The hospital in which patients died in the care of one of Zuma’s Cuban doctors is to be sued by Hendrina Fember, daughter of one of the victims, reports Mungo Soggot THE daughter of a patient who died in the care of the Pietersburg Hospital’s controversial Cuban anaesthetist is enraged at the cover-up of an […]
Mungo Soggot MINISTER of Justice, Dullah Omar, is considering a change in the Constitution to rein in hefty legal aid pay-outs and shield the state from a deluge of unaffordable claims. Omar floated the possibility in a letter this week to the parliamentary justice committee, which is investigating the struggling Legal Aid Board. The board […]
Hazel Friedman SOUTH AFRICAN art and culture can look forward to some of the whopping R68-million extra that has been allocated to art, culture, science and technology in the 1997/98 budget. But very little will reach arts and culture. This is due to an increase in the size of the administration budget and the growing […]
`decent death’ What do you do when a patient asks for `help at the end’? Bert Keizer gives his response THERE has always been a mad fringe around the euthanasia debate, which could make you forget that behind all the nonsense there must be the possibility of a sensible conversation about the subject. About a […]
Sanco is struggling to survive amid tensions between its socialist stalwarts and newborn capitalists,reports Mungo Soggot ONE of the bulwarks of the anti-apartheid struggle, the South African National Civics Organisation (Sanco), has virtually ground to a halt, crippled by debts of R1,5- million. A report read by former Sanco secretary general Penrose Ntlonti at the […]
A change of venue from Zaire to Togo is as good as a holiday for South Africa’s footballers, but they will have to work hard to get a good result SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi LET us start by separating fact from fiction. South Africa can defeat Zaire in the World Cup this weekend and fail to […]
The welfare minister insists new, leaner grants for poor children must be made for the sake of equality. But critics say she is robbing Peter to pay Paul. Marion Edmunds reports THE Cabinet may ram the government’s controversial child grant system through Parliament by proclamation, if there is not enough time to get a Bill […]
Fifties jazz stars, The Manhattan Brothers, are being reclaimed in a new documentary. GLYNISO’HARA recalls the days of King Kong and kwela MEETING and listening to musicians active before the rock’n’roll era is a pleasure rarely savoured in this country. Peter Rezant, the leader of the Merry Blackbirds, formed in 1929, and active into the […]
TV personality Saira Essa’s R1-million wedding has been slammed as a publicity stunt, reports SUZY BELL in this week’s Cultural Sushi column A WICKED quote doing the rounds in Durban: “Following Saira Essa around India is like being trapped in a cupboard with a postcard of the Taj Mahal.” The words come from a television […]
Despite the regular births of Siamese twins in South Africa, medical experts still can’t explain the syndrome, writes Rowan Callaghan THE birth of Siamese twins Monde and Nomonde last week seems yet another in a long list since Mpho and Mphonyane Mathibela first stole South African hearts some eight years ago. Reports of Siamese twins […]