Deputy Agriculture Minister Thoko Msane Boldly Thoko where no woman … When Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964, Police Minister Sydney Mufamadi and Labour Minister Tito Mboweni were just beginning primary school. Thoko Msane, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and the youngest member of Mandela’s Cabinet, had just been conceived. There are […]

Openness in government has led to the rise of a new group of parliamentary lobbyists, reports Marion The new South Africa has given birth to a new breed of opportunists. They lurk in the corridors of power with files under their arms, monitor the parliamentary timetable, sit diligently through long committee meetings, and take every […]

AS the Truth Commission comes into being, it is as well=20 to dispel some of the humbug surrounding it. There are those who argue that this commission will=20 discover that strange phenomenon called The Truth. Even=20 if we were naive enough to believe that truth was=20 something a group of wise people could find in […]

There’s too much theory, too little skill on this year’s Martienssen Prize exhibition, argues IVOR POWELL WHAT is to be said about the Wits University fine arts department’s Martienssen Prize Exhibition, which opened this week at the Gertrude Posel Gallery? Just that the most arresting piece on the exhibition in fact isn’t on it at […]

CINEMA: Trevor Steele-Taylor MICHELE SOAVI’S magnificent Della Morte Dell Amore, which has crept on to the circuit at the 8 Cult Cinema in Rosebank, is likely to creep as shyly off the circuit if last Saturday night’s audience of four is anything to go by. Sad — for this is a hugely entertaining and visually […]

Karen Harverson Gold mines serviced by Anglo must be rightsized if they are to survive, said chairman of Anglo American Corporation’s Gold and Uranium division Clem Sunter at the announcement of the quarterly results last week. Rightsizing may involve reductions in the scale of operations at shafts, shaft closures, or both. It is only effected […]

GOLF: Jon Swift IT WAS hard to equate John Daly, the man who held the claret jug aloft at St Andrews last weekend, with the red-eyed rebel who had to be carried shirtless, rubber legged and near comatose to his room at the Sun City But then, they are surely not the same person. This […]

Meshack Mabogoane detects big underlying shifts in black business at the Nafcoc congress There was a strong government presence at the 31st annual conference of the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce (Nafcoc) held this week at Sun The main theme of the conference was how black business could emerge from the sidelines to become […]

Gavin du Venage GAUTENG Safety and Security Minister Jessie Duarte has=20 been snubbed by magistrates after they refused to meet=20 her to discuss bail conditions for people charged with=20 violent crimes. Duarte asked for a meeting last month to discuss bail=20 conditions, in particular those for people accused of=20 taxi-related violence. The request was turned […]

Shadley Nash Eastern Cape Muslims responding to a call to take up=20 arms against the rebel Serbs in Bosnia are being=20 trained in guerrilla warfare at a secret venue outside=20 Port Elizabeth. Sources have also confirmed that a training ground has=20 been established in Pietermaritzburg and another is=20 expected to be established in Cape Town. […]