Karen Harverson A ROW within the ranks of the black construction industry may damage its initiative to fund a developmental programme for emerging black contractors. The programme is aimed at helping black contractors acquire the skills necessary to participate in the mainstream construction industry. All contractors wishing to be part of the home building industry […]

CINEMA: Andrew Worsdale YOU can relax. Pierce Brosnan makes a fine James Bond in Martin Campbell’s GoldenEye, an otherwise disappointing foray into moviedom’s most successful franchise — 007. The story revolves around schemers and baddies in the post-Soviet world who are intent on worldwide cataclysm ( as usual ), and that’s the major problem with […]

Hazel Friedman ‘GOD has blessed us,” says single mother Mavis A year ago she was about to be dumped on the pavements. Today she and 434 tenants from seven buildings in the highrise slum of Hillbrow are home-owners through a unique scheme that could solve the inner city housing problem. Called the Seven Buildings Project […]

Bronwen Jones TEARS and righteousness make a potent mix in an angry young woman out to fight the wealth and might of big industry. Sitting atop a crumbledown dam looking over her community, Rene Smith, 21, adjusts blue rimmed spectacles and says: “We will not let them build their dam on our doorsteps. We will […]

Marion Edmunds SOUTH AFRICAN Broadcasting Corporation decision-makers are considering changing the course of SAfm and going for a niche market by targeting the new South African elite. The station has lost 25 percent of its advertising this year and, as reported last week, its audience is a paltry 250 000. A small team — headed […]

SOME staff members of the African Languages Department have expressed outrage at the way Makgoba handled their former acting head, Robert Herbert, an American academic. In a letter seen by the Mail & Guardian, Makgoba declined a request from Herbert for the renewed contract of one of his staff members, and then told Herbert that […]

Despite resistance from many influential Mozambicans, the project to settle Afrikaner farmers in Mozambique appears to be gathering favour. Marion Edmunds reports THE European Union (EU) has agreed to finance research into the viability of settling South African farmers in Mozambique and other African Funding for the research would come from EU funds earmarked for […]

Change doesn’t happen overnight, but Spoornet’s new managers are confident about the future, writes Gaye Davis ON the soccer field at the Vasco da Gama sports club in Parow, teams of men are competing in events involving buckets of water and sliding along lengths of black plastic while the smell of potjiekos and the sound […]

With lucrative contracts on offer, the temptation is great for Springbok players to switch to rugby league, especially those who weren’t in the World Cup squad RUGBY:Jon Swift THE Jacques Olivier affair has had the effect of making the mantle of world champions start to fray at the edges. In the wake of the 24-14 […]

The debate concerning state enterprises is in need of transformation, reports Meshack IF foreign investors were looking for dramatic statements on privatisation to emerge from the recent state enterprise restructuring bosberaad, they would have been disappointed. The government, under persistent pressure from some major stakeholders to take a definite stand, is adamant not to be […]