Residents of Cape Town’s gangster-ridden communities are making a determined effort to stem the spiral of crime and violence, reports Rehana Rossouw RASHIED and Rashaad Staggie are household names on the Cape Flats. The identical-twin brothers are referred to admiringly as “the untouchables” and “Cape Town’s Kray The Staggies are role models to an estimated […]

International drugmaking companies Eli Lilly of=20 Indianapolis and Glaxo-Wellcome of London announced this=20 week that they have agreed to buy South Africa’s largest=20 private drug benefits manager, Medikredit. =20 Medikredit processes prescriptions for more than half the=20 country’s 190 private health plans and virtually all 3 000=20 retail pharmacies.=20 The acquisition follows Lilly’s purchase of […]

# Nature’s own cull more efficient Daphne Sheldrick THERE is mounting public awareness of the nature of elephants. That they are sentient, caring beings comparable emotionally to ourselves is generally accepted. Parallel to humankind in development and lifespan, they have a strong sense of family and are concious of death, and they have a memory […]

shareholders is a source of disagreement among JSE=20 analysts, reports Jacques Magliolo The reorganisation and unbundling of Johannesburg=20 Consolidated Investments (JCI), which comes into effect on=20 Monday with the splitting of JCI into three new companies,=20 has aroused scepticism among Johannesburg Stock Exchange=20 From=20next week shareholders will own three JCI shares=20 instead of only one. […]

Prisoners go to court to prevent unauthorised HIV testing, reports Justin Pearce Prisoner Lucas Benny Gae didn’t know he was being tested for HIV. Nor did he know the result of the test until he was told to pack his belongings and move to the A Section of the prison: the single cells which, according […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin HOLLYWOOD has enshrined famous composers in romantic=20 titles: Chopin in Song to Remember; Brahms and Schumann in=20 Song of Love; Liszt in Song Without End and now Beethoven=20 in Immortal Beloved. But perhaps the chief influences on=20 writer/director Bernard Rose are Peter Shaffer and Milos=20 Forman, whose film about Mozart was called […]

The Government of National Unity is faced with a litmus test of its commitment to gender rights: whether to change existing abortion legislation for a “freedom of choice” Bill proposed by pro-choice activists, medical and legal An ad hoc parliamentary committee is considering submissions on abortion from all sectors of the community and the anti-choice […]

THERE was a generation that fought a principled fight against apartheid and is easily forgotten in the rush to bury the past. Yusuf Cachalia, a defiance campaign leader of the 1950s and long-time victim of an extremely long and harsh house arrest, died this week, 20 years to the day since the death of Bram […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin PATRICE CHEREAU’S Queen Margot begins with a wedding and=20 ends with a coronation. In between there is a lengthy and=20 operatic treatment of religious strife and the fall of a=20 If Wagner — Chereau staged The Ring at Bayreuth in the=20 1970s — and Visconti come to mind, the sources of the […]

The IMF has forecast a drop in South Africa’s growth rate=20 for this year, reports Reg Rumney International Monetary Fund economists have cut their=20 forecast for South Africa’s growth rate for the 1995=20 calendar year by half a percentage point because of=20 drought. This was revealed at a press seminar held in=20 Windhoek by the […]