Corporate social investment has evolved over the years, although there is still much that can be done Jubie Matlou A great deal of resources continues to flow into communities and to individuals as a form of empowerment and support be it the imparting of skills, the provision of bursaries and amenities, or even donations. These […]

Mayor Giuliani shares a Yankee victory that leads on to Arizona Rob Steen The Big Apple just got bigger. Willed on by a nation as well as a city, and in a manner that bordered on the pre- ordained, the New York Yankees displayed consummate professionalism in brushing aside the Seattle Mariners, sweeping into what […]

Stefaans Brmmer ponders the mysteries of this sad and enigmatic land “Asia is a living body, and Afghanistan its heart. In the ruin of the heart lies the ruin of the body. So long as the heart is free, the body remains free. If not, it becomes a straw adrift in the wind.” Mohammed Iqbal […]

Jaspreet Kindra African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe is to step into the row between the party’s head of religious affairs, Cedric Mayson, and Anglican Church leaders over Mayson’s accusation that they are politicising the HIV/Aids issue. In a letter this week to the Anglican bishops, Mayson says he “regrets” that Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu […]

Niki Moore The women of the Sokhulu community on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast would harvest mussels by sneaking into the intertidal zone and indiscriminately scraping the rocks with a panga. Large mussels, small mussels, other rock-bound marine life all would be swept off and bagged in haste. All the time someone would keep an eye […]

Barry Streek Analysts are expecting lower economic growth projections and continued caution over public spending when Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel presents his medium-term budget policy statement next week. The statement, an assessment of government spending during the current financial year and a three-year spending projection, will be presented on Tuesday. Former senior Department of […]

Marianne Merten A senior Western Cape government official has been suspended after a forensic audit found sacked Cape metro mayor Peter Marais’s son is unlawfully occupying a low-cost government house in Cape Town. Grant Marais is one of 135 tenants unlawfully living in housing built for poor whites in Parow Park, northern Cape Town, in […]

Bongani Majola Three senior white officers have been suspended by Metrorail in Krugersdorp, pending investigations into allegations of racism and abuse. The latest incidents include a white senior protection officer who allegedly spat water on the face of a black female security officer, Siziwe Njwambe, telling her “it’s summertime”. The black officer reported the matter […]

Is the United States serious about bringing terrorists to justice? Assuming that the evidence against Osama bin Laden is credible, why not try him in a court that is composed of judges from all nations, including Islamic jurists? Bush appears to assume that the next step would be trial in a US court. In effect, […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni It’s an ordinary Monday morning at Kaditswene in the Northern Province, where villagers are wearing construction helmets and sun hats not to avoid the scorching African sun but to fight off the thick dust and rocks propelled by blasting operations at the nearby red-granite mines. At this village near Potgietersrus two […]