Gaye Davis JOHANNESBURG City Council is owed more than R44-million by residents of its south-western townships and Lenasia. If the debt is not written off by central government, it will almost double the council’s accumulated operating deficit of R54,7-million. Roger McCulloch, assistant general secretary of the Civic Associations of Johannesburg (CAJ), blames a National Party […]

ENGLAND and Wales are likely to make a joint bid to stage the 1999 World Cup. This week Dudley Wood, the Rugby Football Union secretary, said his union would be considering a formal bid along with the Welsh Rugby Union, though so far neither union has discussed the matter at executive committee level. Wood believes […]

Gambling’s main players revealed their hands this week, but they’ll have to wait for the referee to call the game. Stefaans Brummer reports WITH only a week left for submissions on the future of gambling, the main players are caught in a flurry of posturing and positioning to carve as large as possible a slice […]

Cosatu and the ANC are determined to stem the rising tide of xenophobia, reports Drew Forrest RESISTANCE to hardline Home Affairs Ministry policy on illegal immigration is crystallising in both the ANC and its trade union ally, the Congress of South African Trade Unions. This week Cosatu’s Neil Coleman hit out at “the narrow chauvinism” […]

Wiseman Khuzwayo STOCK exchange whizzkid Greg Blank, now serving time for fraud, will be treated the same as any other prisoner, says the Department of Correctional Services. Blank began serving his eight-year sentence last Saturday after exhausting his opportunities to appeal against it. But South Africa does not have US-style special prisons for “white collar” […]

CINEMA: Buddy Bradley QUO VADIS the action movie? Who among us has not posed this fundamental question on returning, sick at heart, from the local cineplex after enduring yet another actioner which seemed promising … but then totally sucked? This year’s roll of dishonour is already a long one, including stinkers like Beverly Hills Cop […]

THEATRE: Guy Willoughby Put together by its six creators for a frankly polemical purpose, Manje (“Now”) protests the harsh and sordid conditions that women in South African prisons have had to endure. If that sounds a rather daunting drawcard for an outing to the Civic Theatre, rest assured that this montage of mime, song, dialogue […]

In his first interview since the royal shake-up, Prince Mcwayizeni Zulu talks to Ann Eveleth THERE was an emotive ritual outside King Goodwill Zwelithini’s palace gates last Tuesday to mark his rapprochement with Senior Prince Mcwayizeni Zulu. “In accordance with tradition, we each stood outside the palace gates and a man poured fire ash into […]

Well-known figures have been blamed for the waste of millions of rands by the National Co-ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles, says a confidential report. Wiseman Khuzwayo reports A CONFIDENTIAL report on the disbanded National Co- ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles (NCCR) charges that the organisation was dogged by fraud and corruption […]