Yearly Archives: 1994

The UCB president says Hansie Cronje will replace Kepler Wessels as cricket captain, writes Paul Martin THE United Cricket Board of South Africa this week confirmed the accuracy of a WM&G report in last week’s issue disclosing plans to replace Kepler Wessels as captain with the present vice-captain Hansie Cronje this year. Commenting for the […]

Getting the right players together, getting them fit and winning is new South African coach Kitch Christie’s aim RUGBY: Jon Swift IN A society, indeed in a game which consumes the interest of a not insignificant portion of that society, the new South African coach Kitch Christie has conducted a klopjag which has shaken not […]

CRITICAL CONSUMER Pat Sidley PARLIAMENT is an interesting place these days. When the Minister of Health, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, participated in the debate on the price of drugs on August 17, the House, it seems, was fully in support of her views. This included Dr DR Madide, the Inkatha Freedom Party’s spokesman on health. […]

During the week, they’re bakers, drivers and teachers — but on Sunday, they dance to keep tradition alive. Matlhodi Malope reports from the African Cultural Heritage Trust competition THOKO NDIMANDE was often punished for her love of dancing at school, when she dodged lessons to watch troupes perform at the Market Theatre. “Dancing is in […]

Sibusiso Nxumalo DIFFERENCES on strategy and accusations of undemocratic practices in the South African Students’ Congress (Sasco) branch at the University of the Witwatersrand have led to a split in the organisation, the resignation of an executive committee member and dwindling support. The split can be traced back to the violent protests that rocked Wits […]

Stefaans Brummer THE R35-million funding crunch of the national peace structures reaped its first major casualty this week when employees of the Wits-Vaal region, the country’s largest, received two months’ notice. The imminent collapse of Wits-Vaal, which has about 90 paid staff members and runs more than 20 peace committees with volunteer members from communities, […]

Players on both sides have much to prove in Saturday’s Lion Cup final RUGBY: Jon Swift IT IS not wrong to say that Western Province have not had a great season thus far on paper, but they have always looked a better side in reality than the results would indicate. At Ellis Park tomorrow, they […]

The country’s captain-in-waiting tells why and how he believes South Africa’s cricketing future must be strengthened CRICKET: Paul Martin HANSIE CRONJE, whom the selectors plan to appoint national cricket captain next month, has pinpointed a lack of all-year-round fitness as a significant factor in South Africa’s failure to win the Test series or either of […]

International development support for South Africa is being snagged on a paradoxical problem, writes Simon Segal THE much-hyped flow of foreign aid to South Africa is being held up by a paradoxical problem: the government does not have any clarity about what exactly is being offered, and the donors won’t move until the government proposes […]

Stefaans Brummer DEPUTY defence minister Ronnie Kasrils this week found himself caught in the middle of tensions between the Northern Cape ANC and the army. ANC VIPs were barred from entering the army’s Lohatla battle-training school, at the centre of a land dispute, when Kasrils and Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom went on a fact-finding […]