FRIDAY, 11.00AM MORE than half the sample in an informal email survey of South African emigrants to the United States said their quality of life and prospects had improved in the US. The survey, using a random sample of subscribers to Juluka, a newsletter for expatriates, found 80% had reported incomes above the median for […]

FRIDAY, 10.00AM: WORLD soccer governing body Fifa turned down the SA Department of Sports’ bid to financially assist Zaire. Zaire requested help from the South African Football Association earlier this week, asking for R1,1-million to help the team finish their World Cup qualification programme. Safa submitted a proposal to Fifa, but were told it would […]

THE response to the publication of Washington Post correspondent Keith Richburg’s book Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, which provides a dramatic depiction of the suffering and brutality of our continent, has been heated and acrimonious. Though this extract first appeared in the Post two years ago, the fury of the debate has […]

SUTTNER IN SWEDEN RAYMOND SUTTNER, chairman of parliament’s foriegn affairs committee and a vociferious proponent of an “ethical” foreign policy, has been appointed ambassador to Sweden. Sheila Sisulu, director of World Wide Africa Investment Holdings, has been appointed consul general to New York. MEYER MISSES MEETING MEYER-WATCHERS concerned with which way the National Party’s former […]

BRENDA ATKINSON reports on an art exhibition causing an ethical stir IN 1994, Marylin Zimmerman, a photography professor at an American state university, threw away a roll of film containing nude photographs she had taken of her three- year-old daughter in the bath. A cleaner discovered the film, turned it over to the university’s Department […]

Millions of people camped in informal settlements are transforming the country’s industrial heartland. Mungo Soggot and Tangeni Amupadhi report on the urban time bomb THEY often strike in the early hours of a cold winter’s morning. Groups of men armed with bags of chalk and a flag assemble on empty land. They mark out plots […]

The women played some strokes of genius but there were not many spectactors to witness them GOLF:Mark Lamport-Stokes LAST week’s South African women’s amateur golf championships at Killarney Golf Club highlighted two factors: this country possesses women golfers of a high quality but the sport still struggles to attract the galleries. Immaculate Killarney in Johannesburg […]

Anticipating International Museums Day on Sunday May 18, STEPHEN GRAY visits the African Window THE new African Window – part of a developing belt or mall of museums in downtown Pretoria – is the first suitable home there has ever been for that city’s vast Museum of Culture. Six exhibit spaces are already up, in […]

Three years have passed since the inception of the RDP. Two writers consider how it is faring today Hein Marais THE Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) debate has become a pantomime, a rehearsal of predictable affirmations and affectations, gripes and allegations. Issuing from the government comes the cheery mantra that the RDP remains the cornerstone […]

Employee share schemes offer much hope, yet signify very little in real terms for workers, writes Asghar Adelzadeh of the NIEP in the seventh of a series on economic policy EMPLOYEE Stock Ownership Plans (Esops) first rose to prominence in South Africa in 1987. After a blaze of publicity and debate, all was quiet until […]