Yearly Archives: 1994

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, […]

Moveable Feast Marino Corazza ACCORDING to Marco Polo, milk ices were being sold in the streets of Chinese towns in 3000 BC. The Italians, who are renowned for their ice-creams, can thank the Chinese for its introduction — Polo brought the recipe back from China in 1274. Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) was said to […]

Senior National Parks Board members have pushed their own self-destruct button. Eddie Koch reports A SHAKE-UP in the management of South Africa’s game reserves is on the cards. Senior members of the National Parks Board have — in the face of pressure for them to resign — pushed their own self-destruct button by asking the […]

WE have sympathised with new cabinet ministers who have had to grapple with sometimes recalcitrant departments as they try to take hold of the machinery they need to implement their policies. So we are quite taken aback at Minister of Defence Joe Modise’s frank admission that he seeks no such control over his charge, the […]

Vuyo Mvoko THE story of the annual Old Mutual National Choir Festival can be summed up in the words: a tale of love fulfilled through years of suffering. “It’s like a miracle every year,” says Wits School of Music head Carl van Wyk, patron of the festival. “It’s definitely the premier event in the choral […]

The release this week of Natural Born Killers raises the question of whether violent films encourage violence in real life and should be censored. They don’t and they shouldn’t, argues Shaun de Waal (also see film review below) OLIVER STONE’S film about a pair of casual serial murderers, Natural Born Killers, opens in South Africa […]

Eric Naki THE yet-to-be-established House of Traditional Leaders in the Eastern Cape looks set to be a thorn in the flesh of premier Raymond Mhlaba. Rhetoric from traditional leaders in the province indicates that the government may face a drawn-out battle. The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa), which represents a majority of […]

You want a Monet, but can’t afford to pay the price? No problem, says the self-styled queen of fakes. She spoke to Hazel Friedman DEONA VAN VUUREN is disarmingly honest. She calls a spade a spade. Which is pretty impressive given the fact that, in her line of work, spades often pass for spoons, and […]

The prison service is breaking its own guidelines on the treatment of HIV-positive prisoners, reports Mark Gevisser WHEN the kitchen staff of Johannesburg Prison were told, in September last year, that blood would be taken from them as part of a routine annual medical checkup, “Gerrit” thought nothing of it. Two weeks later, he was […]

Vuyo Mvoko STORMY petrel of the North-West, Rocky Malebane-Metsing, still expects to be reinstated as the regional government’s MEC for agriculture — despite premier Popo Molefe’s pledges to the contrary. Molefe, who fired Metsing two weeks ago, has insisted that the latter cannot be accommodated in the provincial cabinet but may be given a lesser […]