Fay Davids SOUTH AFRICA’S fastest-growing farmworkers’ union – the South African Agricultural Plantation and Allied Workers Union (Saapawu) – is meeting on Friday, February 21, in its first-ever congress. At the top of its agenda is a plan to counter the South African Agricultural Union’s (SAAU) lobby against the Security of Tenure Bill. Union representative […]

Stefaans Brmmer FLIGHT SA 232 from Johannesburg to London on February 6 1993, two months before Chris Hani was assassinated, had three passengers of note – the South African Communist Party leader himself; right-wing journalist Arthur Kemp, who was later arrested in connection with his murder; and Inkatha Freedom Party militarist Philip Powell. This “coincidence” […]

Lesley Cowling THE Agricultural Research Council wants to recruit the nation’s flies to help track down murderers. The council applied for R140 000 this week to study forensic entomology – the use of insects to investigate death, particularly of people whose bodies are found outdoors. It was pitching, along with other science councils, for a […]

With market sentiment on its side, now would be a good time for South Africa to act on exchange controls, a USeconomist tells Madeleine Wackernagel THE subject on everybody’s lips at this year’s Socit Gnrale Frankel Pollack investment conference was exchange controls. But the governor of the Reserve Bank wasn’t talking, and neither was the […]

An advocate disbarred for cheating is forgiven because of `extraordinary circumstances’ in the closing days of apartheid.Mungo Soggot reports THE Pretoria advocate who was disbarred for cheating former defence minister Magnus Malan by charging him exorbitant legal fees has been reinstated by a trio of Pretoria judges including Transvaal Judge President Frikkie Eloff – the […]

Zaire’s government and the rebels who have captured a large part of the country have agreed to talk peace in Cape Town, reports Chris McGreal PRESIDENT Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire has agreed to peace talks with the growing rebel army in the east after he secretly despatched a special envoy to seek South African […]

Marion Edmunds THE government wants to weed out traditional leaders who were placed in their communities by the old apartheid regime. The Department of Constitutional Development is planning an investigation into the background of South Africa’s nearly 800 royals, which would include tracing family trees to try to determine which leaders are legitimate and which […]

Grand Prix legend Jackie Stewart is ready to take a back seat in the pursuit of further honours MOTOR RACING:Adam Sweeting IN 1963, Ken Tyrrell received a life- changing phone call. “I was running what was then a Formula Junior team, before the name was changed to Formula Three, so I was always looking for […]

FINE ART: Suzy Bell HOW many white middle class males in their 50s living in a retirement village – “where no-one buys art” – are painting berry- brown, sherry-brown bodies to inspire a sensual dialogue in post-apartheid South Africa? Well, Terrence Patrick is one. This artist does not simply yearn for reconciliation but for a […]

Glynis O’Hara GALLO Africa Limited is talking to Tusk Records about a takeover. A buyout of Tusk would give Gallo the largest share of the music market in South Africa, says Johnathan Park of the Association of the South African Music Industry (Asami). “But we’re talking 0,5 to 2% here – not a huge lead, […]