Yearly Archives: 1994

After his successful comeback at Sun City last week Brian Mitchell is aiming for a title fight BOXING: Drew Forrest UNLOVABLY arrogant he may be, but Brian Mitchell showed he had lost little of his two-fisted magic after a three-year layoff at the Sun City Superbowl last Saturday. Beefier, harder-hitting but marginally slower than when […]

Pat Sidley SPORTS sponsorship received a major boost this week when the Department of Health announced stringent new regulations for advertising and packaging tobacco products. With both packets and adverts re-quired to carry visible health warnings, sports sponsorship may look to the to-bacco companies as the only way to go. The new regulations take effect […]

MUSIC: Johnny de Goede THE power of her voice and stage presence alone have ensured Heather Mac a prominent place among South Africa’s rock luminaries. I remember being spellbound by one of her performances with Ellamental in 1984, after which the band went to Europe, basing themselves in Ireland. They even got to play at […]

Urban Creep have been called an ‘African REM’. Can they live up to it? Luke Alfred reports THERE’S nothing to stop Urban Creep becoming the best band in South Africa. They have a high standard of musicianship, stage presence, some great epic songs and an uncommonly well-articulated vision for the future. They also have a […]

The cabinet is split over whether South Africa should send troops to Angola, reports Eddie Koch THE bells that toll for peace in Angola have struck a note of discord in Nelson Mandela’s government. The president — faced with stiff resistance from opposition parties to United Nations requests for troops to help hold the ceasefire […]

CINEMA: Fabius Burger THERE are amazing explosions in Blown Away. It’s just as well, considering the plot is so silly. A mad bomber (Tommy Lee Jones) kills off members of Boston’s bomb disposal unit, trying to wipe out James Dove (Jeff Bridges) — something to do with trouble back in Belfast. Blown Away is an […]

The formation of a House of Traditional Leaders in kwaZulu/Natal has created conflict between the ANC and IFP, writes Farouk Chothia BEHIND the ANC’s opposition to a House of Traditional Leaders in kwaZulu/Natal lies realpolitik: it wants to prevent its newly-acquired asset, Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini, from being exposed as a monarch without a crown, […]

Media and Marketing Clive Simpkins MARKET-SHARE greed versus service standards calls for scrutiny in the cellular telephone industry. I was advised by an overseas cellular guru that on the launch of cellular services, the existing telephone network operator is usually in a better technical position for the first year or so. It is then typically […]

COUNTRIES listed in the 1989 version of Log 17 are as follows. Group Three (sales prohibited): Zambia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania as well as Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Kampuchea (a note states this depended on “the course of peace negotiations”), Laos, Libya, Mongolia, Syria, South Yemen, Nicaragua, North Korea, Vietnam and Russia. Group […]

Critical Consumer Pat Sidley JUST when you thought it was safe to dump your increasingly expensive Telkom phone and service and invest in a cellular alternative, Telkom has opted for legal action to make it less tempting to get the “better connection”. Court action — which was postponed this week, but will go ahead in […]