Yearly Archives: 1994

Mapula Sibanda LIKE Martin Luther King, whose poster adorns his office wall, Jody Kollapen also has a dream, and his appointment this week as national director of Lawyers for Human Rights will afford him the luxury to realise it. Kollapen’s dream is to change the confrontational relationship between the police and human rights lawyers, building […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift IT is of crucial interest that the national selectors are at last sticking to their much publicised “horses for courses” theory, one that has not meant much more than a throwaway line at times in the recent past. And equally of note is that the Man of the Match awards in both […]

TELEVISION: Luke Alfred CHRIS DU PLESSIS is a former Vrye Weekblad journalist and now director of CCV-TV’s Thursday night amalgam of local culture, Not Quite Friday Night. It contains all sorts of things — local music, off-beat interviews, comedy sketches. Last week’s programme featured one of the more bizarre forms of local subculture: a koedoebokdrolverspoeg […]

A secret memo to the cabinet promotes the `sensible’ operations at the Thor Chemicals toxic waste plant in Natal. Eddie Koch reports THE Department of Environment Affairs has sent a secret memorandum to the cabinet saying the Thor Chemicals toxic waste plant in Natal is doing “sound” work — though a commission set up by […]

Nombuyiselo Maloyi YOU can’t miss the Freedom Square RDP and Healing Centre, launched on Saturday. Fifty shipping containers painted in all the colours of the new South Africa flag now occupy the field in Kliptown, near Soweto, where the Freedom Charter was drafted 49 years ago. The traders’ containers and corrugated iron units were donated […]

The two men in charge of ministering the environment display two distinctly different styles, reports Eddie Koch WHEN cabinet ministers Kader Asmal and Dawie de Villiers were confronted by angry demonstrators outside a toxic waste site near Johannesburg earlier this year, their body language described two distinct styles of managing this country’s environment. De Villiers […]

Jeremy Cronin, SACP leader,writes that the ANC cannot sit back and enjoy its honeymoon AT least three complex dynamics will be at play in the ANC’s conference. The first, the leadership issue has, rather tediously, been the focus of considerable media attention. Emerging out of three decades of illegality, the ANC has had to develop […]

Ironically, NGOs face their most serious crisis in the new South Africa. Paul Zille suggests scenarios for their survival IF there is one aspect of the development debate in South Africa about which there seems to be complete consensus, it is the importance of non-governmental organisations. Yet, ironically, NGOs today find themselves in the most […]

The Katz tax commission mostly makes sense, but some recommendations seem to have been hastily arrived at, reports Reg Rumney Most recommendations of the Katz tax commission were hailed by commentators this week — with some bothersome exceptions that pointed to hasty decisions and gave the impression of tinkering with the system. Under fire are […]

TRADITIONAL leaders called for land restitution claims to be considered from 1652 instead of 1913 at the conference of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa in Midrand last weekend. Contralesa president Chief Phathekile Holomisa also expressed concern over the only-partial political freedom guaranteed traditional leaders in the interim constitution. “It denies chiefs their […]