The prospect of state schools closing their doors to the nation’s children next week is undoubtedly the biggest crisis this country has faced in four years of democratic government. The signs are everywhere that education has come off the rails; should there be a strike now, this schooling year might just as well be written […]
theNet Mukoni T Ratshitanga A Singapore-based agency which sells customers “camouflaged” bank accounts, driver’s licences and college degrees is also selling “Southern African passports and identity documents” on the Internet. The agency, Expat World Special Services, offers in the June edition of its monthly newsletter “an official Southern African Government Immigration Program” which gives permanent […]
A song in honour of Bafana Bafana has sent Ronnie Kasrils’s son on the road to ragga success, writes Charl Blignaut Robert McBride may still be languishing in a Maputo prison, but his partner in promoting rap music, the Admiral, is about to release the first white ragga rap album on to the South African […]
Poverty, abuse, addiction and fear drive many women to sex work, writes Swapna Prabhakaran Durban in autumn is viciously deceptive. The sun still shines as if it were summer, but the wind comes in off the ocean, picks up grit and sand, and stings like ice-cold splinters wherever it touches flesh. On Durban’s beachfront there […]
Andy Duffy The Ministry of Education wants to spend R200-million this year to boost leadership skills in the provinces – a plan that will also give national officials far greater control over the often chaotic management of provincial education. The plans include setting up a rapid response unit to defuse provincial crises in areas such […]
As Wall Street pats itself on the back, trouble lurks behind the boom, warn Joel Kotkin and David Friedman With the Asian dragons vanquished, Wall Street soaring to new heights and United States unemployment rates at modern lows, American elites are indulging in an orgy of self- congratulation unmatched since the Roaring Twenties. “France had […]
lift the trophy Andrew Muchineripi World Cup Sick and tired of reading about the brilliant Brazilians? So am I. There are 31 other teams you know, including our beloved Bafana Bafana. It begins next Wednesday evening in Paris when Ronaldo and his mates meet Scotland the Brave and continues until the final on July 12. […]
sufferers Michael Nurok Forget the apple – if new research proves correct, it will be a pilchard a day that keeps the doctor away. Scientists have been looking at the therapeutic properties of omega-three fatty acids, found in fish oil, in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. South Africa’s richest natural source of the substance is […]
Phillip Kakaza It’s hard to classify Tony Cox’s music. With his classical guitar background he encompasses a well- textured resonance of blues, rock, jazz and African styles. During his recent Deep Sea Guitar solo show at Jargonelle’s he sailed into high and beautiful notes, revisiting some of his old works and playing some of the […]
THURSDAY, 6.00PM: POST, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Minister Jay Naidoo released his long-awaited White Paper on Broadcasting Policy on Thursday, outlining a vision to turn South Africa into a global multimedia hub. The 46-page White Paper proposes that the the country’s signal distribution network should be opened to competition by 2000. Concluding that the digital route […]