Sanco is struggling to survive amid tensions between its socialist stalwarts and newborn capitalists,reports Mungo Soggot ONE of the bulwarks of the anti-apartheid struggle, the South African National Civics Organisation (Sanco), has virtually ground to a halt, crippled by debts of R1,5- million. A report read by former Sanco secretary general Penrose Ntlonti at the […]
A change of venue from Zaire to Togo is as good as a holiday for South Africa’s footballers, but they will have to work hard to get a good result SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi LET us start by separating fact from fiction. South Africa can defeat Zaire in the World Cup this weekend and fail to […]
The welfare minister insists new, leaner grants for poor children must be made for the sake of equality. But critics say she is robbing Peter to pay Paul. Marion Edmunds reports THE Cabinet may ram the government’s controversial child grant system through Parliament by proclamation, if there is not enough time to get a Bill […]
Fifties jazz stars, The Manhattan Brothers, are being reclaimed in a new documentary. GLYNISO’HARA recalls the days of King Kong and kwela MEETING and listening to musicians active before the rock’n’roll era is a pleasure rarely savoured in this country. Peter Rezant, the leader of the Merry Blackbirds, formed in 1929, and active into the […]
TV personality Saira Essa’s R1-million wedding has been slammed as a publicity stunt, reports SUZY BELL in this week’s Cultural Sushi column A WICKED quote doing the rounds in Durban: “Following Saira Essa around India is like being trapped in a cupboard with a postcard of the Taj Mahal.” The words come from a television […]
Philippa Garson LOOK! It’s got imparipinnate leaves and obovate leaflets on a short petiole: it must be a Xanthocercis zambesiaca! Such an observation would stir as little excitement in the bellies of aspirant nature lovers as would a sighting of Psuedogyps africanus – unless, of course, the party was told it was looking at a […]
Madikizela-Mandela has been seeking R3,5- million from British television for her life story, report Rehana Rossouw and Tangeni Amuphadi report CASH-STRAPPED Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has made an extraordinary approach to British television: she is offering to ”tell all” for R3,5 million (500 000). A draft contract by Randburg-based business consultant, Udo Froese, was prepared last year […]
Pauline Springett in London THE number of people across the world worth more than $1-million has tripled in 10 years and now tops six million, according to a report published this week. This not-so-elite pool of people each with more than $1-million to his or her name has $17 000-billion at its disposal, a figure […]
Roger Boka’s recent move into the tobacco industry signals an attempt to break up the white-dominated cartel, writes Jan Raath ROGER BOKA’S way of hating is unnerving. What he has said and written is crude, full of bad grammar, unreason and errors of fact. You think it has boiled up from brimstone in the pit […]
A frenzy of activity around the Lubombo development in KwaZulu-Natal signals a drive to boost employment ahead of the 1999 elections. Jim Day reports THE need to show progress on one of the largest development proposals in Southern Africa has Cabinet ministers, the premier of KwaZulu-Natal and the MEC for economic affairs and tourism, all […]