Yearly Archives: 1994

MIKE PROCTER lost his job as the South African team cricket coach last weekend because he had failed to rekindle South Africa’s famed fighting spirit on the recent tour to England, according to Krish Mackerdhuj. The side ended up losing the third Test, as well as the two one-day internationals, and was humiliated by Holland […]

The king has severed ties with his `keeper’, but the battle for control will be put to the test on Shaka Day, reports Farouk Chothia AS Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini paced in the courtyard of the Enyokeni kraal after his Monday indaba with President Nelson Mandela and Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, he turned to princes […]

Two South Africans set off this week in the gruelling eight-month, 27 000-mile BOC Challenge SAILING: Jonathan Spencer Jones AFTER months — and in some cases, years — of preparation, the fourth BOC Challenge single-handed around the world race got under way in Charleston, USA, last weekend with a rousing sendoff from some 2 000 […]

Chris Louw THE squabbles that marred the negotiation process are repeating themselves in the cabinet — and again Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi is at centre stage, shadowed by his Italian/American adviser, Dr Mario Ambrosini. Buthelezi lost a battle to control next year’s local government elections when he left Wednesday’s cabinet meeting as the […]

Weekly Mail Reporter THE abortion debate looks set to start all over again with the appointment this month of a parliamentary committee that is likely to have the pro-choice and anti-abortion lobbies fighting it out. The 26-member committee, which will hear submissions from the public before recommending legislation to the cabinet, represents a wide spectrum […]

In his first interview since the royal shake-up, Prince Mcwayizeni Zulu talks to Ann Eveleth THERE was an emotive ritual outside King Goodwill Zwelithini’s palace gates last Tuesday to mark his rapprochement with Senior Prince Mcwayizeni Zulu. “In accordance with tradition, we each stood outside the palace gates and a man poured fire ash into […]

The White Paper on the government’s reconstruction and development programme could be a black day for fringe benefits. Reg Rumney reports THE White Paper released this week on the ANC’s grand plan to right the economic wrongs created by apartheid could spell bad news for the few perks employees have left. The White Paper released […]

Gambling’s main players revealed their hands this week, but they’ll have to wait for the referee to call the game. Stefaans Brummer reports WITH only a week left for submissions on the future of gambling, the main players are caught in a flurry of posturing and positioning to carve as large as possible a slice […]

MOSS CHIKANE, national co-ordinator of the former National Co-ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles (NCCR), comes in for severe criticism in the report on NCCR activities. A former United Democratic Front activist and Delmas treason trialist, Chikane decided unilaterally, while a NCCR regional liaison officer, to take managerial and financial decisions without any consultation, […]