The health minister is on the campaign trail for her department, giving doctors a chance to harangue her in public. Pat Sidley reports A GATHERING in a huge auditorium at the Johannesburg Hospital last week probably marked the first time in South African history that health care professionals, many of them doctors, had a chance […]

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser A STUNNING performance of Benjamin Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge gave the South African tour of the London Philharmonic Orchestra a flying start at the Johannesbiurg City Hall this week. The Variations, one of Britten’s early creations for string orchestra, was a perfect choice for the LPO strings […]

Gavin Evans and Stefaans Brummer SOUTH african National Defence Force military intelligence is still interested in bugging its enemies, although these days it prefers to call them This much emerged from a “feeling out” session monitored by the Weekly Mail & Guardian, between a Wits student “spotted” by an SANDF talent scout, and a senior […]

Scope: All workers, whether engaged in the private or=20 public sector — with the exception of members of the=20 police, intelligence services and defence force –=20 covered by a single Act. Bargaining councils: Collective bargaining over wages=20 and working conditions between representative unions=20 and employer bodies promoted at bargaining councils. No=20 duty to bargain but […]

Students at Unisa are being taught old-style=20 Verwoerdian values, reports Pat Sidley `THERE ought to be a single education department for=20 all education on the central level. Differentiation=20 should only be introduced on the next level through the=20 creation of four education departments for the four=20 main population groups. “For education to take place, the […]

Justin Pearce in Cape Town ASSASSINATIONS in squatter camps and high-handed=20 manoeuvrings by an Eastern Cape MEC: these two=20 occurrences in the Western Cape in the past week have=20 more in common than meets the eye. Both threaten the process of local government=20 transformation, but in a way that may not be obvious:=20 the National […]

FINE ART: Ivor Powell I AM assured that it is coincidental, or maybe serendipitous, that Geoffrey Armstrong’s exhibition The Tree should have opened at the Newtown Galleries within a week of Edoardo Villa’s Trees at the Goodman Galley. Nor is it hard to believe that this is the case: beyond the accident of the title, […]

The old laager mentality is raising its ugly head again=20 in the form of xenophobia. Eddie Koch and=20 Accadoga Chiledi report SOUTH Africa’s landscape is littered with bronze and=20 stone statues of ox-wagons drawn into a circle to=20 defend those on the inside from a marauding band on the=20 outside. There is no need to […]

Critical Consumer Pat Sidley A PROPOSED new health care system, one of the ANC’s key=20 election promises, is the topic of hot debate at the=20 moment almost everywhere that counts: within the ANC,=20 the government of national unity, parliament, various=20 think tanks on health policy, the Department of Health=20 and among all health care professionals. […]

Being named Female Prospect of the Year is just the beginning for young sprinter Heide Seyerling ATHLETICS: Julian Drew THE organisers of the 1992 Engen Powerplus Summer Series faced something of a quandry when it came to the second meeting of the series to inaugurate the new synthetic track at Jan Smuts Stadium in East […]