CRICKET: Jon Swift THE initial reaction to the International Cricket=20 Council’s (ICC) ruling on the naming of squads for the=20 1996 World Cup in Pakistan was that the process was=20 being hurried along with undue haste. Perhaps so, but it needs to be looked at more closely=20 from this country’s perspective. Not least of all=20 […]

Karen Harverson South Africa will not accept foreign aid unless it can=20 afford to finance the follow-through infrastructure or=20 it will end up like the rest of Africa — full of half- built hospitals and unfinished roads, said Finance=20 Minister Chris Liebenberg.=20 Speaking at a recent business breakfast, Liebenberg=20 said South Africa had a reputation […]

Gaye Davis JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar said on Thursday he would be meeting with President Nelson Mandela, “hopefully within the next few days”, to finalise the procedure for appointing members of the Truth Commission. Urgency will be the watchword: the 18-month lifespan of the Truth Commission started ticking away this week, when President Mandela’s signature […]

This weekend’s IFP national conference will look at ways for the party to consolidate its power in KwaZulu/Natal, report Ann Eveleth and Mehlo Mvelase The rumour mills have been peculiarly quiet this week in the run-up to the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) national conference opening in Ulundi tonight. Party sources poured cold water on earlier […]

Gaye Davis URGING stronger sanctions against French President Jacques Chirac’s decision to resume South Pacific nuclear tests, a range of South African organisations have called on the government to sever military and nuclear ties with France. Spanning environmental groups and religious and human rights bodies, the organisations made the call in letters to Foreign Minister […]

Gauteng’s Security MEC Jessie Duarte is ready to defy the Constitution — if that’s what it takes to halt the spiral of taxi warfare, reports Jonathan Ancer Warring taxi drivers were warned this week that they would be denied bail if arrested. Speaking at a conference of the South African Long Distance Taxi Association (Saldta), […]

Rocky’s on a roll, and he’s doing his damnedest to shake off the moss of his past, reports Stefaans BrUmmer ROCKY MALEBANE-METSING — coup maker, would-be provincial premier, ANC ally turned thorn — has reinvented his role in politics. The vehicle for the emergence of the new Rocky is the “triple-P”, his People’s Progressive Party, […]

FINE ART: Ivor Powell BARELY a year ago, painter and collagist Sam=20 Nhlengethwa was being hyped as the future of South=20 African art. His collages, it seemed, fitted into an=20 important cultural project: the reclamation, via the=20 found object, of an authentic urban African experience=20 from the distortions of history. His latest exhibition, at the […]

Anne Eveleth Pietermaritzburg Mayor Rob Haswell’s call this week for the Durban-Maritzburg corridor to become South Africa’s 10th province — divided by soft boundaries from the rest of conflict-ridden KwaZulu/Natal — has struck at the heart of the incessant demarcation wrangles stalling Durban’s local government process. Won by the African National Congress in last year’s […]

Reg Rumney Between 1990 and 1994 the income of squatters in=20 Gauteng declined in real, or adjusted-for-inflation,=20 terms while that of hostel residents stayed much the=20 same and those living in houses were much better off. This is the finding of a Unisa Bureau of Market=20 Research report on income and spending of black=20 households […]