The products may not be warm or comfortable, but=20 Hardwear is finding a growing market for clothes made=20 of scrap. MALU VAN LEEUWEN reports AFTER four years of obscurity, the curious products of=20 a Cape Town partnership are suddenly getting plenty of=20 attention. Hardwear (real names Michelle Vyncke and=20 Chris du Toit) is a small […]
Clive Simpkins FREE enterprise is posing problems as South African=20 sexuality creeps out of the closet.=20 The vague limbo of the present censorship regulations=20 has led to a plethora of skin magazines and videos=20 flooding the marketplace. In many instances this has=20 led to grave concern by parents whose children are=20 unwittingly exposed to adult […]
JOHN MAJOR took a gamble with his political career=20 because his party was divided. He triumphantly won the=20 gamble — but his party remains divided nevertheless.=20 This continuing paradox will cast a long shadow over=20 what is simply a sun-drenched political achievement: a=20 midsummer campaign launched in a rose garden nearly a=20 fortnight ago, clinched […]
Marion Edmunds POLITICAL parties have launched a massive manhunt for=20 50 000 politicians. Their talent scouts are trawling=20 townships, suburbs and villages this month to find=20 ideal candidates for the local government elections.=20 All the major political parties have started screening=20 potential candidates and all want the best of local=20 talent for themselves. The exact […]
A Goldstone report urging action against police ‘dirty=20 tricks’ was never released by president FW de Klerk.=20 Stefaans Brummer and Eddie Koch report THE Mail & Guardian today publishes a secret Goldstone=20 Commission report, sent to former President FW de Klerk=20 weeks before the April 27 election, and which urged=20 immediate action to “neutralise” police […]
Time magazine’s cover story on cyberporn has become the=20 centrefold of a raging row over its ethics and=20 accuracy, reports Bruce Cohen Accused of falling for a hoax of Hitler Diary =20 proportions, Time’s story is fuelling the growing=20 debate in the United States over censorship of on-line=20 services. Its Cyberporn issue is being waved […]
Chris Louw SOUTH AFRICA will decide before the end of the year on=20 assuming diplomatic relations with the giant People’s=20 Republic of China. Early indications are that Taiwan=20 will be told to close its embassy in Pretoria. Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad, reacting to a=20 report in last week’s M&G, said his department was=20 under […]
Gaye Davis IN terms of workload and resources, South Africa’s=20 members of Parliament have to be among the most over- stretched and under-funded in the world. Management consultants hired by National Assembly=20 Speaker Frene Ginwala and Senate President Kobie=20 Coetsee, to recommend ways of re-organising support=20 services for Parliament, will be consulting MPs,=20 management staff […]
Chiefs choose the cash over loyalty to IFP leader=20 Mangosuthu Buthelezi, but the lure of parliamentary=20 payment is stronger, write Mehlo Mvelase and Ann=20 T HE Inkatha Freedom Party has pledged an all-out=20 battle to halt the implementation of the controversial=20 Renumeration of Traditional Leaders Act passed in=20 Parliament last week, but rumblings on the […]
New Africa Investments chairman Nthato Motlana=20 has told South Africans to knuckle down to work to=20 convince investors that the country is a worthwhile=20 place to put their money, reports Karen Harverson New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) chairman Dr=20 Nthato Motlana has urged South Africans to stop toyi- toyiing and work to convince foreign investors […]