Meshack Mabogoane Prospects for major commercial property developments in emerging markets, or black areas, could increase dramatically once black local government has been legimitised. A morass of technical hurdles, such as identifying owners of land and registration of title deeds, still remains to be cleared up. So, too, does the role of numerous community development […]

The Japanese could give us some pointers on how to =20 attract doctors to rural hospitals, writes David =20 MUCH attention has been given to alleviating the =20 chronic shortage of doctors for rural service both here =20 and elsewhere. The Department of National Health’s =20 drive towards the development of a health care system […]

Janet Wilhelm=20 Age: Somewhere between angry young political firebrand =20 and boardroom fossil.=20 Also known as: Ex-Benny Alexander!=20 Appearance: Also in transition. Businesslike blue suits =20 with fewer lapses into ethnic West African dashikis and =20 Mao tunics.=20 Is that what they call dressing for success? He is =20 following the modern fashion trend of […]

Justin Pearce=20 South Africa’s failure to support an outright ban on =20 landmines brought it into direct opposition to =20 Mozambique at the United Nations conference on =20 landmines, which ended inconclusively in Vienna this =20 week. Mozambique is one of the countries worst affected =20 by landmines.=20 The conference is to reconvene in December […]

Fine Art: Hazel Friedman If the success of an art exhibition were predicated solely on theoretical justification, then Persons and Pictures: The Modernist Eye in Africa (Newtown Galleries) would be a winner. The fact that, in visual terms, it translates into a slightly uneven display of works executed in the vocabulary of a bygone genre […]

The flipside of the university fracas=20 * AS a former SRC president of the University of =20 Durban Westville (1993) and currently a member of the =20 executive of Convocation, I am concerned about the =20 negative reports that it has received in the press and =20 I have begun to believe that the press […]

Lynda Loxton The South African wine industry is flourishing. Exports are booming and heavy rains in the Cape hold out promise of a good crop. The only fly in the ointment remains the antiquated system through which KWV continues to dominate the price farmers get for their wine. Distillers Corporation chairman Boetie van Zyl was […]

BLACK pride returned to Washington on Monday in the =20 shape of the Million Man March. The contrast between =20 the last time such civil rights numbers assembled and =20 now could not be greater. =20 Three decades ago the great black leader, Martin Luther =20 King, warned his people “not to thirst for freedom […]

IN THE DOCK: Former Italian prime minister Silvio =20 Berlusconi, committed to trial in Milan on corruption =20 JAILED: Keith Moore, Sting’s former accountant, =20 sentenced to six years for stealing Stg 6-million from =20 the rock star=20 HONOURED: Cape Times editor Mogsien Williams named =20 Sowetan Journalist of the Year at a Press Freedom […]

Mamphela Ramphele has trod a path from black =20 conciousness activist in the 1970s to the top of the =20 academic and corporate world in the 1990s. She is =20 tipped as the next vice-chancellor of the University of =20 Cape Town, sits on the board of Anglo American and =20 helps run the Nelson […]