As the ASA is stripped of yet another duty, rows among ad agencies continue, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy Conflict concerning comparative advertising continues to brew in the ad industry. This follows the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) demand for the withdrawal of a recent BMW advertisement. The advertisement, a product of the agency Hunt Lascaris TBWA, was […]
SWIMMING: Julian Drew JUST after 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning in Durban the rain was sheeting down outside the King’s Park swimming pool. It had been raining hard all morning and the start of the day’s proceedings at the South African national aquatics championships was delayed by half an hour to allow competitors and officials […]
Stefaans Brummer SOUTH AFRICAN arms dealer Ters Ehlers — ex- President PW Botha’s last private secretary — has been implicated in “unauthorised” flights of a Russian cargo aircraft between South Africa, Namibia and Angola. Namibian Deputy Minister of Transport Klaus Dierks last Friday said his department had grounded the Russian- registered Antonov-12 in Grootfontein pending […]
Gaye Davis A HUGE computer database, capable of cross-checking names, dates and incidents, will be the truth commission’s most powerful tool. It will allow for fast checks on the truth of victims’ claims. It will also ratchet up the pressure on perpetrators to come forward — and come clean. Building the database is central to […]
world The construction industry is positive about a better year ahead, locally and internationally, reports Karen Harverson Despite a slowdown in the building and construction industry towards the end of last year, the industry is optimistic that activity will pick up significantly by mid-1996. “The situation is a lot better now than two years ago,” […]
game Tactics in the one-day game are constantly being updated and coach Bob Woolmer is making sure the South Africans stay ahead of the game CRICKET: Mark Lamport-Stokes SOUTH AFRICA’S national coach Bob Woolmer has earned a deserved reputation for being an innovative cricketing thinker and strategist. nnnSince the former Kent and England all-rounder took […]
Ricardo Dunn Accusations of abuse and intimidation of labourers on smallholdings in the Vanderbijlpark area are not uncommon. The local district surgeon says he treats up to 40 cases of abuse every month. Cheryl Felix, Vaal River chair of local government, says she has worked with numerous cases of physical and sexual abuse in the […]
Unmarried fathers who want to raise their illegitimate children could have the right to do so, if draft legislation before the Cabinet is approved, reports Rehana Rossouw JOHN WILLIAMS (25), a printer from Mitchells Plain, is forced to sneak visits with his six-year-old daughter at her Sunday school class. The child’s mother cut off Williams’s […]
Sugarboy Malinga has always had the talent to make it to the top, but circumstances always contrived to prevent him meeting his destiny — until last weekend BOXING: Gavin Evans THERE are times in the self-contained little universe of prize fighting when the whole thing seems no better than a crass charade; and then there […]
Journalists rally in support of Fred M’membe and Bright Mwape, jailed for criticising the Zambian government. Justin Pearce reports Newspaper editors from South Africa and Namibia are to visit Zambian president Frederick Chiluba to demand the release of the two Zambian journalists who were arrested this week. The journalists face an indefinite prison term if […]