increases Afrikaans Newspapers The latest circulation figures indicate once again an increase in the Afrikaans press — both dailies and weeklies — with Die Burger showing the highest increases (5,2%). In light of the political divisions among Afrikaans readers, this increase in Die Burger’s readership is particularly significant and says much about the beleaguered National […]

SOUTH AFRICA’S second annual Adult Learner’s Week will be celebrated from March 3 to 9, run by the National Literacy Co-operation (NLC). The NLC views Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) as a fundamental right of all our citizens, though only 1% of the country’s R32-billion education budget is spent on ABET. On February 20, […]

Multi-directorships are still a concern despite recent efforts to expand the field, reports Max Gebhardt Anglo American again leads the field with the largest number of multi-directorships, according to the latest information from McGregor’s Who Owns Whom for 1997. Michael King and Leslie Boyd from Anglo share top billing with 24 directorships each. Out of […]

Lynda Loxton The government has been urged to provide subsidised interest rates to carefully targeted small businesses and to allocate more funds to support this sector, which is seen as playing a vital role in easing South Africa’s high unemployment rate. The recommendation was made by the parliamentary trade and industry portfolio committee after a […]

David Bowie has introduced pop investment, but will others follow in his footsteps, asks Neil Spencer The days when David Bowie represented the cutting edge of modern pop may lie back in the Seventies, but the 50-year-old Bowie proved he’s still an innovative force in the business of music when he invented the pop star […]

Eddie Koch THE truth commission is discussing plans to subject staff to a security clearance test in a bid to prevent the leak of sensitive information. But some of the body’s 17 commissioners – a group which sits with chairman Desmond Tutu and his deputy, Alec Boraine, on its executive committee – have refused to […]

Mungo Soggot OLIVER HILL, the South African fugitive fighting extradition from his south London jail cell, has caught the attention of Minister of Justice Dullah Omar who has dispatched his special adviser Enver Daniels to personally oversee attempts to bring him back to South Africa. Omar has also sent a representative from the Transvaal Attorney […]

Stuart Hess THE crackdown on rate defaulters which triggered riots earlier this month in Johannesburg’s coloured suburbs is to restart next week. The decision – announced by the Southern Metropolitan Substructure (SMSS) – coincided with the launch of a commission of inquiry into the riots in Eldorado Park, Westbury and Reiger Park, which left four […]

Nineties 1991 World Cup quarter-final: October 19, Parc des Princes France 10 England 19 England were on France’s patch. The atmosphere was highly charged. “It was the most ferocious, brutal match I have played in,” wrote England hooker Brian Moore. “It was the reason I play the game. It was the ultimate feeling of being […]

In cutting university subsidies in the current manner, the ANC is reneging on its election promises, argues University of Natal philosophy professor Daniel Herwitz As an American academic recently arrived from California, I wish to speak out decisively against the funding formula put in place by the Ministry of Education this year. In the name […]