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Ann Eveleth Land reform has quietly undergone a major policy shift as the government has entered the land market in a bid to reshape the way land reform works. Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Derek Hanekom told the Mail & Guardian in an interview this week that the government had already begun purchasing farms […]
Are Africanism and nation-building mutually exclusive, or can Mbeki harness them in a team, asks Stanley Uys? While President Nelson Mandela has concerned himself with ceremonial matters, winning foreign friends and influencing people, Deputy President Thabo Mbeki has been running South Africa: chairing the Cabinet, managing day-to-day affairs, shaping policies, and moving on to the […]
Mathews Phosa’s political career may be at an end, but he won’t go down without a fight. Wally Mbhele and Makhosini Nkosi report As the African National Congress late this week announced its far-reaching findings on the political divisions behind the collapse of provincial structures in Mpumalanga, outgoing Premier Mathews Phosa came out blazing and […]
Andy Capostagno Rugby Three rounds to go and the Super 12 semi- finalists remain as elusive as a Waisale Serevi side-step. There are those who will argue that the Highlanders and the Stormers are certainties for the last four, but that’s all it is; an argument. The remaining fixtures for all the contenders are full […]
Despite many obstacles, there are great opportunities for black economic empowerment in the ITand telecommunications sector, reports Donna Block The future of black economic empowerment in South Africa is wired. Not only do the information, communication and technology sectors offer opportunities for wealth creation in the form of apparently gravity- defying shares, but these industries […]
THE South African Rugby Football Union is negotiating with Springbok coach Nick Mallett to extend his contract when it expires after the Rugby World Cup. Mallett, the most successful South African national coach ever, who took the Boks to 17 consecutive wins, will try to defend the championship in Wales in October and November. Sarfu […]
Until recently, the common fantasy of what sex would be like in the future borrowed from the spoof sci-fi movies of the 1960s. It would be solitary, robotic, it would probably involve a booth – Woody Allen’s orgasmatron springs to mind. These days, now we are closer to the future, technology’s impact on sex conjures […]
THURSDAY, 11.45AM: ANDRE SNYMAN will return to the Northern Bulls squad for Saturday’s Super-12 encounter with the Coastal Sharks at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. Snyman missed the Bulls’ last match, against Queensland Reds, due to the death of his father. He returns to the team at centre in place of Conrad Breytenbach. The other change […]
Friday night :Andrew Kay My Friday night was so good it actually started the night before. Coming at the tail end of a cathartic and sleep-deprived three- day bender, my Friday night was perhaps a little tame in comparison with the previous two nights. If this column had been titled Wednesday to Friday night, you […]
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration is functioning very well, writes Luvuyo Kakaza It’s Friday morning and the modest headquarters of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) in downtown Johannesburg are buzzing with activity. It is in this commission’s noisy corridors that reluctant management teams and angry workers start to lobby before […]
Howard Barrell:OVER A BARREL By the time you make your squiggles on a ballot paper on June 2, you will have read all the parties’ manifestos, analysed the outcomes they propose and the plausibility of the methods they suggest, sifted their merits out further in intelligent debate, cogitated and reflected still further, and then, with […]
Shaun Harris Neil Thomas, a youngish manager with a large food company in Durban, survived last year’s crack in the stock market fairly well. His collection of unit trust investments actually gained a few percentage points growth over the calendar year – not bad seen against the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) overall decline. Now Thomas […]
Marianne Merten General Constand Viljoen hit the campaign trail in the Western Cape this week without bodyguards, motor cavalcades, delays or the usual politician’s razzmatazz. Asked about his punctuality, so unlike many other politicians, he confessed jokingly: “I’m no politician.” Although there were no babies to be hugged or toddlers to be kissed, he smiled […]
abusive police Ted Leggett There has been much speculation about why South African Police Service (SAPS) officers would abuse shackled and wounded citizens in front of BBC cameras, in footage they must have known would be broadcast all over the world. But criminal investigators often come across similar cases, where the perpetrators apparently go out […]
KAIZER Chiefs’ midfielder Lifa Gqosha is recovering in Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital after police shot him on Tuesday night while he was allegedly trying to flee. Gqosha had been arrested for possesion of a suspected stolen vehicle and assaulting a police officer. The player’s family plan to lay charges against the police for assault. Gqosha’s […]
If reverb makes it hard for you to figure out what the words to Heartbreak Hotel are, help is just a click away. All the words to Elvis’s songs are available at , which includes a photo gallery of The King, from school photographs to the lanky youth of early publicity shots to the bloated […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM: MOROKA Swallows coach Walter Rautmann on Wednesday joined a growing list of people claiming Birds players have been accepting bribes to throw certain matches, and which may have resulted in Swallows losing a crucial league match. Rautmann said there could be substance to claims that former Swallows directors bribed key players to deliberately […]
Andrew Muchineripi in Copenhagen Top-class international football is chess on grass, a battle of brains as much as brawn with a credo that stresses the importance of making no mistakes while forcing your opponent into them. South Africa set out this week to end a 13- match winless streak outside Africa that has seen some […]
BRITISH national Ian Karl Lowe was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Moroccan court on Tuesday after nearly four tons of cannabis resin were found aboard a truck he was driving, judicial officials said. The 3910kg load of chira, worth an estimated $50-million, was found hidden under a cargo of clothes destined for […]
WATER Affairs Minister Kader Asmal will on Tuesday open a R220-million rural water and sanitation project for the Northern Province. The launch follows trade and development agreements signed on April 6 by European Union ambassador Michael Laidler and Deputy Finance Minister Gill Marcus. The project will concentrate on the southern, western, central and Lowveld districts […]
CABINET on Wednesday announced that June 2, the day when the country goes to the polls for its second democratic elections, will be a public holiday. The cabinet also announced that the new Parliament will convene on June 14 to elect the country’s new president and the National Assembly’s presiding officers. The country’s nine provincial […]
ACCORDING to delegates to the International Freedom of Expression Exchange conference in Cape Town, a certain Justice Mahapela Lehohla of Lesotho is running a personal vendetta against the press. Lehohla evicts from his court all journalists he considers to be inappropriately dressed, despite the fact that no other judges take umbrage to the same garments. […]
RESCUERS may be close to reaching missing miners Lawrence Molise Tsolo and John Befile Delekile as the search was narrowed to an area of about 300 square metres on Wednesday night. Anglogold spokesman Andries Van Zyl said rescue teams have reached the stopes where the missing men were working when the earthquake, measuring 4,6 on […]
A ONE-ARMED man robbed two women near the Gracelands casino at Secunda of R45 000 on Wednesday. Police spokeswoman Inspector Sibongile Nkosi said on Thursday that the women were taking the money to First National Bank, about 500m from the Foschini branch where they worked, when the one-armed man held them up with a gun.
EVANS MODISE, a member of the police VIP protection unit and a bodyguard to Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder, in the Mamelodi Magistrate’s Court. Modise is alleged to have beaten to death a neighbour, Hluphekile Baloyi, on New Year’s Eve, by beating his head against the road. […]
UNDERSTAFFED Northern Province schools are set to get a boost on Thursday when roughly 100 United States Peace Corps volunteers arrive to help out for three years. Education Department spokesman Bernard Matsane said on Wednesday the volunteers will be welcomed at Magoebaskloof, where they would make public pledges of service to the province. “The volunteers […]
WITH the Springboks facing a captaincy crisis, why not bring back inspirational flank Ruben Kruger, who led the Northern Bulls in their best-yet Super 12 outing on Saturday, to skipper the national side? Springbok captain Gary Teichmann, vice-captain Joost van der Westhuizen and the man tipped to usurp Teichmann, Bobby Skinstad, are all sidelined with […]
TRADE and Industry Department chief director of business regulation and consumer services Alistair Ruiters has been appointed a commissioner on the Competition Commission, Cabinet announced on Wednesday. The five-year appointment will see the Commission investigate corporate behaviour according to often controversial guidelines outlined in the Competition Act. Ruiters will be leaving the DTI, having been […]
REPORTS from Angola continue to claim that Namibian and Zimbabwean troops are aiding the Angolan army, in a major offensive aimed at dislodging Unita rebels from positions along the country’s northern border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Namibia has vociferously denied that any Namibian troops are taking part in a joint offensive in Angola. […]
CALM returned to the capital of the Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean on Thursday after three days of violent protests, residents said. For three days, gangs of youths on the main island of Grand Comore attacked the homes and cars of residents originally from the small island of Anjouan, which declared its independence from […]
BUREAUCRATIC bungling and deliberate political interference by the Northern Province cabinet has delayed 15 major corruption investigations by two years, the New National Party (NNP) said on Wednesday. NNP provincial leader, Tjol Lategan, also said in a statement on Wednesday that the province has yet to proclaim a single investigation request by Judge Willem Heath’s […]