Media and marketing Clive Simpkins THE frequent dissonance between corporate advertising and coal-face contact with an organisation is fascinating. Pretoria, over several months last year, ran a series of press ads designed to woo and seduce the sceptical into accepting it as the home of our Tutu-esque rainbow nation parliament. The campaign extolled the virtues […]

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 […]

OVER the next few weeks, experts will debate the=20 details of the new Labour Relations Act, a draft of=20 which was published this week. This fine-tuning should=20 not detract from the central import of the document.=20 At one level, it is a technical feat to produce so=20 quickly such a comprehensive Bill that deals with […]

Amid the scar tissue of District Six, a new museum is helping to heal its ravaged community. Tony Morphet reports THE buzz around the museums and galleries gets louder all the time. Like a beehive after a long winter, the political spring has suddenly brought a lot of fresh activity. New collections, exhibitions, policies, even […]

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 […]

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 […]

A Zairean businessman has caused a storm=20 with his Berea-based communication network, reports=20 Annie Mapoma AN enterprising Zairean businessman has set up a=20 communication network in a Berea house to connect=20 expatriates to friends, family and businesses back=20 Zaireans are flocking to the offices of Full Business=20 Services, at 87 Honey Street, for fast, cheap=20 […]

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, […]