BALLET: Stanley Peskin I DO not wish to attribute any intentions to Veronica=20 Paeper and her version of Spartacus, but any real=20 interest her ballet has belongs more to the influence=20 of Cecil B de Mille than to either the Bolshoi=20 (strictly socialist realism) or Howard Fast (liberal=20 humanist). What Pact Ballet presents is Paeper […]

The RDP Appearance: Jelly-like. Difficult to get a grip on, but=20 easy to mould into anything you want. Not to be confused with: The Reach for a Dream Project.=20 The Reconstruction and Development Programme is also a=20 warehouse of our hopes, but it promises much more than=20 a trip to Disneyland or a Hot Air […]

HERE are extracts from Goldstone’s report given to then=20 president FW De Klerksome weks before the April=20 Commisssion of Inquiry regarding the prevention of=20 public violence and intimidation. Report to the=20 International Investigation Team. 1. Introduction 1.1 In the first report dated 18 March 1994, the=20 Commission set out prima facie evidence of the=20 involvement […]

The labour ministry has brokered a compromise=20 on the stalled Labour Relations Bill,=20 report Eddie Koch and Marion Edmonds LABOUR Minister Tito Mboweni is set to break the=20 deadlock over the new Labour Relations Bill with a set=20 of compromises that have won broad support from=20 organised labour and also industry on flashpoint issues=20 which […]

Mapula Sibanda and Jonathan Ancer report on how ex- freedom fighters are using their military skills in=20 security companies When the South African National Defence Force (SANDF)=20 called on former freedom fighters to be integrated into=20 a national army some members of the Alexandra Returnees=20 Support Committee (Arsco) were not enchanted by the=20 offer to […]

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 […]

Rainbow volk It really was a motley collection of organisations that=20 came forward to represent the volk at their meeting=20 with Nelson Mandela last week — they ranged from the=20 Verkennersbeweging to Dames Aktueel and Jong Dames=20 Dinamiek, and from the Vereniging van Oranjewerkers to=20 the SA Voetplaat-Personeel Vereniging. What interested=20 the manne in the […]

Shadley Nash Less than a week after the Eastern Cape government=20 repeated its promise that 1995 was the year of=20 delivery, it endorsed proposals that will take food out=20 of children’s mouths. Cutbacks to the provincial government school feeding=20 schemes have been announced by the province’s Health=20 and Education Ministry in the face of acknowledgments=20 […]

Rehana Rossouw DURING the July parliamentary recess, when the nation’s=20 leaders flee from Cape Town to service their=20 constituencies or simply take a break, their seats in=20 parliament will be filled by the future leaders of=20 South Africa when the South African Youth Parliament=20 Organised by the Street Law project, the initiative is=20 bringing together […]

Patrick Goodenough in East London Former Transkei military strongman Bantu Holomisa took=20 a leaf out of the CIA’s book when he sent a military=20 signal to abduct a wanted man from Johannesburg in 1991=20 “like the Americans did with Noriega”. Holomisa effectively confirmed this week that=20 Vulindlela Mbotoli, the prisoner pardoned and released=20 on Monday […]