A new plan has been designed to deal with the problems that have rendered South Africa’s taxi industry uncontrollable. Scotch Tagwireyi reports As taxi violence and road deaths reach epidemic proportions, the government is preparing sweeping plans to revamp South Africa’s deadliest industry. The plan includes taking the country’s present fleet of 120 000 minibus […]

John Matshikiza CROSSFIRE The passion for revising our history in line with what we still tiresomely call our “new dispensation” is getting out of hand. It’s one thing to say that history must be rewritten to show what really happened in the course of our various national sagas. It’s quite another thing to try to […]

Ivor Powell Obituary It could hardly have come as a surprise to many when former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere died in St Thomas’ hospital in London on Thursday, but many, especially Pan Africanists, were saddened by his nnnpassing. Nyerere, aged 77, finally breathed his last in the middle of Thursday morning after being described as […]

An Mpumalanga farm worker gave his heart to the land -and then his eyes, reportsEAaron Nicodemus A n Mpumalanga farm worker has filed a R1,47-million suit against three white farmers for a tear gas attack three years ago that has left him permanently blind. The suit, filed in the Pretoria High Court, claims for past […]

The Centre for Development Enterprise is committed to a strong role for the state in creating the environment for growth and development, says Ann Bernstein In his attack on the Centre for Development Enterprise (CDE) publication Policy Making in a New Democracy: South Africa’s Challenges for the 21st Century, Jeremy Cronin misrepresents the CDE’s conclusions […]

alien’ Marianne Merten The Aliens Control Act was used to arrest international fugitive and American embassy bombings suspect Khalfan Khamis Mohamed and deport him to the United States. Mohamed applied for permission to stay in South Africa pending an application for political asylum under the false name of Zahran Nassor Maulid. New York-based FBI representative […]

Fiona Macleod A campaign similar to the one which saved the Brenton Blue butterfly from extinction is being mounted to protect a rare butterfly species in Gauteng’s premier nature reserve complex. The Heidelberg Copper, so named because of the golden metallic sheen of its wings and its discovery at Heidelberg in 1959, is threatened by […]

Hilary Fine Lifestyle After life winds you up, you need to wind down. Stress can kill you, and to stay healthy you must find ways to de-stress. You are in need of serious self-help! Somewhere between the frenetic rat race of nine-to-five living and the solitary peace of a hermit, there is an equilibrium and […]

Khadija Magardie The South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF) skewed policy on HIV/Aids has once again come under the spotlight, after an HIV-positive soldier in Durban sought legal assistance after threats to discontinue his anti-retroviral therapy. Following a letter from the soldier’s lawyer, the SANDF backed down, stating that it would continue treating patients already […]

TANZANIA’S former president Julius Nyerere will be buried in his home country on October 23, parliamentary speaker Pius Msekwa announced on Friday. Nyerere, widely revered both at home and abroad, died Thursday morning in a London hospital at the age of 77. It was not yet clear exactly where in Tanzania Nyerere will be buried. […]