Tokyo Sexwale, Gauteng premier, argues that the ANC must face up to the challenge of power OPENING the inaugural meeting of the South African Native National Congress (later the ANC) in 1912, congressman Pixley ka Seme said: “We are gathered here today to discuss a thing which my colleagues and I have decided to place […]

Farouk Chothia: Durban KWAZULU/NATAL chiefs have received an increased stipend since April in what appears to be a move on the Inkatha Freedom Party’s part to retain their loyalty in the post- election era, it emerged this week. This disclosure comes amid further signs that Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini is battling to prise chiefs — […]

FINE ART: Ivor Powell A COUPLE of weeks ago I had some things that were not exactly brimming with goodwill to say about the kind of art exhibitions one encounters in the Christmas season. Well, it turns out I have to eat my words before I get to eat my turkey or brandy pudding. Anything […]

Bruce Cohen A MASSIVE European Union (EU) development package for South Africa — R500-million in 1995 — is currently being finalised in Brussels. It will bring much-needed relief to many NGOs which have been staggering through a funding crisis since the April election. NGOs, however, will have to get used to sharing the EU funding […]

Hardliners in the IFP are planning to quit government and strengthen their majority in kwaZulu/Natal, writes Farouk Chothia A SPECIAL Inkatha Freedom Party conference early next year will consider a plan by party hardliners to quit the government of national unity (GNU) and play the role of a Westminster-styled opposition party, IFP insiders revealed this […]

A new health scheme favoured by the government is likely to prove hugely popular. Pat Sidley reports THE government is actively investigating a national health insurance plan which would, if implemented, revolutionise the country’s health system and provide the funds for basic health care to all citizens. Three options are under consideration. The Weekly Mail […]

Has the Big Top got smaller, or have we just got bigger? Mark Gevisser took a nostalgic trip to the circus `IT’S just not what it used to be,” said a man, an unimpressed toddler in the crook of each arm, as he left the tatty confines of the rather modest Little Top that is […]

GOLF: Neil Manthorp MORAL outrage and righteous indignation so often accompany our very own Million Dollar Challenge at Sun City every year that we ought to be used to it by now. The trouble is, immediately after the gluttonous mountain of cash in the impoverished former Bophuthatswana, we then have to try and swallow the […]

Star editor Richard Steyn was dismissed in what was an early shot of a new newspaper war. By Weekly Mail Reporters ATHOUGH there has been a furore centred on the ”resignation” of The Star editor-in-chief Richard Steyn, he was in fact fired. Sources close to Argus management say that Steyn was summoned by Argus Newspapers […]