New additions to the local insurance industry are a women-only policy and maintenance protection Heather Hogan Women (and men) wary of time-consuming, expensive and sometimes futile battles to get financial support after a divorce can now take out an insurance policy to protect them against the maintenance blues. However, people in customary marriages are excluded […]
Richard Tomlinson CROSSFIRE South Africa’s cities are notorious for the exclusion of a significant proportion of the population from economic opportunities and social services. This exclusion has, in part, to do with the apartheid form of our cities: low- density, high-income, well-serviced, formerly white suburbs close to work opportunities; and large, impoverished, sprawling, poorly serviced […]
Lack of international experience could thwart Siyabonga Nomvete’s plans to move to Sunderland Neal Collins in London Sunderland’s bid to sign South African striker Siyabonga Nomvete could be derailed by work permit problems. Manager Peter Reid has let it be known that he is “very interested” in the Bafana Bafana goalgetter – but fears the […]
Two top British poets are among those coming to Durban’s poetry festival Merle Colborne There was a time when poetry was thought of as something only people who spoke posh, wore tweed skirts or jackets with leather elbow patches and drank their tea from bone china cups could enjoy. Now aficionados include those who talk […]
Without funds from the provincial government, some farm schools in the region have been forced to close Lynda Gilfillan Schoombee Trust School is one of the luckier farm schools in the Eastern Cape. It’s still open. But throughout the province schools are closing because the provincial education department has paid neither boarding nor transport subsidies, […]
Khadija Magardie A DAUGHTER OF ISIS by Nawal El Saadawi (David Philip/Zed) Islamic feminism is a virtual candy jar of typologies, incorporating pragmatists, radicals, secular feminists and even “neo- Islamists”. With the backdrop of Islamic laws and traditions, the different camps have one common concern – the empowerment of women within a rethought Islam. What […]
Marianne Merten A debt-collecting company, International Debt Control (IDC), chaired by former minister of finance Barend Du Plessis, has been expelled from the industry control body after being found guilty of unconscionable behaviour, acting dishonestly and failing to account for collected money. It is the second time IDC has been censured by the Association of […]
Donna Block President Robert Mugabe’s government is now targeting top Zimbabwean businesspeople who are independent of the ruling Zanu-PF party as land invasions and violence against farmers and opposition supporters continue. The head of Zimbabwe’s third-largest company, Strive Masiyiwa, is now pondering his future surrounded by bodyguards in London after being warned by sympathetic security […]
Glenda Daniels BODY LANGUAGE I’m not a fan of coats of arms because to me they’re symbols of pride – for men at war. But I was curious about the new coat of arms, which took a long time coming. The motto in Khoisan, !KE E: /XARRA //KE – loosely translated to mean Unity in […]
Frank Keating Power inside the International Cricket Council (ICC) may have been rudely wrested from the fuddy dominion’s base at Lord’s, but this week it at least managed a traditional British answer to a thorny problem – set up a committee to report back in the fullness of time. Tell you what, no betting man […]