Census 2001’s ultimate success depends on what the government does with the results, writes Evidence wa ka Ngobeni On Wednesday September 10, 85 000 workers from Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) will fan out across the country for the start of Census 2001, with only three weeks to record the details of more than 10-million […]
Jaspreet Kindra The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) leadership is working to forge a common front with South Africa’s church leaders to fight the government over its stance on HIV/Aids. Of particular concern to labour is the government’s refusal to acknowledge the Medical Research Council (MRC)finding that Aids is the country’s biggest killer. […]
Paul Rees When the Barbarians take on Australia in Cardiff at the end of next month, it will be the last time the invitation club meets a touring side unless it agrees to donate a significant percentage of the profits to developing nations. For the past 54 years, the Barbarians have traditionally brought down the […]
SOCCER Neal Collins These are tough times for Bafana Bafana’s big defender Pierre Issa. South Africa’s former Marseille player, who went on loan to Chelsea and made no impact last season, has now linked up with Gianluca Vialli’s Watford. But if he expected life to be easier in the second level of English football, he […]
Duncan Mackay After years of steady improvement, women’s distance running has finally come of age. When Japan’s Naoko Takahashi set the world marathon record of 2hr 19min 46sec in Berlin on Sunday she achieved a landmark that had long been the holy grail for every female runner. A sub-2hr 20min time had been a target […]
The ruling elite may have missed out on lessons in reasoning NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe It is difficult to look back at my schooling with fond memories. How could I, when the philosophical grounding of education was to ensure that schools were conducted in such a way that “the natives will be taught from […]
Khadija Magardie South Africa’s controversial draft anti-terror legislation will remain on the back-burner at least until the middle of next year In the wake of the September 11 terror attacks on the United States, speculation has mounted that the government is under pressure to show its commitment to ending global terrorism by pushing through draft […]
Frank Keating on the great Basil D’Oliveira, who celebrated his 70th birthday this week. Or did he? The one-time enemy of the state has a few times been welcomed back to the new South Africa as prophet and treasure. “Oh sure, they’ve even given me full red-carpet treatment in the Orange Free State,” says Basil […]
So the “small-minded, vacuum-brained anti-American commentators” have been identified by your reader John Valentine as taking up position in your paper (September 21). One of those “morons” happens to be Noam Chomsky, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1972 to 1992 he was cited 7449 times in the Social Science Citation Index. His […]
Barry Streek In a new privatisation move, the government has released draft legislation enabling private companies and equity partners to become involved in South Africa’s strategic petroleum pipelines. The draft Petroleum Pipelines Bill, published in the Government Gazette, provides for the appointment of a Petroleum Pipeline Regulator to regulate the operation of the petrol pipeline […]