the firm. Reg Rumney reports The appointment of the daughter of the chairman of the soon-to-be-unbundled Johannesburg Consolidated Investments as a public relations officer for a subsidiary company raises prima facie questions of Frances Retief, daughter of […]
Steuart Wright in East London FORESTRY officials are racing against the clock to find a mate for the sole surviving elephant of the world- famous herd which roamed the Knysna forest at the turn of the century. Trouble is, they’re not sure of the sex of the Three young Kruger National Park cows were relocated […]
SOCCER: Clinton Asary WITH educational facilities around the country in the news as they fight for transformation, Wits University, at the forefront of the struggle, will be pleased to know that it’s soccer side has completed the process with unqualified success. On Saturday the “new” Wits face their first real challenge when they meet Kaizer […]
Eastern Cape Premier Raymond Mhlaba sent an uncompromising signal to civil servants throughout the country last weekend, reports Steuart Wright THE quelling of a police strike in Transkei at the weekend is the first decisive step the government has taken to bring the troubled former homeland to heel. The siege of Umtata by about 200 […]
Dr Olive Shisana, special adviser to the minister of health, discusses the reasons behind the parlous state of health services — and the way forward THE health status of the majority of South Africans remains poor, and the distribution of death and disability reflects the inequities of the past. In 1992, the number of children […]
Tales of incompetence emerged during the trial of the 26 rightwingers who allegedly went on a bombing spree on the eve of the April elections, reports Gavin du THE rightwing bombing campaign on the eve of South Africa’s first non-racial election, in which at least 20 people were killed, proved to be as vicious as […]