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/ 23 September 1994
Arts Alive visitor Salif Keita had to shrug off his noble ancestry to pursue his first love: music. He spoke to Bafana Khumalo AFTER reading reams of interviews and profiles of Salif Keita in the American press, one could be forgiven for expecting him to be a 10-foot warrior god. In most of what has […]
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/ 23 September 1994
The values and popular culture of the National Peace Accord are still very much alive. It would be foolhardy and disastrous to clip its wings, argues Glenn Hollands ALTHOUGH the nation is over the hurdle of national elections, it would be irresponsible to take the existing (relative) calm for granted. In fact, any move to […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Undaunted by the crackdown on the truckers’ blockade, Turning Wheel is gearing up for more action. By Sibusiso Nxumalo IN an exclusive interview, the leader of the Turning Wheel International Workers’ Movement has shed the first light on the mysterious organisation behind the Mooi River Plaza truckers’ blockade. Richard Madime is a member of the […]
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/ 23 September 1994
THIS week’s imprisonment of stockbrokers Greg Blank and Andrew Forbes has been hailed by some experts as a victory against white-collar crime, yet their convictions in fact highlight inadequacies of our legal system. “Rather than demonstrate the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s ability to rid itself of insider traders,” says a corporate lawyer, “the convictions set unwanted […]
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/ 23 September 1994
AREAS ACT Drew Forrest AN inner-city housing specialist has warned that the tough official line on illegal immigrants is hampering the regeneration of South Africa’s urban slums. Carien Engelbrecht, Planact’s housing co-ordinator and former legal adviser to the South African National Civics Organisation, sees a parallel in the effects of the Group Areas Act on […]
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/ 23 September 1994
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 […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Wiseman Khuzwayo STOCK exchange whizzkid Greg Blank, now serving time for fraud, will be treated the same as any other prisoner, says the Department of Correctional Services. Blank began serving his eight-year sentence last Saturday after exhausting his opportunities to appeal against it. But South Africa does not have US-style special prisons for “white collar” […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Heavyweight hope: Tomorrow night is the first step in Corrie’s climb to the top BOXING: Gavin Evans FOR a boxer whose last fight but one saw him in the prone position, Cornelius Johannes Sanders sure is a lucky fellow. The former Northern Transvaal B centre has been all but guaranteed a shot at Michael Moorer’s […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Moveable Feast Marino Corazza DURING our courting years one of the simple treats my wife and I would indulge in when we had a little spare cash was to have dinner at La Lampara in Norwood. La Lampara is a fishing boat lamp used at night to attract the fish. The eaterie had similar beckoning […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Krish Mackerdhuj believes that conditions for cricket unity are now worse than three years ago CRICKET: Paul Martin THE President of the United Cricket Board, Krish Mackerdhuj, has made an unprecedented attack on “old regime” attitudes and actions — especially internationally — among senior cricket administrators and officials. He said the united front forged three […]