Yearly Archives: 1994

Shadley Nash THE Labour Party of South Africa will hold a special congress on Saturday where it is likely the party will dissolve, ending 30 turbulent years. For one of the party leaders, Peter Hendrickse, son of LP leader Reverend Alan Hendrickse, the dissolution of the party will be met with mixed feelings. “It will […]

GOLF: Jon Swift IT IS often difficult to get Brent Chalmers, tour director of the FNB professional golf tour, to be as moderate in his approach as to call a spade a shovel. He has never hesitated to say exactly what he thinks. It is, in an era of sports administration doublespeak, an often admirable […]

The political parties will gain R1,5m a month from a new proposal to pass on state subsidies. Chris Louw reports A SCHEME to give political parties large state subsidies is being slipped quietly into place in the guise of a “constituent’s allowance”. The plan, approved by the Speaker of Parliament and put to the Cabinet […]

CINEMA: Fabius Burger Lars von Trier’s Zentropa is, in a way, about speed — most of the film takes place on a train. But at least some members of the audience will fall asleep: the opening sequence is a mesmerising, extended shot of railway tracks, with narrator Max von Sydow hypnotising us, taking us into […]

The Markets Jacques Magliolo AT last: excellent news for all those analysts who were retrenched between 1990 and 1992. This week’s announcement that United Kingdom stockbrokers James Capel is to acquire a 51 percent stake in local firm Simpson McKie hails the return of demand for Johannesburg Stock Exchange mining and industrial analysts. Following the […]

JOURNALISTS were barred for a second time this week from reporting on issues discussed in open parliamentary standing committees, despite the ANC’s repeated pledge to transparancy. Last week Labour Minister Tito Mboweni told journalists that his briefing to a standing committee was “off the record” and could not be reported. This week an ANC senator, […]

Smoking `ganja’ and growing dreads is our religious right, argue Rastafarians. Tell that to the constitutional court, say the prison authorities. Eddie Koch reports DO dreadlocks have rights? “Yo mon,” says Jupiter Jons of the Rastafari Unity Movement Alliance (Ruma). And two of the country’s leading experts on the new Bill of Rights agree. Jons’ […]

Farouk Chothia THE Food and Allied Workers’ Union has suspended its Natal leadership and frozen all regional bank accounts after the Natal executive refused to implement a controversial new constitution, said Fawu sources. The Fawu Natal region — the second largest in the union — will launch an application in the Cape Town Supreme Court […]

Former SADF soldiers are training their old enemies in Angola. To counter accusations of being mercenaries, they are expanding into civilian operations, reports Stefaans Brummer FROM the hilltop an ex-South African Defence Force soldier gave the order. On the dusty plain below a ragtag bunch of adolescent Angolan army recruits advanced, artillery rounds bursting metres […]

A drama is unfolding at Argus Newspapers, where a top business consultant has been brought in to streamline the corporation. Drew Forrest reports A TOP Australian business consultant is at the centre of a convulsion in Argus Newspapers that has already brought job cuts at the Pretoria News, the axing of the group marketing team […]