Features

Pros & cons Boot camps for young criminals
Mike Earl-Taylor asks whether the US justice system's military-style correctional boot camps may not deter first-time young offenders in South Africa. THE criminological and sociological theory was simple. If military organisations can turn a ra...

New plans for maids, madams and money
By Mthobeli Mxotwa EAST LONDON -- The proposed institutionalised basic minimum wage for domestic workers has been hailed in some quarters, but reviled by some employers of domestic workers. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) sai...

What you should know
THE Unemployment Insurance Act and the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act do not apply to domestic workers. There is as yet no prescribed minimum wage for domestic workers. However there are certain legal guidelines on domes...

NGOs lobby for benefit rights
By Justine Gerardy EAST LONDON -- Domestic workers, who are estimated to work in over a million households in South Africa, have no benefit rights of any kind. The Black Sash's Pumla Mncayi said there were gaps in the Basic Conditions of Employm...

Testing behaviour
Drug abuse by teenagers is rife in East London. Are our schools doing enough to identify and rally around their troubled pupils? TANYA JONKER-BRYCE reports. KEVIN Jones* is 16 years old. Like many of his school friends, he dreams of becoming a pr...

Game farming important for economy, conservation
EAST LONDON -- Game farming has become one of the strongest economic growth areas in the Eastern Cape, and at the same time a major force in conserving the province's unique vegetation. A new study on environmental conservation shows game ranchi...

Umtiza shares available
By Sizwe Nono EAST LONDON -- The Umtiza Farmers' Corporation is becoming a public company part-owned by Eastern Cape emerging farmers, Umtiza general manager Doug du Preez said recently. The farmers will pay a once-off fee of R50 to become a sha...

Market prices
Prices for fair average quality produce marketed in East London. PRODUCTAVE.HIGHLOW VEGETABLES Butternuts1,141,400,90 Potatoes, class1 med0,971,500,70 class 2 med0,74 1,00,0,60 Beetroot2,232,501,80 Lettuce3,073,332,78 Cauliflower1,922,251,63 Car...

Public hearings on agriculture bills
UMTATA -- The public hearings of the provincial standing committee on Agriculture and Land Affairs got off to a slow start here yesterday with about 200 people attending. They deal with land use planning, livestock improvement, animal health, mea...

Farmers 'trapped by rising costs, falling incomes '
JOHANNESBURG -- The farming community is caught in a trap of rising costs and falling farm incomes, said the president of the Fertiliser Society of South Africa (FSSA), Rod Humphris, in his annual report at the 42nd annual congress of the society ...

Leaning Tower of Pisa cured
By Nicholas Rigillo IT has been bandaged, steadied, injected and crammed with tubes. Now, after years of therapy, Italy's most illustrious patient is finally cured. Tomorrow Michele Jamiolkowski, the engineer who spent more than a decade at its ...

STARSCOPE by William Smith
ARIES: Mar 21 - Apr 21: Do your homework on your own character and try to acquire extra polish if you deem it to be necessary. Image and ability are most important considerations; so enrol for individual training if you reckon it will improve your...

Wamkelekile
Tourists welcomed to townships Despite being stigmatised as notorious townships in South Africa because of their alarming crime statistics, Mdantsane and Duncan Village could soon be prime tourist destinations, creating jobs for locals and provid...