Expenditure was up in the last financial=20 year, but so was revenue. The government’s=20 target deficit of 5,1% will still be met,=20 reports Lynda Loxton THE government has revised expenditure in=20 the 1996/97 Budget by R3,4-billion to=20 R176,5-billion and is confident that it=20 will still achieve a deficit of 5,1%,=20 Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said […]

Julia Grey CHRISTA MEDERI has happy chickens. They have “a nice house”, where they come and go as they please, according to their own fowl habits. They are fed mainly on a diet of organically grown greens, freshly picked. These stress-free and healthy chickens produce eggs that have an extra yellow yolk and greater nutritional […]

M&G reporter JUDITH EDSTROM, the World Bank’s resident=20 representative in South Africa, is keen to=20 dispel fears surrounding the operations of=20 the institution in this country. In a=20 recent briefing to the South African=20 Institute for International Affairs, she=20 emphasised the partnership aspects. “The relationship between the bank and=20 South Africa has in many respects […]

GOLF:Jon Swift NICK PRICE has gone winless for 14 months. It is not the first time that he has gone through a barren spell as a professional golfer. But Price’s eventual elevation to the ranks of the major winners and the world’s No 1 spot were as much a token of his ability to accept […]

Charl Blignaut IT was probably a song like Jong Dames Dinamiek (referring to a young women’s cultural group established under National Party rule) that did it. So upset we re the censors in 1990 that they banned the album Die Saai Lewe (The Tedious L ife) by Randy Rambo en die Rough Riders – the […]

Structural adjustment policies are=20 interventionist and destructive, warns an=20 economist. Gwen Ansell reports AMID the soft-mouthed apologists for=20 structural adjustment policies – who=20 concede that its conditionalities may be=20 “too harsh” or its social safety nets “too=20 loose” – economist Michel Chossudowski is=20 refreshingly blunt.=20 The failures of structural adjustment, he=20 contends, have been masked […]

Middle-distance runners were dismayed at the samll number of events there were at which they could qualify for the world championships – but help is at hand ATHLETICS: Julian Drew WHEN Athletics South Africa (ASA) suspended all athletics activities in the Boland at the end of January the ramifications of its action hit home far […]

Panos Eliades took on Don King and the boxing establishment to get Lennox Lewis another shot at the world title. Roy Collins reports HE calls himself the Greek godfather. A fitting enough moniker for a man who has made a fortune liquidating people and, by way of a hobby, sending round his boys to bash […]

Molo Fish! is the most hyped SA TV drama of 1997. MARIAMcCLOY reports on the h ighs, lows and political breakthroughs of the production AT a time when some people are trying to bury South Africa’s murky past and op t for rainbow nation escapism, Molo Fish!, a 13-part series that debuted this week on […]

As Western consumers move toward natural foods, organic farming in South Africa is confined to small-scale believers and subsistence farmers Julia Grey THE Michael Mount Organic Market in Bryanston, Gauteng, features immaculate wooden stalls stocked with nature’s elixirs and healing stones, the soothing sounds of an acoustic guitar wafting over piles of purple aubergines and […]