Alexander Sudheim A WELCOME change of location from the formal feel of last year’s event at the Natal Playhouse, the BAT Centre in Durban proved an inspired choice for the 1996 JPS Jazz Festival. At least 1 000 people visited on each of the three days to take in the likes of Bayete, Johnny Fourie, […]
Mungo Soggot FOR a member of the Free Market Foundation, Transnet chairman Louise Tager’s anti-privatisation stance is surprising. A glance at Tager’s curriculum vitae, supplied by Transnet, shows she has been a member of the Free Market Foundation since 1990, a trustee of the Don Caldwell Trust — another pro-privatisation group — since 1992, and […]
Parks board chair Enos Mabuza is being investigated for a farm which he bought for R6 000 and mortgaged for almost R500 000, reports Justin Arenstein RESPECTED National Parks Board chairman and former homeland leader Dr Enos Mabuza bought a farm for R6 000 from the government under allegedly irregular conditions in 1991, and mortgaged […]
Stefaans BrUmmer QUESTIONS are being asked about a foray to a plush Johannesburg shopping centre by ex-security police captain Michael Bellingan, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for the brutal murder of his wife. Bellingan — who was heavily involved in “dirty tricks” against, among others, the National Union of Metalworkers during his career […]
Dan Atkinson in London Gathering storm clouds overshadowed bumper half-year profits from diamond conglomerate De Beers this week. The sliding value of the rand and renewed uncertainty over a critical trade deal with the Russian government, combined to cast doubt on the survival of the company’s worldwide marketing cartel. Director Gary Ralfe said two weeks […]
A photograph of an award-winning artwork designed to provoke debate about the status of women has caused the deputy speaker to call for art censorship, reports Hazel Friedman The deputy speaker of the National Assembly, Baleka Kgositsile, has stirred up furious controversy in the art community with an attack on the Mail & Guardian for […]
With the government unlikely to increase subsidies for tertiary education in the next 10 years, a large-scale student-aid fund is desperately needed, argues Philippa Garson SERIOUS problems lie ahead for the higher education sector if student fees continue to rocket in the absence of a viable student loan scheme. While the sector is set to […]
Discriminatory pension laws that exclude permanent residents may compromise their human rights, reports Marion Edmunds Permanent residents no longer qualify for state pensions or social assistance grants, following the implementation on March 1 of the Social Assistance Act, drafted and passed by the National Party government. And the Black Sash says it will take this […]
A leading member of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) claims his organisation has been sidetracked by militant activists and fears it will falter in the coming weeks. The member, who asked not to be named but who said he intended raising his misgivings within the organisation, said unless Pagad reverted to its original form […]
If there was ever an occasion to give thanks that we have a Bill of Rights it was on Tuesday when The Star published an attack on the Mail & Guardian by the deputy speaker of the National Assembly, Baleka Kgositsile, under the headline: ”Poor taste must not pose as art.” The article was confused, […]