In a discussion paper for the ANC conference, Pallo Jordan advocates greater involvement with the black bourgeoisie, writes Charlene Smith `No serious person could pretend that South Africa today is not a country of far greater opportunity than it was 10 years ago” – but should the African National Congress deliberately foster the emergence of […]

Thebe is moving to consolidate its position by: * Restructuring of Thebe into six divisions from its present four. The two new divisions will be Thebe Communications, which will include its broadcasting and telecommunication interests (these include Khaya FM radio station, its television bid company Station for the Nation among others) and Thebe Travel and […]

Ferial Haffajee A Second Look A million men . huh. No more than 2 000 people pitched up at the Union Buildings last Saturday to show that “Real men don’t abuse women and children”, and half of them were women. The organisers point out that about 3500 men started the march at Church Square, many […]

Closing Valkenberg hospital would involve a sacrifice by the people least able to bear it, writes Lin Sampson Valkenberg: one alights rather than arrives on its pulsating terrain, as if on another planet. It is an eccentric place, a hovering satellite of hope and despair, dishevelled in part, but with pretty gardens that stretch down […]

Charl Blignaut The year-long saga around the alleged financial mismanagement involving the board of the Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal (Pact) has continued to spiral. The Mail & Guardian has learned that the board is currently under investigation by the Public Protector. Also under investigation is Pact’s subsidiary Johannesburg theatre, the Windybrow Centre for […]

FRIDAY, 2.20PM: WEST INDIES A began their four-day match in Newlands against Western Province with a narrow escape — opening batsman Leon Garrick edged the second ball of the match to the slips, where Eric Simons didn’t quite manage to catch it. But it was Simons who got his revenge not long after, trapping Garrick […]

FRIDAY, 10.30AM: AFTER three years in the drafting, government on Thursday released new competition policy guidelines that will see a new watchdog body set up to investigate abuses by powerful corporations. Presenting the new policy guidelines to the National Economic Develpment and Labour Council, Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said it is hoped the […]

Andy Duffy Universities and technikons are bracing for the worst as they await news of how the government plans to spend its money on campuses next year. Several institutions warned this week that they expect a cut in their government funding, and are already making plans to axe staff, scrap courses, and hike student fees. […]

Mungo Soggot Penuell Maduna’s Liberian adviser, Emanuel Shaw II, took $10 000 from a top European oil trader after saying he could promote the trader’s interests with the minister. Maduna knew of the transaction and asked another businessman – and not Shaw – to repay the trader the money Shaw had taken. The trader, Fakhry […]

For many months there have been rumblings involving the proposed closure of Valkenberg hospital in Cape Town. In May 1997, Western Cape Department of Health head Dr Tom Sutcliffe said Valkenberg, like all psychiatric hospitals in the province, would have to shrink. Only a core psychiatric service, to treat seriously mentally ill patients, and the […]