Sunday, April 30, 2000

Commentaries
• 2002 election factor is fuelling poverty
- ROBERT SHAW
• Review wage policy to reflect economic reality
- JAINDI KISERO
• It's all vanity, your Majesty, it's all vanity
- MATUMA MATHIU
• Mungiki and police: Who is more insane?
- PHILIP OCHIENG'
• Disturbing queries on SA's trade hegemony
- GITAU WARIGI

News Analysis
• Why Cotu must reinvent itself
- NZAMBA KITONGA
• So who is behind City Hall saga?
- GITAU WARIGI
• How state hijacks mass action demos
- MUGAMBI KIAI and WILLY MUTUNGA

Special Report
• Famine alert in Horn of Africa
- WAMUYU GATHERU
• Detention: Huge toll on humanity
- STEPHEN MBURU
• How detention was used to break people
- STEPHEN MBURU
• Detainees suffer a great deal of stress - Dr Frank Njenga
- STEPHEN MBURU
• Detention danger real, LSK warns
- STEPHEN MBURU

Letter From London
• Out of the mouths of babes . . .
- GERRY LOUGHRAN

Punchline
• Making pleas over issues one can handle
- TOM MSHINDI

Editorial
• Give TSC money to hire more teachers
• Councillors' hefty pay rises offensive