ATHLETICS: Jon Swift THERE are times in South African sport when you wonder whether the word “development” does not have the Orwellian connotation of separate but equal. The All African Invitational athletic meeting to open the magnificently appointed new Johannesburg Stad-ium last weekend was just such an occasion. A surprisingly sparse crowd had come on […]

Gaye Davis WHEN Idasa launched its national survey of parliamentarians, the reaction was immediate — and largely allergic. But, while some MPs and senators fumed and balked, others quietly set about filling in replies to the 161 questions. Those coming up trumps in the transparency stakes so far include such notables as Minister of Posts […]

Citytv’s Nick Taylor wants to see communities involved in regional stations, writes Neil Beerbaum Nick Taylor has a show in his mind which illustrates what regional television can be about: “There is a man in Guguletu who makes washing powder in his garage over the weekends. He believes it washes faster and whiter than other […]

Evita Bezuidenhout Appearance: Marike de Klerk on speed. Dress sense: Barbara Cartland on safari. All faux leopard-skin tights, diamonds and furs. Obviously a woman’s woman. Who are her role models? Sophia Loren, Joan Collins, Mimi Coertse and Dame Edna Anything that makes her special? She has the best legs. What’s she up to now? Burying […]

Marion Edmunds South African Broadcasting Corporation Radio Chief Govin Reddy is fighting shy of releasing a foreign consultant’s report critical of the way change has been managed at the SABC’s controversy-ridden English- language radio station SAfm. Reddy wants to keep an Australian-funded report, which criticises change management at SAfm over the last year, confidential until […]

How do we see ourselves in our fledgling democracy? NEVILLE DUBOW looks at the SA National Gallery’s exhibition of People’s Portraits PEOPLE’S Portraits — a photographic project sponsored by the South African National Gallery and the Mail & Guardian — carried the following guidelines: “Entrants have complete freedom to express the spirit of humanity in […]

A health and safety centre has been closed after one of its employees developed lung cancer, reports Eddie Koch A health and safety centre that has played a major role in highlighting the dangers of asbestos has been shut down by the government — because it failed to report that one of its workers was […]

Rehana Rossouw NEIGHBOURS of Cape Town gangster killer Harry Joshua believe his crime was not that heinous: he was only cleaning up a little. “He was just ridding the area of some of the vermin,” was one of the descriptions of Joshua’s shooting spree last May which left five young men dead and two wounded, […]

Marion Edmunds NATIONAL Party leader Deputy President FW de Klerk is to spend as little time as possible in a suit in the run-up to the local government elections, possibly hoping to match President Nelson Mandela’s casual shirts with a range of his own. Sources in the NP say they are doing their best to […]

Rowan Callaghan Negotiations between the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC) have gone largely unnoticed until a deadlock in talks caused the corporation’s annual general meeting (AGM) to be re-scheduled last week. The SBDC has long been a target of criticism by particularly small black business, who have […]