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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Jacques Magliolo THIS week saw a communication problem evolve at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. A press release was sent to stockbroking members and to the press, stating that a “plan and timetable for the restructuring of the JSE to meet the changing needs of South Africa” was published in August 1994. The purpose of the […]

BY replaying his pre-election game of brinkmanship, IFP=20 leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi appears set to wage a=20 fierce campaign to win local government elections in=20 kwaZulu/Natal and ring concessions from the African=20 National Congress (ANC) in the Constitutional Assembly=20 Buthelezi has clearly kept the initiative over a lame- duck ANC in kwaZulu/Natal by announcing plans to […]

Reg Rumney looks at the latest row about how official inflation is measured Once again the official inflation figure supplied by the government’s Central Statistical Services has been called into question. Cosatu said this week a study by the union-aligned research group Naledi confirmed its suspicions that the official inflation figure is inaccurate. The CSS […]

Insurance agents who prey on the ignorance of rural=20 clients are wasting huge amounts of public savings,=20 writes Jimmy Roth IN the last six months of 1994 the Grahamstown Black=20 Sash Advice office assisted 157 rural people with their=20 insurance policies. In the vast majority of cases,=20 agents misrepresented the nature of the policy to=20 […]

For new National Commissioner of Police George Fivaz,=20 dealing with the past involves a retreat to the future.=20 He spoke to Mark Gevisser=20 IN private circles, George Fivaz likes to tell the=20 following story: when he was a young policeman and a=20 post in the Security Police was considered a sharp=20 career move, he applied […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin THE opening shot of a lake and mountains in Lee Tamahori’s Once Were Warriors is seminal. Throughout the film it sticks in the memory as an image of a once tranquil world that has been lost. Within a space of a few seconds, the camera tracks back to reveal crowded streets and […]