THEATRE: David Le Page KARNAVAL, at the Johannesburg Civic, is a reminder that one of South=20 Africa=D5s great dramatic talents is hiding inside Evita Bezuidenhout. Twen= years old, it remains poignant and very funny. Though it was undoubtedly=20 more outrageous in its language, and politically provocative, in the=20 Seventies, the loss of those resonances serves […]

A =D4Save the Cape=D5 campaign is being instituted to defuse increasing ra= tension in the Western Cape, reports Rehana Rossouw Racial tension could explode in the Cape if nothing is done to reduce=20 antagonism between coloureds and Africans, religious leaders and=20 politicians warned this week. Rallying behind a call to =D2Save the Cape=D3, the Anglican […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift WITH the wraps off the England tour party, the immediate reaction is to=20 contemplate a summer of speed. Allan Donald and Fanie de Villiers,=20 maybe even Brett Schultz, spearheading the South Africans. Devon=20 Malcolm, Darren Gough and Dominic Cork at the sharp end of England=D5s=20 six-man seam attack. Perhaps though this is […]

If centralism dominates the new Constitution, we will have wasted an=20 opportunity for grassroots empowerment, argues IFP MP Farouk Cassim IS THE most memorable epoch in the history of Africa about to be=20 witnessed with the finalisation of the Constitution of the new Republic of= South Africa? (The Second Republic?) Will our Constitution provide, in […]

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 […]

An inability to communicate their grievances lies behind the nurses=D5 stri= reports Pat Sidley Florence Nightingale died at Baragwanath Hospital this week, after a long= struggle against apartheid medicine and wages, and a terminal dose of=20 broken promises. A striking nurse shovelled soil onto the coffin when she told a radio=20 interviewer that Nightingale =D2had […]

Car sales surge August new car sales, benefiting from renewed demand by the car rental=20 sector and recently introduced competitively priced small cars, rose to 20= 969 units. This is 24,8 percent up on the 16 805 units sold during the same= month last year. Sales of new light commercial vehicles, bakkies and=20 minibuses rose […]

If enough money can be raised, Kruger Park elephants will be relocated=20 instead of culled next year, writes Eddie Koch THE controversial elephant cull in the Kruger Park will stop next year if= the National Parks Board succeeds with an ambitious plan to raise funds=20 from international animal rights organisations to expand South Africa=D5s= game […]

Philippa Garson WHILE supporting the provisions in the Draft Child Care Amendment Bill=20 on child labour, the National Children=D5s Rights Committee (NCRC)=20 describes the bill as a =D2band-aid=D3 for glaring problems and calls for t= drafting of an entirely new Act. The Bill uses a =D2pathology-centred model of dealing with children in need= of care […]

Aspasia Karras talks to Dr Danisa Baloyi about the challenges facing the=20 chairwoman of the Gauteng Tender Board Dr Danisa Baloyi=D5s appointment as chairwoman of the Gauteng Tender=20 Board could be seen as the culmination of an active mobilising presence in= the black business community, where she has been central in the formation= of such […]