Jacquie Golding-Duffy talks to Jill Chisholm, the woman at the helm of SABC television, about the successes and failures of the new- look channels The new-look SABC has some distance to travel before its revamped schedules are up to scratch. While television head Jill Chisholm is by-and-large pleased with the relaunch, she concedes that schedule […]

Marion Edmunds It was a casual weekend — Hernus Kriel was wearing baggy tracksuit pants, Sheila Camerer a light pink slack suit, John Mavuso designer moccasins and FW de Klerk a checked shirt. But behind the informality and bonhomie in Hermanus, the Nats were in deadly earnest. “Tell me,” said De Klerk, leaning in earnest […]

The offices of the attorneys general around the country are virtually bare, reports Vuyo Mvoko OFFICES of the attorneys general in Gauteng and the Cape are heading for a crisis as senior prosecutors make a dash for entry to the Bar before it closes next week — undermining a whole spate of “third force” trials […]

The latest person tipped as editor of the Sunday Independent is the Star’s political editor Kaizer Nyatsumba. Nyatsumba is one of many names being bandied about to fill the shoes of Shaun Johnson, who has been appointed editor of the Argus in Cape Town. Johnson replaces the Argus’s longtime editor, Andrew Drysdale, in a couple […]

Justin Pearce ANYONE who had lost hope for international socialist solidarity in the 1990s would have been heartwarmed by the scenes at Johannesburg International Airport on Tuesday, when the first 96 Cuban doctors arrived in South Africa. The placards held by the crowd of people who came to greet the doctors ranged from the mundane […]

Moroccan sensitivities over the Western Sahara-Polisario dispute almost resulted in the sabotage of South Africa’s initiative in North Africa, reports Gaye Davis TOP-LEVEL diplomatic efforts — including a telephone call from President Nelson Mandela to the king of Morocco — brought Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo’s recent North African trip back from the brink of disaster. […]

Madeleine Wackernagel The appointment of Graca Machel to the Thebe Investment Corporation’s (TIC) board should ensure it a first bite at Mozambique’s privatisation cherry. Litha Nyhonyha, executive director of TIC and chief executive officer of its financial arm, Msele Financial Holdings, said the new appointments underline TIC’s intention to be a major player in the […]

The row over money spent on an Aids play has brought the relationship between the executive and legislature under the spotlight, writes Gaye Davis THE balance of power between the executive and legislature is becoming a central and highly contentious issue in what some politicians see as improper interference in the parliamentary process by the […]

Ricardo Dunn Every Thursday from 8:30 to 9:30pm, the airwaves of Western Cape’s Bush radio 89.5 fm are tickled pink with an hour of gay programming. Africa’s only “queer” radio programme is a serious exercise in “camp” dialogue and commitment to positive images of gay people. In the Pink, a programme produced by and for […]

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser ANOTHER stunning French pianist, another enterprising programme, another accomplished conductor, another triumph. Cecile Ousset first visited South Africa long before she became a household name in countries like Britain. Here for the first time in many years, with the National Symphony Orchestra, she gave a performance of Saint- Saens’s second piano […]