Justin Pearce AIDS is the linking theme among the 70 films which have been brought together for a festival starting in Cape Town tonight — and they range from Aids — Life at Stake (a Kenyan Jim-goes-to-Nairobi tale about a migrant worker who contracts HIV in the city) to Safe is Desire (“learn how to […]
Eastern Cape Premier Raymond Mhlaba sent an uncompromising signal to civil servants throughout the country last weekend, reports Steuart Wright THE quelling of a police strike in Transkei at the weekend is the first decisive step the government has taken to bring the troubled former homeland to heel. The siege of Umtata by about 200 […]
The unbundling of Johannesburg Consolidated investments has been a damp squib. Reg Rumney reports The unbundling of Johannesburg Consolidated Investments into three, separate and more focused companies has been received with little enthusiasm. It was announced this week that JCI would be split into three separately listed companies on May 15: * Anglo American Platinum […]
Sources say the IFP has no alternative but to quit the government of national unity and form a vocal backbench opposition. Weekly Mail & Guardian Reporter THE Inkatha Freedom Party is likely to pull out of the Government of National Unity but return to parliament before the expiry of the 15-day deadline that could see […]
The victims of landmines are usually the innocent — women and children. A plea has gone out, calling on African countries to prohibit these stealthy weapons, reports Annie Mapoma AFRICAN countries this week face mounting pressure to sign a treaty on the ban of landmines. The International Committee of the Red Cross, the Organisation for […]
Bulelwa Payi in Grahamstown IT’S back to square one for Rhodes University in its search for a vice-chancellor. When the university council met on Thursday, it was to be asked to reconstitute the selection process for the vice- chancellor, said a source who asked not to be named. A senate meeting held on Wednesday “unanimously” […]
SOCCER: Clinton Asary WHEN the 24th BP Top 8 final kicks off on Saturday afternoon there will be two contrasting eras in South African soccer on view. Wits defender Peter Gordon (31), in the twilight of a distinguished career that has spanned 11 years of professional soccer, 10 of them at Wits, might well be […]
Dr Olive Shisana, special adviser to the minister of health, discusses the reasons behind the parlous state of health services — and the way forward THE health status of the majority of South Africans remains poor, and the distribution of death and disability reflects the inequities of the past. In 1992, the number of children […]
# What about coloured fears, Mr President? THE ANC has failed to heed the concerns raised by activists from the coloured community. These concerns centre around the continued marginalisation of the community and access to resources. Fears around affirmative action are not taken seriously, yet the ANC has bent over backwards to address white fears […]
South African institutions and stockbrokers say * ocal trading is too small to suffer a Barings Bank-style collapse, reports Jacques Magliolo The collapse of Britain’s 300-year-old Barings Bank has reverberated around the world and forced local institutions and stockbrokers to reassess their own security systems and prevention mechanisms. The announcement that Nick Leeson, a Singapore-based […]