Yearly Archives: 1994

Michael O’Reilly SOUTH AFRICAN troops may have pulled out of Namibia years ago, but deep in the Angolan bush, Rocco de Wet — Grensvegter — battles on. Clad in the brown South African Defence Force uniform and sporting a butch moustache, the photo-comic hero is still waging his one-man war against the likes of the […]

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 […]

Openness appears to be anathema to those in the process of appointing our Constitutional Court judges, writes Dennis Davis ALL things considered, the shortlist of 25 lawyers made public by the Judicial Services Commission last week is impressive. In preparing its list of Constitutional Court nominees (after each is interviewed, the JSC will choose 10, […]

FINE ART: James Garner IT isn’t often in Cape Town that you get to see an exhibition devoted almost entirely to photographic works, let alone to photographs by women. Yet the success of Photo Works by Women, at the South African Association of Arts, can be put down to more than just politically-correct expediency. Curator […]

A document leaked to the Mail, alleging misuse of funds, caused a stir at the Cosatu congress, reports Drew Forrest FURIOUS Cosatu leaders are alleging a disinformation campaign aimed at smearing them and influencing the Cosatu congress after the leak of a confidential financial report to the Mail. The report points to misuse of money […]

IF it is the job of a newspaper such as this to draw the attention of opinion-makers to warning signals flashing in one region of the country, then it is time to do so. It is Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezis modus operandi carefully to choose an apparently small issue and blow it up to the kind […]

Weekly Mail Reporter POLICE say they are planning more raids on vice clubs after they swooped on a Johannesburg hotel last week, but acknowledge that they are more tolerant than in the past. Club Caligula at Hillbrows Dorchester Hotel was raided by the Narcotics Bureau and other police units last Thursday. Three Zambian and three […]

Rumours of the demise of the financial rand system are greatly exaggerated, reports Duma Gqubule A RESERVE BANK masterplan has caused currency speculators to burn their fingers and lose billions of rands betting against the rand over the past couple of months. Governor Chris Stals this week laughed at speculators who had put wagers on […]

CRICKET: Luke Alfred UP AND down Blighty recently could be heard the waffle of the chattering classes: “Will Gatting go?” they asked; “What about Robin Smith?” someone mused; “Is Angus Fraser really up to it?” Everyone, of course, was referring to the composition of the England cricket side to tour Australia later in the year. […]