This week’s SADC summit saw quibbling among the region’s leaders, but a few strides were made nevertheless, reports Stefaans Brummer WHEN the Southern African Development Community heads of state and government postponed their lunch at Johannesburg’s World Trade Centre on Monday, observers suspected there was serious quibbling in the air. Two closed sessions of an […]

Coach Bob Woolmer is full of innovative ideas that will=20 have the old guard choking on their gin and tonics CRICKET: Ahitisham Manerjee PIONEERS in sport come in many guises. Occasionally=20 they are even unaware that they are breaking new=20 ground. The South African under-24 cricket squad,=20 having just completed a highly successful month-long=20 tour […]

ANC MP Ela Gandhi argues that the state’s social assistance schemes are discriminatory, and should be extended to all Among the many pieces of apartheid legislation in our country there is one which has major implications for the Government of National Unity — the Social Assistance Bill and its regulations. In terms of this Bill, […]

Now in their seventh year, Not the Midnight Mass’=20 slightly sleazy edge is still razor-sharp, writes HAZEL=20 WHAT can you say about a troupe of actors-turned- singers who transformed an unemployment pit-stop and=20 after-hours slot between tits’n’bum time into an=20 institution? It’s pretty much been said before: the=20 eulogies to their Addams Family antics, their […]

BALLET: Stanley Peskin IN Marius Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty (presented by=20 Pact Ballet at the State Theatre), there are three=20 potent centres of power: the king and the ceremonious=20 nature of his court; the evil fairy Carabosse, who,=20 performed en travestie, makes a parody of the=20 christening rites at the beginning of the ballet; and=20 […]

Karen Harverson Local coal producers will be vying to clinch the=20 remaining coal contracts for Eskom’s R10-billion Majuba=20 power station which, when completed, will consume some=20 13-million tons of coal a year. =20 The power station, which has a design capacity of 40=20 036 megawatts, will entail the construction of six=20 sets, each consisting of […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin MIAMI Rhapsody is a quite amusing film about the=20 related themes of married life and adultery. Love is,=20 as Louis Armstrong informs us over the credit titles,=20 “just one of those things” and the self-indulgent=20 heroine Gwynn Marcus (Sarah Jessica Parker) comes to=20 the conclusion that love, hardly ever rhapsodic, is=20 like […]

Molefe Matlou Students at Tladi Comprehensive High School in Soweto studied in classrooms with broken windows, doors and leaking roofs, had no toilet facilities and had to crowd together in the four decent classrooms when it rained. But, despite these conditions, the school was never placed on the Department of Education and Training’s priority list […]

Eddie Koch The Department of Environment Affairs is being pressed by the Australian government to help weaken a proposed international ban on shipments of hazardous materials from industrialised to non-industrialised countries. The department has already been rocked by news that its consultants have allowed consignments of hazardous waste into the country, despite an official prohibition […]

Consol is restructuring its glass operation in a drive=20 to becoming globally competitive, reports Karen=20 Packaging and rubber manufacturer Consol of Germiston=20 is undertaking a major restructuring of its glass=20 operation to become globally competitive through=20 greater throughput and better utilisation of man hours. Speaking at the annual financial results, chairman Piet=20 Neethling said a […]