Without financial back-up and in defiance of Parliament and the IBA, BopBC is going it alone, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy With only days to go before the Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation (BopBC) is obliged to integrate with the SABC, the broadcaster, once the mouthpiece of Lucas Mangope, is defiantly going it alone, outside of the Independent Broadcasting […]
Ricardo Dunn The Department of Correctional Services will hold an inquiry into the death in custody of rightwinger Lood van Schalkwyk. Right-wing groups have accused the Government of National Unity of negligence after the death of van Schalkwyk. The groups claimed this week that the Correctional Services authorities knew of Van Schalkwyk’s serious gall-bladder infection, […]
As the Nigerian crisis increases and more students face the wrath of the regime, little help from Africa or the West appears forthcoming. Gaye Davis reports WHEN the telephone rang in Austin Abada’s sparsely furnished Cape Town flat this week, it heralded news as familiar as it was terrible. Abada, a Nigerian student leader seeking […]
lively in Rome TENNIS: Jon Swift THERE is, provided you are not a tennis player, something remarkably special about Rome. The city lives. This vibrancy in the very air you breathe in the Italian capital is in sharp contrast to the stadium where the nation plays its tennis. The Foro Italico is as dead as […]
Ad agencies disagree over the best means of advertising on the Internet, Jacquie Golding- Duffy reports on the possibilities Advertising agencies are being swept up by the “fourth media” — the Internet — but they disagree on whether it is more viable to handle it in-house or commission work to an outside agency. While VWV […]
AS the parties move into intense negotiations about “provincial powers” at an Arniston bosberaad, the African National Congress is trying to dismiss the suspicion that its latest drafts on provincial competencies do not comply with the constitutional principles, inherited from the multi-party negotiations at Kempton Park. The constitutional principle in question states that provincial powers […]
CRICKET: Jon Swift IN SOME ways, the B&H final at Wanderers on Friday evening is cause for celebration of the cricketing rather than liquid variety which so marred some matches in the day-night series this summer. In other ways it is cause for regret. The enduring sponsor bows out of the game in this finale, […]
South Africa must be treated as a developing country by the EU if the free trade agreement is to succeed, says ANC MP Rob Davies. Lynda Loxton reports The European Union was sharply criticised this week for trying to treat South Africa as a developed nation rather than one with special development needs. African National […]
The Safety and Security Ministry’s gamble in banning traditional weapons paid off this week when IFP marchers left their pangas and spears at home, writes Eddie Koch A COMBINATION of firm policing and delicate negotiations with moderate groups in the Inkatha Freedom Party defied fire-and- brimstone predictions that the ban on traditional weapons would cause […]
A new structure will replace the archaic Publications Control Board, writes Jacquie Golding-Duffy South Africa’s apartheid-era censor board is grinding along on taxpayers’ money to the annual tune of R2,5-million, although censorship is in direct conflict with the government’s interim Constitution. The Directorate of Publications, commonly known as the Publications Control Board, will, however, be […]