FRIDAY, 11.30AM DE BEERS and the National Union of Mineworkers have signed a historic two-year wage deal, the mining industry’s first, giving workers a 9,7% increase this year, and an inflation-linked rise next year. After earlier deadlock between the parties, the agreement was facilitated by Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration senior commissioner Attie van […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM GAYE DERBY-LEWIS, the wife of fomer Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis, has complained to the Truth and Reconciliation of “gross contempt of court” during her husband’s recent amnesty hearing. Derby-Lewis, whose amnesty hearing was postponed until next month, is serving a life sentence together with Polish immigrant Janusz Walus for the murder in […]
FRIDAY, 3.30PM NORTHERN Province director-general John Malatji rresigned on Friday morning following the release of the Semenya commission report that found the provincial government had squandered at least R10-million on the irregular purchase of office buildings. The Semenya commission was appointed by Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi last year to investigate claims of irregularities in government procurement […]
AS part of the Mail & Guardian’s continued efforts to provide our readers with the best newspaper reading in South Africa, from this week we add to and welcome back some of the top voices in journalism in the country. Robert Kirby joins the team with Loose Cannon, a humorous column itching to take on […]
intervention Gustav Thiel THE outgoing chief censor, Dr Braam Coetzee, believes censorship is about to end in South Africa. The new law enacted last year embodies the principles of democracy and will make the public the guardians of morality, he says. Turning his 17 years as a censor on its head, Coetzee now says he […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM SEVEN senior Johannesburg detectives, including the notorious former head of the Brixton Murder and Robbery squad, Superintendent Charlie Landman, on Friday quit the police to join private security firm Khulani Springbok Patrols. A KSP spokesman and police spokesman Inspector Mark Reynolds confirmed that Landman, three captains from his former unit and three inspectors […]
Andrew Worsdale SO what if you’re a concerned parent who goes out one night and leaves your eight- year-old plugged into cyberspace? Is the child going to be exposed to all the variegations of sins of the flesh and/or revolutionary subversion? If the child is naturally curious, all he has to do is call up […]
This weekend, ANC branches in Gauteng will start the crunch debate on who their new leader will be. By Monday, they should have a clear idea, Wally Mbhele reports WITH the outgoing Gauteng premier Tokyo Sexwale licking his political wounds inflicted on the eve of his resignation from the highest provincial office, two candidates are […]
Chris Opperman RICH VERSTER, the former Military Intelligence spy now being debriefed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was allegedly a crook who disguised gold and diamond scams as covert activities. Verster is awaiting trial in a British jail on charges of drug smuggling. Transvaal Deputy Attorney General and former prosecutor in the Eugene de […]
Tongaat-Hulett is the first company to make submissions to the truth commission, writes Enoch Mthembu T ONGAAT-HULETT, the KwaZulu-Natal sugar giant, has become the first company called to account to the Truth and Reconcilation Commission, after the discovery of an activist’s corpse on its property. The company has handed written submissions to the commission explaining […]