Karen Harverson The power of advertising on television is uncontested but so far only big business can afford the medium. The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is now offering small and medium enterprises the opportunity to buy airtime at reduced rates for six “We believe that the television exposure will boost their businesses sufficiently to […]

A health and safety centre has been closed after one of its employees developed lung cancer, reports Eddie Koch A health and safety centre that has played a major role in highlighting the dangers of asbestos has been shut down by the government — because it failed to report that one of its workers was […]

Rowan Callaghan Negotiations between the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC) have gone largely unnoticed until a deadlock in talks caused the corporation’s annual general meeting (AGM) to be re-scheduled last week. The SBDC has long been a target of criticism by particularly small black business, who have […]

Rehana Rossouw NEIGHBOURS of Cape Town gangster killer Harry Joshua believe his crime was not that heinous: he was only cleaning up a little. “He was just ridding the area of some of the vermin,” was one of the descriptions of Joshua’s shooting spree last May which left five young men dead and two wounded, […]

The sound of poetry rocked gently against the walls of Pretoria Central Prison last weekend. Hugh Lewin, a political inmate of Central in the 60s, reports on a day with LKJ and eight South African poets Ask any prison graduate: there’s one fear greater than the fear of going to prison. It’s the fear of […]

A lack of regulation has allowed some training colleges to charge high fees for worthless qualifications, writes Jack Rampou LOOPHOLES in the training industry allow private colleges to charge high fees for courses that are not recognised as qualifications by most employers or the National Training Board. In the past, there were tax incentives for […]

Gaye Davis DEPUTY President FW De Klerk’s decision to back the Western Cape wing of his party in its stand on the demarcation dispute would have ”deep consequences for relations between the African National Congress and National Party and the government and the NP,” said Deputy Minister of Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development, Mohamed Valli […]

THE Conference of Editors was started some two decades ago as a bold attempt to bridge the gap between English and Afrikaans editors of mainstream newspapers. Its structures reflected that narrow goal, appropriate only to the strange politics of the time: in order to avoid conflict between these two disparate groups, it was a body […]

Theatre: Shaun de Waal Insofar as Beautiful Thing, at Cape Town’s Baxter Studio, resolves itself without undue trauma to the audience, it is a ”feel-good” production. We come to care about these working-class East-Enders. (Their accents, though, make one wonder whether this shouldn’t have been called Beautiful Fing.) Jonathan Harvey’s play tells the story of […]

Eddie Koch The Cabinet this week appointed new members to the National Parks Board (NPB) in a move that will speed up conservation reforms designed to make the country’s game reserves more relevant to the needs of the rural The appointment of the new national conservation body, made at Cabinet’s meeting on Wednesday, is also […]