Editorial

EDITORIAL OPINION Jobs are the challenge
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki's speeches show he is not afraid to challenge big problems and wrestle with them on public platforms. Whether he wins these battles is not always clear. In his keynote address to the ANC's national conference in Stellenbosch...

The Chiel
Navajo heroes IT could have been just one of those films, a dramatised vehicle for Nicholas Cage to shoot off a lot of bullets, dodge many himself, and be a sort of tortured hero. But just after seeing The Windtalkers, a young woman turned up in ...

Liberal is not a dirty word
YOUR leader of December 17 refers to the DA's "tired platitudes of liberalism", reflected, perhaps, in the sort of policies embraced by your Page 3 headline, "No deviating from Gear, privatisation --Mbeki". My dictionary (Collins 1982) defines li...

World-class what?
I LIVED in East London during the early 1970s and I arrived back recently to visit a relative, who took us on a drive to see what changes had taken place over the years. Frankly, I am appalled how your city has deteriorated in a period of some 30...

Mayor should take a walk in our area
MAYOR Maclean's remarks, "I am a proud citizen of Buffalo City, are you proud?" (DD, December 6) refers. Well Mr Mayor, forget the bright lights, look down and see what's going on on the ground. Let your limo driver drop you off at the robots at ...

Ex-apartheid cop is up to dirty tricks again
DONALD Card reverts to his dirty tricks. This former apartheid cop sarcastically criticised Balfour Ngconde for alleged racial slurs (DD, Nov 5). He lambasts affirmative action, transformation in sport and land distribution as a mere excuse by gov...

The ANC, the poor and the Constitution
This is the first of two consecutive articles written by Norman Reynolds and Hugh Jagoe. Part two will be published tomorrow. THE CABINEThas announced that it will make a decision in January next year about the introduction of a Basic Income Gran...