Provincial governments may be on the verge of bypassing the IBA, reports Justin Pearce Provincial governments, furious at being sidelined by SABC television coverage, are planning to hit back at the Auckland Park monolith. Representatives of eight of the nine provinces met last month in Ulundi to discuss their unanimous concern that the SABC is […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift NOW this country has its one rugby side. And that side — or as many as Kitch Christie can substitute against Natal this Saturday — has one game. There are two schools of thought about what promises to be as hotly-contested an encounter as the President’s XV match against Western Province was […]

Business considers the March 15 Budget a resounding success, reports Reg Rumney Business response to the first Budget of the Government of National Unity was overwhelmingly positive. A survey of 100 of South Africa’s top business people, undertaken by the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (Case) just after the Budget of the GNU, shows almost […]

Anne Eveleth hit the deck with hundreds of others as bullets flew at Umlazi’s King Zwelithini Stadium on Monday The deadly crackle of gunfire punctured the air as tens of thousands of African National Congress and Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) supporters thronged the stands of Umlazi’s King Zwelithini Stadium for a Cosatu […]

THEATRE: Guy Willoughby THERE’S a certain sly satiric purpose behind Dylan Thomas’ poetic drama Under Milk Wood (first produced 1953); like the similarly folksy tales of Herman Charles Bosman, which date from the same period, Thomas’ detailed recreation of a little seaside village, Llaregyb, was not intended as soppy pastoral. There are all kinds of […]

Marketing Clive Simpkins GOING to the movies has always been a somewhat ritualistic event. Right from my childhood, going to Johannesburg’s Yeoville “bughouse”, as we used to call it, was a great adventure. Buying “coolies” (cool drinks) and noisily wrapped sweets was all part of the entertainment, as was being daring enough to rest your […]

Ann Eveleth ENGEN’S oil refineries are the biggest air polluters in the Durban South Industrial Basin, a Durban Water and Waste representative Niel MacLeod said this week. He told about 200 delegates at a workshop on pollution problems affecting residents of Austerville, Wentworth, Merebank, Isipingo,Lamontville and Umlazi, that Engen produces nearly 48 percent of sulphur […]

Furniture companies’ are beginning to shine on the stock exchange, reports Jacques Magliolo For the first time in five years, furniture companies are performing well on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange dispelling investor concerns that these companies are doomed never to resurface as players of note. Their return to prominence on the JSE board is a […]

Foreign affairs’ plans for the allocation of its budget took a bashing from MPs in Parliament, writes Gaye Davis MPs grilled Foreign Affairs Director General Rusty Evans this week, asking why his department’s R1,13-billion budget did not reflect South Africa’s new foreign policy goals. Figures presented by Evans to Parliament’s portfolio committee on foreign affairs […]