Yearly Archives: 1994

Bruce Cohen A MASSIVE European Union (EU) development package for South Africa — R500-million in 1995 — is currently being finalised in Brussels. It will bring much-needed relief to many NGOs which have been staggering through a funding crisis since the April election. NGOs, however, will have to get used to sharing the EU funding […]

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 […]

Media and marketing Clive Simpkins ERSTWHILE marketers re-entering South Africa should be urged to consider an RDP focused and negotiated approach on their geographic location. Despite Eastern Cape Premier Raymond Mhlaba’s best efforts, Ford, who divested in 1985, has chosen not to reinvest in this, the second -largest region in the country. Not getting a […]

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 […]

Cricket is now integrated in South Africa and the national team is taking on the best in the world, but in Lenasia they still support the Pakistan team CRICKET: Luke Alfred THOSE who attended the limited overs match between Pakistan and a Transvaal Invitation XI at the MR Varachia stadium in Lenasia last Thursday were […]

Native tongue Bafana Khumalo `TIS a season to be jolly. `Tis time for even an angry young black man who is fast becoming a cynical old fart to dispense with the vitriolic poison pen and embrace all of humanity with enthusiasm, in a spirit of peace and love. I am happy. So much so that […]

THEATRE: Robert Greig Janice Honeyman’s Jukebox Jol (at the Civic Theatre, Johannesburg) reflects more than it says. It reflects the existence of much musical talent and creative vigour but little structure or sense. Christmas is, of course, the season of licensed blandness, and this one concludes a year noticeable for its theatrical dullness. The demise […]

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 […]

A five-storey-high screen and 13 000 watt speakers are just part of the attraction of Cape Town’s new Imax cinema. Peter Frost reports AFRICA’S first Imax cinema — hyped as “much more than movies”, with its 15m by 22m screen — opened in Cape Town this week, launched by visiting actor James Earl Jones. The […]