MINISTRY of Sound opened the doors of its London nightclub in 1991, at the height of the rave explosion. Granted the UK’s first 24-hour music and dance licence, it has developed into a multi- faceted, award-winning centre for dance and club culture, spreading its name through pioneering projects and aggressive — sometimes terrorist- style — […]
SADC members meet on Friday to approve a regional security initiative, but their action has been criticised by human rights organisations. Iden Wetherell reports A SUMMIT of Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state meeting on Friday in Gaborone to launch a regional security partnership has provoked protests over the omission of earlier proposals […]
Marion Edmunds THE Labour Market Commission has recommended that the Home Affairs Department relax its immigration selection policy to allow more skilled foreigners to settle and work in South Africa. And in its report, released by the government last week, the commission recommends that immigration policy be overhauled completely to suit the economic and social […]
Simon Segal THE consensus forecast from 10 of South Africa’s major economic units is that gross domestic product (gdp) growth is still short of what is required to absorb people coming on to the labour market — and that it will slow next year. Sluggish and slowing growth will result in lower interest rates but […]
The Constitutional Court must heed the dangers involved in giving corporations the same rights as individuals, argues American consumer advocate Ralph Nader SOUTH Africans should be aware that a key provision of the new Constitution risks entrenching a new form of power abuse in the country: autocratic rule by big corporations. The new Constitution establishes […]
Ann Eveleth KwaZulu-Natal’s local government polls were probably the most peaceful political event the historically stormy province has ever seen. Here and there a dark cloud hovered over the province’s 3,5-million voters as political opponents waged a final stand to protect — or extend — their turf, and in some cases angry voters’ tempers burst […]
Ann Eveleth INKATHA Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi strongly hinted this week that his party would quit the Government of National Unity in the next few weeks, leaving the African National Congress to rule South Africa alone in the run-up to the 1999 elections. Buthelezi told the Mail & Guardian he would support a […]
Belgians are joining the protests against a costly armaments plant in Kenya, reports Greg Barrow from Nairobi THE citizens of Eldoret, a small town at the top of the Rift Valley, cannot believe their luck. Eldoret, once known only for its mushroom farming and world- class middle-distance athletes, has become Kenya’s main beneficiary of government […]
MATTHEW KROUSE met up with the cast of Indiscretions during rehearsals this week `ARE real tears wrong?” asks actress Fiona Ramsay of director Robert Whitehead during a break in rehearsals. Eyes all red and puffy, she’s just been emoting heavily in the maddened climax of Indiscretions, which began previewing last night. Real tears, it transpires, […]
Emigration consultancies seem to be booming. Jeremy Gordin attended one of their seminars — and decided it was enough to make him stay WHAT was making our feet itchy, my wife and I agreed, wasn’t the tax rate. Nor the bond rate. Nor even the unavoidable realisation that our (remaining) deputy president looks and (much […]