Native tongue Bafana Khumalo IF ever there was a darkie with a serious identity problem, it’s got to be yours truly. For all my life I thought that I was black and I acted black. I always insisted on being called black, something which some of my liberal acquaintances were not comfortable with. You see, […]

NEUROLOGICAL disorders spotted among Unita soldiers in the late 1980s and described at a conference in Pretoria this week have given rise to suspicions that chemical weapons were used in the Angolan war. Dr Brian Davey told the first Africa regional seminar of the Chemical Weapons Convention that he had seen several patients after 1986 […]

The bond and capital markets still doubt the government’s ability to control its spending. Jacques Magliolo reports TRADERS in the bond or capital market remain pessimistic about the ability of the government to control inflation. This is the meaning of the continuing high interest rate of long-term bonds, the IOUs whose interest rate reflects expectations […]

Media & Marketing Clive Simpkins A DEBATE is on about whether Occidental, Eurocentric, dominantly Caucasian lifestyle and attitudinal trends have marketing relevance in Africa. The emerging answer would appear to be “sometimes” or “partially” but largely “not much”, other than at the top end of the socio-economic scale. In this country this is a miniscule […]

After severe disappointment at the Commonwealth Games, Okkert Brits has soared back to his best and is aiming even higher next year ATHLETICS: Paul Martin FROM shattering humiliation to glorious victory in the space of a fornight: it’s a Boys Own success story for the pole-vaulting African record-holder and now World Cup gold medallist Okkert […]

Richard Calland PRESSURE is growing within the Department of Foreign Affairs for the government to abandon its pro-Cuba policy. Specialist policy advisers at the department have advised that South Africa’s policy against the United States blockade of Cuba is likely to damage relations with the US and that a shift is “necessary” to avoid antagonising […]

Chris Louw THE Inkatha Freedom Party’s power base in kwaZulu/Natal is under serious threat following the disclosure of government plans to extend property rights to tribal land. In reply to a question in the senate this week, Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom revealed that plans are afoot to grant freehold title — including in the […]

A major symposium at this year’s South African International Film Festival will bring leading African filmmakers into contact with their local counterparts. William Pretorius reports HISTORY will be made at the “Across the Continent” symposium when, for the first time ever, filmmakers from all over Africa get together in South Africa. Hosted by the South […]

The Markets Jacques Magliolo AT last: excellent news for all those analysts who were retrenched between 1990 and 1992. This week’s announcement that United Kingdom stockbrokers James Capel is to acquire a 51 percent stake in local firm Simpson McKie hails the return of demand for Johannesburg Stock Exchange mining and industrial analysts. Following the […]

Arts Alive visiting pianist Jon Jang unites West and East in his music. He spoke to Gwen Ansell DUKE ELLINGTON, as usual, got there first with his Far East Suite in the mid-1960s. Since then, enough jazz musicians have looked East to staff a big band, from John Coltrane to John Zorn. United States West […]