Rowan Callaghan The membership of the Catering, Restaurant and Tearoom Association (Catra) may have changed over the last 76 years but the organisation still plays an integral part in issues facing members. The employee organisation was formed in the “good old days” when the genteel citizens of Johannesburg frequented tea-rooms and the more risque could […]

Pik Botha could be among those questioned by British =20 police when they arrive in South Africa to investigate =20 the bombing of ANC House, writes Marion Edmunds=20 BRITISH police will travel to South Africa next month =20 to question witnesses and suspects — including =20 “master” spy Craig Williamson — in the 1982 bombing […]

Lynda Loxton The South African wine industry is flourishing. Exports are booming and heavy rains in the Cape hold out promise of a good crop. The only fly in the ointment remains the antiquated system through which KWV continues to dominate the price farmers get for their wine. Distillers Corporation chairman Boetie van Zyl was […]

Mamphela Ramphele has trod a path from black =20 conciousness activist in the 1970s to the top of the =20 academic and corporate world in the 1990s. She is =20 tipped as the next vice-chancellor of the University of =20 Cape Town, sits on the board of Anglo American and =20 helps run the Nelson […]

Theatre: David Le Page Raiders of the Lost Count is a play play, so silly that one is astonished by the fact that one is watching what appear to be adults performing it and by the extent to which they have liberated child-like imaginations. It’s tremendously exhilarating watching actors having so much fun. It’s not […]

Athletics: Julian Drew THERE has in the past been considerable criticism of the way in which South Africa’s athletes have been prepared and selected for major championships. On Thursday a bold and positive plan was announced by the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (NOCSA) and Athletics South Africa (ASA) to prepare the athletics team […]

Guts and gore=20 * THE Democratic Party has been advertising itself for =20 the local elections as the party with ”the guts to =20 speak out”. The manne in the bar have been wondering =20 whether this has any connection to the DP candidate in =20 Brixton, Johannesburg, having the surname Gore.=20 But whatever idle […]

Politicians are fighting about the property clause in =20 the Bill of Rights — unnecessarily, argues Etienne =20 Mureinik =20 LAST week the draft Bill of Rights for the final =20 Constitution was debated in the Constitutional =20 Assembly. As it did when the Interim Constitution was =20 negotiated at Kempton Park, the property clause […]

Madiba’s speech to the UN could reflect well on South =20 Africa’s future, writes Peter Vale