Moveable Feast Marino Corazza SO what have the ducks and geese been seeing lately? All those crested white creatures, black East India beauties, pintail and teal cuties, orange beaked, web-footed relatives of Donald and Daffy that inhabit Zoo Lake — what do they see from their safe amphibious vantage point? On weekends they see the […]
Armscor and Fuchs Electronics have offered R108-million to settle an embarrassing US court case, report Paul Stober and Eddie Koch ARMSCOR is willing to pay up to R54-million in an out- of-court settlement to save its officials the embarrassment of being extradited to the United States for a trial involving charges of violating the international […]
Critical Consumer Pat Sidley WHEN an upmarket Johan-nesburg supermarket pulled all the chickens from its shelves it sparked a salmonella scare in the city. An investigation into the matter revealed that Woolworths’ fridges were empty because various diseases had affected the fowls and the supermarket was waiting until the chickens reached a larger size before […]
The disappearance of the seven single is more than a disappointment for music fans, writes Fred de Vries. Bands find it more difficult to make it and the taste of listeners is growing increasingly conservative DOES anyone still remember the good old single? That seven-inch slab of vinyl, preferably packed in an arty picture sleeve? […]
Chris Louw PROFESSOR Peter Vale, director of the Centre for Southern African Studies at the University of the Western Cape, has applied to become director general of the Department of Foreign Affairs. The post — presently occupied by Rusty Evans — was advertised recently. Vale, who was directly involved in drafting ANC foreign policy before […]
The family of a murdered woman has accused the Witwatersrand attorney-general of delaying the prosecution of the alleged killer, a man suspected of being involved in a trade union scam, reports Stefaans Brummer A FORMER security police captain allegedly at the centre of a “dirty tricks” operation against a trade union, and who is a […]
Chris Louw and Gaye Davis MINISTER without Portfolio Jay Naidoo will address non- governmental organisations in Johannesburg today to discuss their role in the government’s reconstruction and development programme. The two-day conference, to be attended by more than 200 NGOs and representatives of civics, unions, youth and women’s organisations from across the country, comes amid […]
Weekly Mail Reporters CLASHES in Lesotho are unlikely to tempt South Africa to exercise its newfound moral authority and military muscle to become a regional policeman on the subcontinent. Minister of Foreign Affairs Alfred Nzo made it clear yesterday that although he was still awaiting reports from the country’s ambassador in Maseru, Gerhard Visser, South […]
PROMINENT European anti-apartheid activists are angry over President Nelson Mandela’s failure to condemn human rights abuses in Indonesia.
The CP has put two proposals to the government with one prupose in mind — supremacy in the rightwing. Jan Taljaard reports THE Conservative Party and Afrikaner Volksfront’s (CP/AVF) proposals to the government last Friday on their possible partici-pation in constitutional talks were a last-ditch bid for supremacy within the rightwing. By putting two alternative […]