Yearly Archives: 1994

Now that the struggle for socialism has been fought, won and ignored, Cape Town’s beaches are hot on the heels of shopping malls, writes Justin Pearce WHEN I was a laaitie, Cape Town’s beaches were for swimming. Or at least for building sandcastles, exercising the dog and similarly wholesome pursuits. The nearest thing you got […]

Reg Rumney provides an indispensable guide to framers of RDP-correct policy documents RDP may spell “rape, destroy and pillage” to some cynical business people, as Minister without Portfolio Jay Naidoo has suggested. To many businessmen and women it simply spells “money”, judging by the number of opportunistic press releases that linked the RDP to all […]

IT was a poignant moment: one veteran of the struggle acknowledging the contribution, over decades, of the other. Struggle-hardened cadres fought back tears as President Nelson Mandela, his own voice breaking with emotion, honoured “an outstanding revolutionary” who had “touched the lives of millions” by his example of “militant and unswerving commitment” to the ANC. […]

Arthur Goldstuck Real-life snippets from the small-town press The best of `94 JANUARY * MICHAEL ABRAHAMS, charged with theft of TV sets, tells a Durban regional magistrate he was forced into a life of crime by his wife’s constant nagging. The magistrate tells him to stop blaming his wife, and gives him two years. * […]

So censorship has gone? Hustler magazine editor Jeff Zerbst discovers few people want to celebrate this new- found freedom of expression with him “The cummulative (sic) effect is an important factor when a publication like Hustler is discussed.” (The censors) “We agree.” (Hustler) THE Weekly Mail &Guardian has invited me to celebrate the death of […]

The police and Kathorus residents are working together to bring peace to the townships, reports Mduduzi ka Harvey FOR East Rand policeman Godfrey “Godfather” Maditsi (34), Thokoza was once a place where he feared to tread — with police targeted by self-defence unit youths at the height of political violence in the 1980s, harassed by […]

The ANC conference hammered home to delegates that power comes hand-in-hand with responsibility, writes Gaye Davis ANC DELEGATES may have left the organisation’s 49th national conference more united and motivated than ever before — but the coming months will prove no easy walk. In a sense, the ANC has bought itself some time: grassroots delegates […]

At last the WM&G is able to disclose the identity of the man behind the momentous Inkathagate scandal. David Beresford reports THE Weekly Mail & Guardian can finally disclose the identity of the man behind the Inkathagate scandal, who may have changed the course of South African history. He is Brian Morrow, a former member […]

plan THERE are 22 presidential lead projects for which a total of R1,06-billion has already been disbursed. Progress, as reported from the presidential office, is as follows: 1. Land restitution: Business plan approved on December 1, R5,1-million allocated. 2. Land redistribution: Business plan approved on December 1, R2,1-million allocated. 3. National capacity building programme: Business […]

including sex Laws relating to prostitution and homosexuality are no longer enforced and the government has altered it stance on sex. But have South Africans shaken off Calvinistic attitudes? Mark Gevisser reports WHEN South Africa’s first democratic parliament decided to amend its rules to allow for broader definitions of who could qualify as “spouses” of […]