Rehana Rossouw Although touted as a model for primary health care in many parts of the world, the Alexandra Clinic is dying for lack of support in South Africa. For more than six decades the clinic has served its underpriveleged community, now numbering about 300 000, caring for up to 500 patients a day. This […]
Marion Edmunds TRADITIONAL leaders are targeting President Nelson Mandela in a campaign to get more power before local government elections. Head of the Congress of Traditional Leaders, Chief Patekile Holomisa, sent Mandela a letter last week reminding him of promises made during multi-party negotiations. These included the setting up of provincial houses of traditional leaders […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift A SCANT three weeks separates South Africa from the first Test as world champions — on September 2 the World Cup holders face Wales at Ellis Park. On the face of it, Wales do not present an insurmountable hurdle. The game is currently at a nadir in the principality and the revamped […]
South Africa has bucked the international trend towards neo-liberalism. But this important challenge can only be carried through if the country’s social democrats make themselves heard, argues Eddie Webster In a recent article in the London Review of Books, RW Johnson rightly points to the fact that the Government of National Unity has accepted the […]
A PROFESSIONAL dog-fight is raided and three of the spectators are found to be police officers. The Cape Law Society discovers that 20 of its members have been making under-the-counter payments to public officials and tries to protect them. Nearly two million schoolchildren go hungry, because someone has defrauded the national feeding scheme. A study […]
Pat Sidley Gauteng’s public hospitals are in a state of crisis. Hospital budgets are strained to breaking point, as the government has cut a whopping R600-million from the province’s health budget and sent the money to historically under-served provinces. Patients crowd Gauteng’s health services from all over the country, but there is no way yet […]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ian Tromp MICHAEL MEYERSFELD’S photographs are stylish and technically accomplished. But they cannot be described as innovative or groundbreaking — the claim made for them in the press releases for his show at the Everard Read Gallery. The main claim is that this is an exhibition which will alter the very status of photography […]
THEATRE: Mark Gevisser THERE is a wonderful moment in Valley Song when Athol Fugard, playing himself, turns on his audience and explains that he moved to the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda because ”I wanted to return to essentials, to the real world” where, away from the chimerical world of theatre, of ”actors and producers”, […]
Some South African manufacturers are going World Class, finds Anton GrUtter At least some South African companies have taken up the challenge of being internationally competitive, a Japanese authority in the field of World Class Manufacturing (WCM) has found Far from finding a devastated industry, Takeyuki Furuhashi from Chu-San-Ren, a Nagoya-based industry consultancy service, was […]
Johannesburg Child Welfare has permitted a gay couple to adopt a child — a first in South Africa, writes Gavin Duvenhage The first ever officially approved gay adoption took place in Johannesburg last month when a lesbian couple received a newborn baby from Johannesburg Child Welfare. Johannesburg Child Welfare, who managed the adoption, confirmed that […]