Ann Eveleth=20 Inkatha Freedom Party hardliners this week=20 succeeded in uniting the KwaZulu-Natal opposition=20 against their increasingly divided party.=20 Apparently straining under the weight of a=20 democracy which would have forced them to negotiate=20 a provincial constitution, the party’s hardline=20 cabal of national leaders wilfully burned its=20 bridges with the minority parties whose support is=20 […]
They’re black, they’re pretty small and they believe they can beat the best teams in the Premier Basketball League BASKETBALL: Rowan Callaghan IT IS early evening and the End Street basketball courts are still drenched in sunlight and the usual sounds of the playground can be heard above the traffic. A small noise can be […]
Columbus Stainless looks to Maputo harbour as a possible solution to the crippling transport costs in South Africa, reports Karen Harverson Stainless steel producer Columbus Stainless is investigating the possibility of exporting product through Maputo harbour in Mozambique rather than through Durban because transport costs are so high. “We need the shortest route between Columbus […]
The unequal racial balance in South Africa’s=20 justice system makes it quite possible that race=20 becomes a feature of South African trials as it did=20 in the OJ Simpson circus, writes Justin Pearce=20 COULD South Africa have its own version of the OJ=20 Simpson trial? The tensions that shifted the focus=20 of the Simpson case […]
Karen Harverson Columbus Stainless is sceptical of carbon steel producer Iscor’s R100-million plan to convert its Pretoria works into a stainless steel facility for the production of slab and black coil. “While I believe Iscor had little option but to close the operation which wasn’t efficient as a carbon steel facility, or do something different […]
Charles Nupen=20 Appearance: New mannish. The kind of guy to have=20 around the house — he’d never complain when it was=20 his turn to take out the garbage.=20 Present occupation: In between mediating the=20 municipal strike he hopefully did his bit to ferry=20 the family’s uncollected rotting rubbish down to=20 the dump like the rest […]
Rehana Rossouw=20 WHEN Chris Ball was Barclays Bank managing director=20 in the 198Os, he became the victim of a bizarre=20 witch-hunt where National Party commie-spotters=20 pronounced they had found a bunny resembling an=20 African National Congress symbol in the bank’s tree=20 Coupled with numerous accounts the bank attracted=20 from anti-apartheid groups, “evidence” surely=20 mounted that […]
Artists are teaming up with designers for the Johannesburg Art Gallery’s Spring Fashion Show. HAZEL FRIEDMAN takes a peek behind the seams THE Friends of the Johannesburg Art Gallery can’t be accused of timidity. In fact, in their efforts to turn art into entertainment, they sometimes walk recklessly where purists fear to tread. A few […]
Marion Edmunds and Lungile Madywabe=20 Tim Singiswa, Hillbrow’s homeless candidate, has=20 nothing to lose by standing for the local=20 government elections in Hillbrow – he is homeless,=20 disabled, has no job or material possessions, save=20 three or four pens and some grubby certificates.=20 What he does have is self-confidence, ambition,=20 grand plans and a glib […]
Supporting ‘smart’ mines ignores the international=20 landmine crisis, writes David Bruce=20 IT WAS a shock for the Ceasefire Campaign to hear=20 last week that the government had decided to=20 implement a ban on “dumb” or “long-life” mines=20 while adopting a position of support for the use of=20 “smart” or “short-life” mines.=20 While all landmines are […]