Centurion’s NP council believes it is=20 creating affordable housing, but the ANC=20 says it is separate development, writes=20 Stuart Hess TO the council of Centurion, the=20 development they are planning on 30=20 hectares of vacant land outside city limits=20 is a gesture to the new South Africa,=20 affordable housing for the increasing=20 numbers of squatters […]

Composer BONGANI NDODANA explains why he=20 chose a criminal as the hero in his new=20 opera, Broken String VILLAINS have always been the stuff of=20 opera. From the tormented Don Giovanni,=20 whom we are glad to see dragged down into=20 the portals of hell, through to the almost=20 parodic Peter Grimes, awkward and=20 misunderstood, evoking […]

Greater control over Virodene is behind the=20 premature interest of the Cabinet in the=20 Aids drug, writes Marion Edmunds =20 THE government is eyeing a direct financial=20 stake in “Aids wonder drug” Virodene to=20 guarantee it a say in its development,=20 production and sales. Cabinet insiders told the Mail & Guardian=20 this week that it […]

fizz David Gow and Dominic Walsh PEPSICO has decided that it is time to act on the American catchphrase – “food to go”. Last week the company, maker of the world’s second most popular fizzy drink, announced that it planned to dump its poorly performing restaurant business, which includes the KFC and Taco Bell chains, […]

Max Gebhardt LAST year’s crash in the rand helped South Africa’s mining houses to report higher returns in the final quarter of 1996, but unless there is a marked improvement in the gold price, the mines could face another round of retrenchments and downsizing. While the latest round of quarterly results were in line with […]

Ruaridh Nicoll in Luanda=20 AT dawn, in a hangar at Luanda’s airport,=20 blue-beret troops of the largest United=20 Nations peacekeeping mission in the world=20 stand in the rising heat. Each of them knows that the UN’s mission in=20 Angola officially finishes at the end of=20 February, but they do not expect to go=20 home. Instead […]

Colin Bundy A LION AMONGST THE CATTLE: RECONSTRUCTION=20 AND RESISTANCE IN THE NORTHERN TRANSVAAL by=20 Peter Delius (Ravan, R89,95) AT the heart of this book (writes Peter=20 Delius) “is an account of two rebellions=20 less than 30 years apart”. Twice in three=20 decades, the Pedi “reserve” in the Northern=20 Transvaal was convulsed by protests against=20 […]

Iden Wetherell reports on the political=20 crisis facing Zimbabwe’s tourism industry ZIMBABWE’S National Parks Department, due=20 to host a summit of the Convention on=20 International Trade in Endangered Species=20 (Cites) in Harare in June, is facing a=20 leadership crisis which has badly dented=20 its reputation as one of Africa’s most=20 effective wildlife managers. The department […]

Chris McGreal in Kigali ZAIRE’S ragged army has claimed the first=20 victory of its long-awaited counter- offensive against Rwandan-backed rebels,=20 saying it has taken a town it has never=20 admitted to losing in the first place. Within a few days of launching its “total=20 and devastating” attack last week against=20 the guerrilla Alliance of Democratic […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy SABC board member Allister Sparks is seeking business from the corporation for his Johannesburg-based Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ). Sparks this week confirmed that he has submitted a proposal to the SABC offering to train radio and television journalists at the IAJ’s plush Parktown offices. Sparks says there is no conflict […]