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/ 25 November 2005
Ideals have been betrayed Larger issues were at stake in the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) strike than salaries and service conditions. It exemplified the growing concern about the impact of neo-liberalism in institutions of higher learning, increased economic referencing in education and the demand that academics do more for less. It is unacceptable that staff […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Glaring holes in judgement There are glaring gaps in the ruling of the learned judge in the Jacob Zuma rape case: Malume is a brother to one’s sister. The relationship between malume and umshana (niece/nephew) is closer than fatherly — it is maternalistic. In Zulu culture, adults parent every child in the community. And someone […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Kirby’s nuclear ignorance Robert Kirby writes complete nonsense (”Alex in wonderland”, August 25) when he says Russia’s Chernobyl nuclear power station ”went out of control because of what Nersa [the National Electricity Regulator] recently diagnosed at Koeberg”. The primary reason for the accident at Chernobyl was a crazy reactor design that would never be allowed […]
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/ 25 November 2005
The Wail fills the passion gap Goodness gracious me! All these years I thought Steven Fried-person wrote the horse-racing column! Thank you, Madame Editor, for the honorary mention in your ”A 21st century M&G” piece celebrating/commemorating/salivating on 20 years of the newspaper. My Saturday afternoon slumber was pleasantly interrupted by an old friend, Aso Balan […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Back to the kitchen! The actions of a few rowdy women in the Jacob Zuma saga have done great harm to the dignity of South African women and deserve harsh condemnation. On Women’s Day last year at the Union Buildings, female Zuma supporters booed Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and bared their breasts in protest against […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Ego and pig-headedness South Africa’s anti-retroviral (ARV) medication versus nutrition debate is not unique in the world. But what is unique to this country is its scale and that the government is placed within the ”alternative” camp, with civil society, including the Treatment Action Campaign, the protagonist of mainstream science and medicine. This has led […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Basotho are gatvol The current Lesotho Congress of Democrats government has riled me, a proud Mosotho. In 2004 the government decided to increase the salaries and packages of MPs, ministers and permanent secretaries by a whopping 85%. Some are reported to have received more than a 90% increase. In one of the world’s poorest countries, […]
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/ 25 November 2005
A whole lot of bull I am struck by the moral dishonesty of those who attacked the SPCA’s response to the slaughtering ritual Tony Yengeni was responsible for (”The great bull debate”, January 26). If someone objects to ”cultural practices” like bride burning, dry sex or female genital excision, is she also guilty of ”selective […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Lob from cuckoo land And now we have a lob from the far right of fundamentalist cuckoo land — Philip Cole (Letters, October 6) telling us that if Fred marries Steve today then tomorrow Fred may marry Molly the Cow. And God knows if this sort of thing carries on, we could have Fred marrying […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Kebble’s M&G link In response to the article ”Kebble case under way when DA accepted cash”, (August 25). The Democratic Alliance did not have any reason to believe that Brett Kebble was under suspicion at the time that we received our last donation from him in February 2004. We have also never had any reason […]