An activist who campaigned for rent boycotts during the apartheid years now uses the same tactics to persuade people to pay for services, reports Gaye Davis AS a young activist, Chris Ngcobo used to go door to door persuading Soweto residents to boycott rent and service payments. That was in the late 1980s, when the […]
RUGBY: Luke Alfred GLADWELL MAJALIMA and I are sitting next to each other watching the members of his club practising against a distant backdrop of fir and eucalyptus trees. It is the last day of February and the first chill of winter is in the air. We could be in southern Scotland or parts of […]
Analysis: Anton Harber AN Inkatha Freedom Party decision to quit the Government of National Unity will set the scene for a period of intense conflict between the central government and kwaZulu/Natal. The IFP agenda is clear and has been expressed by senior leaders: to cement their provincial base and launch a strong push for regional […]
THERE is a common belief that the ANC’s fiery four — Winnie Mandela, Bantu Holomisa, Peter Mokaba and Rocky Malebane-Metsing — are too powerful and too popular among the grassroots for the party to deal with them firmly and adequately. This is a myth that needs to be Most of the power and influence of […]
Late bloomer: Bungu can add to belated acclaim against BOXING: Gavin Evans VUYANI “The Beast” Bungu is a young man who was groomed to be one of life’s worthy supporting acts, and yet has somehow risen to the foothills of fame, fortune and more than a dollup of mass acclaim. Of all South Africa’s boxing […]
Lewis Machipisa in Harare Zimbabwe’s four-year-old economic structural adjustment programme (Esap) has failed to meet its key targets, despite strides to implement the austere measures, says a report by a leading Zimbabwean bank. According to the strategic planning division of Standard Chartered Bank, the government has not been able to check its extravagant spending, money […]
Steuart Wright in East London FORESTRY officials are racing against the clock to find a mate for the sole surviving elephant of the world- famous herd which roamed the Knysna forest at the turn of the century. Trouble is, they’re not sure of the sex of the Three young Kruger National Park cows were relocated […]
Critical Consumer Pat Sidley WHAT’S in a name? Anybody who was at The Rolling Stones’ concerts last weekend would know the answer. There was all the ”official, authorised” memorabilia, inlcuding the copyrighted name of the Stones. There were the concertgoers who wore jeans carrying the familiar back-pocket red label of Levi’s. Yet, like the ”genuine […]
Avzal Simons is facing only one of the 11 ‘Station Strangler’ charges. Justin Pearce reports IT will take a lot to keep Lorraine Solomon away from the Cape Supreme Court in the next few weeks. Likewise Kathleen Samaai. Likewise Mary and Louise van Rooyen. Likewise most of the 40 or so other people who this […]
Philip Mohr In preparation for a trip to Cape Town I telephoned the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and was surprised to find that their million rand computer systems could not provide certain basic details on listed companies. For instance, how many listed companies are based in the Western Cape and what value of the total market […]