With a few more good performances, Claire Nitch can=20 attain her goal of a top eight ranking SQUASH: Mark Lamport-Stokes REALISM would rank high among the many qualities=20 possessed by South Africa’s number one women’s squash=20 player Claire Nitch. The 23-year-old from Gauteng, while not sacrificing a=20 burning ambition to be the very best she […]

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 […]

CINEMA: Justin Pearce KEN LOACH’S Raining Stones is the cinematic equivalent=20 of protest theatre — only without the protest. After a=20 decade and a half of Tory government, working-class=20 council housing estates in the north of England are not=20 happy places, and Raining Stones is an account of the=20 misery created by unemployment, a broken-down […]

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 […]

Meshack Mabogoane The road to a full-scale market economy in Mozambique=20 is, like peace, “irreversible”, President Joachim=20 Chissano said in Sandton recently when he addressed a=20 special meeting of businesspeople. He said joint ventures for the development of major=20 infrastructure were the “only policy option available”=20 and “we may no longer guarantee the development of […]

Clive Simpkins SOME time back a position was advertised for someone to=20 “bring Parliament to the people”. We need such a person=20 now to focus on marketing local authorities, who have=20 been all but immobilised by the impending local=20 The Greater Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan=20 Council (TMC) intends to free up politicians for=20 election canvassing, thus […]

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 […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift THERE is something vaguely intimidating about coming=20 face to face with a living legend, even one as openly=20 receptive to the advances of lesser mortals as cricket=20 great Sir Garfield Sobers. At 59, the hair is greying and the lines demarcating=20 the edges of the mouth more deeply embedded than in his=20 […]

The IBA report will precipitate a rush for satellite=20 television. Neil Bierbaum reports THE rush for satellite television is on. If the=20 Independent Broadcasting Authority reports stands –=20 bringing a two-year wait before South Africa gets a=20 private terrestrial television station — new=20 broadcasters will take to the skies. This is the implication of the […]

Marion Edmunds The Department of Foreign Affairs is to adapt its definition of the ‘family’ to suit the new South Africa. Before 1994, diplomats living in overseas missions recieved certain allowances for their ”dependants” or children. Now Foreign Affairs wants to change the definition of ”dependants” to make it possible to include members of the […]