Sam Ramsamy is likely to be invited to become a member of the IOC — a just reward for his long battle against racism in sport, writes Julian Drew ON a weekend when the Springboks and All Blacks will be battling it out for the right to face each other in next Saturday’s Rugby World […]

One offshoot of the controversy surrounding Iscor’s proposed Saldanha mill is that the locals are finally being consulted, reports Rehana Rossouw The good news about Iscor’s planned Saldanha steel mill is the emergence of real consultation and debate at grassroots level. This was well illustrated last Friday when cabinet members and members of the Western […]

Jan Taljaard TRUE to his nickname, “Kaalvoet” Thysie de Villiers, the former Recce linked to the assassination of Professor Johan Heyns, appeared in court this week in a pair of shorts and bare feet. De Villiers, who had also been sought in connection with three other murders and a massive arms theft from a Voortrekkerhoogte […]

Ann Eveleth The Wildlife Society of Southern Africa has called for the creation of an environmental court to hear cases involving environmental disputes. Wildlife Society representative Jeremy Ridl, who made the submission to the first public hearing of the KwaZulu/Natal Constitutional Committee in Durban this week, said the multi-faceted nature of environmental disputes requires people […]

Reg Rumney When is insurance not insurance? When it is offered by a company not registered as an insurer, of course. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), in its 1994 annual report, states that it has submitted to an attorney general (AG) for possible further action the case of a furniture company which has […]

THEATRE: David le Page THE spirit of Roy Campbell currently haunts the Alexander Theatre, in writer and director Anthony Akerman’s play Dark Outsider. But it is not the robust and extravagant ghost we might expect. In the second act Uys Krige, played charmingly by Alex Ferns, hails in a splendid bon mot the experience of […]

SA’s Catholic bishops will not tolerate condom demonstrations in their Aids awareness programme, reports Mapula Sibanda An Aids awareness worker has been fired — for showing people how to use a condom. Chrys Matubatuba, 31, an Aids awareness co-ordinator for the South African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) says his demise began last year after he […]

Jane Starfield DIVIDED SISTERHOOD: Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession, by Shula Marks (Witwatersrand University Press, R82,00) SHULA Marks’ study of the South African nursing profession is as pioneering as her other monographs and collections of essays have been. Her attention to gender was notably voiced in Not Either an Experimental […]

Justin Pearce A CIVIL suit against the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela and Cyril Ramaphosa arising from last year’s Shell House shootings has been stalled on the grounds that the applicant’s arguments were too vague. Masele Ndlovu, whose husband was shot dead in Johannesburg on March 28 1994, has brought the suit to seek compensation […]

Jacques Magliolo reports on the latest two firms to come to Adding to this year’s spate of listings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange were German chemical giant Hoechst and Eastern Cape-based Sovereign Foods Investments. The market capitalisation — issued shares multiplied by the share price — amount to R322-million, boosting the R80-billion already added in […]