Yearly Archives: 1994

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The West Indies are taking on India at the moment in a country where cricket is the greatest uniting force CRICKET: Mike Marqusee `THERE is simply nothing in cricket which matters more than a series for the Ashes,” declares Christopher Martin- Jenkins, the authorised voice of English cricket’s ancien regime, in his new anthology, The […]

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 […]

Rightwingers are blocking the setting up of new local structures in four provinces, reports Justin Pearce WITH the transition to democratic local government battling to stay on schedule, conservatives are attempting to obstruct the process in at least four provinces. White councillors and black chiefs have stalled the establishment of transitional structures in kwaZulu/Natal, the […]

New South African coach Bob Woolmer is faced with a bowling problem CRICKET: Jon Swift IT IS of more than passing interest that Bob Woolmer, our new national coach, sees his first priority as working on the confidence of the players who make up the South African side. “I think one of the problems is […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift IN the height of Cup final fervour, it would be well not to forget that this country is only a week away from the first test against Marcelo Loffreda’s Pumas. It would be foolish, considering the problems which currently face national coach Kitch Christie, to dismiss the tourists on the basis of […]

Trevor Steele Taylor EMINENT French documentary filmmaker Marcel Ophuls, renowned not only for his extraordinary exposes of Nazi war crimes but also for his volatile lawsuits against producers, has withdrawn from the South African International Film Festival. Ophuls, who was due to arrive yesterday for the opening of the festival, cancelled his visit at the […]

Scientists are unanimous that culling Namibia’s seals this year makes no sense. But the government is persisting . Fiona Macleod reports AN urgent appeal has been made to the Namibian ombudsman to intervene in the government’s plan to cull thousands of seals this year, which scientists have warned threatens to wipe out the country’s entire […]