Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings take issue with Eddie Webster=D5s=20 social democracy SOCIAL democrats must come out of the closet, says sociologist Eddie=20 Webster in a recent article (M&G August 18 to 24). Indeed they should.=20 But Webster=D5s vision of social democracy is an impoverished one. His=20 enthusiasm for the labour movement seems to have […]

SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe THE South African team, which assembles on Monday in preparation for=20 the Africa Nations Cup finals which take place in South Africa from=20 January 13 to February 3 next year, know that they have a momentous task=20 ahead of them. This week they were drawn in a group with Cameroon, Egypt and […]

Shaun de Waal AT the James Phillips Memorial Concert at Mega Music in Johannesburg=20 this weekend, you will be able to hear a wide variety of bands paying=20 tribute to the late songwriter and bandleader; you will also be able to=20 contribute to the Sunny Skies Trust =D1 raising money to cover medical bill= =D1 […]

Neil Bierbaum=20 Residents and owners of flats and townhouses could face difficulties if the= opt for satellite television. Most municipal by-laws only allow for one aerial stack or satellite dish.= However, existing units do not have the correct wiring to carry the high=20 frequency (IF) signal from a satellite dish to the Integrated Receiver=20 Decoder […]

Rehana Rossouw CAPE TOWN either has an Olympic bid which benefits the poor, or the=20 Games will not take place in the city in 2004, a coalition of organisations= has warned. Slamming the initiative as a =D2big business bid=D3, the Coalition for=20 Sustainable Cities (CSC), representing 35 trade union, political,=20 environmental and development organisations, this […]

Karen Harverson speaks to Transport Minister Mac Maharaj on the links to=20 sub-Saharan continent=20 The South African government has proposed to the Southern African=20 Development Community (SADC) that the trunk roads leading into other=20 sub-Saharan countries be upgraded. =D2It would be financed by the imposition of a cross-border tariff which=20 would be used to rehabilitate […]

KwaZulu-Natal=D5s embattled attorney general has agreed to reconsider a hit= squad prosecution to avoid a major confrontation, reports Ann Eveleth EMBATTLED KwaZulu-Natal Attorney General Tim McNally ths week=20 stepped back from the brink of a major confrontation with the Investigation= Task Unit (ITU) probing hit squads in the province. In a remarkable volte-face on Wednesday, […]

Marion Edmunds Despairing of the difficult conditions under which they work, a number of= parliamentary officials are seeking relief from the long, hard days in song= More than a hundred parliamentary officials have formed a choir, and have= already had two practices.=20 The chairperson of the new choir, Hansard official Marina Griebenow, said= she had […]

Justin Pearce M-NET=D5S African Film Awards are coming out of hiding for the first time= this year, with a festival which will bring the best of the competition ent= to audiences in Cape Town and Gauteng. The festival line-up comprises seven films from West and North Africa,=20 something which is made possible by the opening […]

Lack of funding is behind last week=D5s resignations at Pact, reports Barba= THE arts community cheered in May when the Minister of Arts and=20 Culture saved the Market Theatre with a R3-million grant. On Friday last=20 week, Pact=D5s chairman and chief executive officer resigned, and five head= of department announced they would follow. The events […]