MALU VAN LEEUWEN arrived at the INXS concert in Cape Town a sceptic. She left the stadium a fan WHEN Michael Hutchence eases into the VIP hospitality area for the media “meet and greet” he’s powdered from temple to toe: Abba-blue eyeshadow, baby-blue checked flares, royal-blue buckled dandy shoes. So, Michael, how much easy listening […]
grips with distance learning in SA Mail & Guardian Reporter IT takes a special sort of student to survive the rigours of distance learning. There’s no spoon-feeding here, no personal support: one survives or fails on one’s own. “For most of us, distance learning is an adjunct, a supplement, to what we get face to […]
Last Sunday SA’s advertising fraternity held its annual back-patting orgy. We report on the 1997 Loerie Awards Irwin Manoim NO one danced naked on the tables at the Loerie awards banquet at Sun City. The tables were so over-full with over- decorated food, over-decorated flowers, over-decorated decorations, that no space was available for the pitter […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM BUSINESS confidence took a knock in May following the slowdown in gross domestic product growth in the first quarter. The SA Chamber of Business business confidence index fell 0,2 percentage points to 113,8 last month, its first drop following four consecutive months of increases. Sacob economic policy director Ben van Rensburg said Sacob […]
disaster Widows of the Vaal Reefs mine locomotive accident are destitute despite compensation, reports Ferial Haffajee THE National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is to claim additional compensation from Anglo American for the families of miners who died in the Vaal Reefs disaster. If successful, the multi-million-rand claim must be paid out by Rand Mutual, the […]
Anthony Kunda in Lusaka A witness this week told the Zambian Supreme Court that presidential security personnel threatened to shoot her if she told anyone she had known President Frederick Chiluba by a different name 30 years ago. Anna Chilekwa, a 52-year-old widow, told the court she was driven from Lusaka to Luanshya by Simon […]
Analysts believe the new shareholding structure is a blow for black economic empowerment at JCI, reports Madeleine Wackernagel THE country’s biggest black economic empowerment initiative is turning sour, say industry analysts. The confusion surrounding JCI’s new shareholding structure is a deliberate attempt at masking the fact that real control of JCI is still largely in […]
Nigel Williamson in London LOUD, arrogant and high on Ecstasy, British clubbers are exploiting poor communities, wrecking the environment and terrifying locals. They’ve done Spain, India and Thailand – now they’re heading for Cape Town. Indian police have issued an uncompromising warning that young British music fans planning to join all-night parties on the beaches […]
The government’s growth strategy envisages substantial job creation but without drastic intervention the unemployment problem will not be overcome, writes Asghar Adelzadeh of the NIEP in the last in the series of articles on economic policy TWO questions are fundamental to overcoming the problems of high unemployment and poverty: what are the main macro-economic and […]
streets The Ministry of Defence has been asked to stop cutting jobs, reports Rehana Rossouw PARLIAMENT has asked the Ministry of Defence to freeze its job-cutting until plans are in place to prevent thousands of unemployed troops being forced on to the streets and into crime. The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has already […]