Ann veleth RECENT moves by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini have raised the stakes in his power battle with Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Zwelithini refused to attend this weekend’s “imbizo” called by the IFP-dominated House of Traditional Leaders to adopt a “Zulu covenant” binding Zulus to the party’s “federalist” constitutional principles. In the past, […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift THE heart of the misguided and unbearable paternalism which has caused so much damage on so many fronts in this country beats strongly in the bosom of South African rugby. It threatens to rend the game asunder in this country. For nowhere else is arrogance of the “papa knows best” syndrome more […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
They are the remnants of an ancient hunter-gatherer society — and they’re still on the move, in carts that carry their homes. Sheep-shearing is their livelihood, and their life is often harsh and violent. But it is also gradually disappearing. Eddie Koch visited the Something about the word “verge” best defines the life that Johanna […]
The photographic exhibition Positive Lives: Responses to HIV challenges our most cherished concepts of life and death, writes HAYDEN PROUD AWARD-WINNING South African photographer Gideon Mendel is the focal point and bridge between this country and Britain in Positive Lives: Responses to HIV, a ground- breaking exhibition which enables poignant comparisons to be made on […]