THEATRE: Hazel Friedman Isnt poverty, illness and death worse than waiting for a boy to ask you to dance? The answer is NO! This plaintive soliloquoy, spoken against the backdrop of the Greek Cypriot Club in Bedfordview, encapsulates the agony of Mira (Irene Stephanou) and just about every other teenager who wishes to be everything […]

Selecting which teams and individuals will represent South Africa at the Olympics is a controversial task, and the decision on the hockey team is a particularly hard one, writes Julian Drew ON Saturday morning in Durban Sam Ramsamy, president of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (Nocsa), will announce the first contingent of competitors […]

The public service is run by a code so detailed and archaic that it prescribes acceptable body weights for job applicants and provides endless blockages to government progress, reports Anton Harber ONE issue, more than any other, will determine the extent to which President Nelson Mandela’s government succeeds this year in its ambitious mission. It […]

With the legalisation of gambling becoming a reality in South Africa, various problems are arising, reports Simon Segal THIS weeks parliamentary ad hoc committee debate on changes to the National Gambling Bill brings legalised gambling closer, and accentuates certain problems. The enabling legislation provides for the granting of 40 licences, a National Gambling Board (NGB), […]

The Get Ahead Foundation’s Don MacRobert bemoans the fact that most overseas development funding is going to the government rather than NGOs FINDING the money to fund the government’s essential Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) was a relatively easy task. Finding ways to ensure that people at grassroots level benefit directly from the programme is, […]

The minister of health said her department could not have been expected to consult every NGO about a R14- million Aids play. Vuyo Mvoko and Justin Pearce report Minister of Health Nkosazana Zuma has defended her department’s decision to spend R14,27-million on the production of a play on Aids awareness, despite massive criticism from non-governmental […]

South Africas cola industry has not reached full capacity, but when it does, beware of friction between Coca-Cola and Pepsi, warns Karen Harverson While Gauteng-based Pepsi is planning to set up at least five new bottling plants by the year 2000 in its bid to go national, market leader Coca-Cola may be looking to consolidate […]

As the symbols of the past moved out, the RDP moved in to kick-start the process of parliamentary transformation, write Richard Calland and Christelle Terreblanche THE long-awaited transformation of Parliament, driven by Speaker Frene Ginwala of the African National Congress, will be paid for by a one-off grant of R82,5-million from the coffers of the […]

Participant PETER KLATZOW reports on the highlights of Africa’s first International Composers Workshop SOUTH African composers have learned to accept the fact that there are fat years and lean years. The feast or famine syndrome is dangerous, primarily because the ingestion of so much new music in so short a time can lead to cultural […]

Stefaans Brummer THE media are under renewed attack in some African countries, if a recent spate of arrests and bannings, and an apparent assassination attempt are anything to go by. The Post of Zambia, long a thorn in the side of President Frederick Chiluba, this week came under the strongest censure from government yet, when […]