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/ 29 September 1995

Money in the bank for the one day game

CRICKET: Jon Swift CRICKET is big business. You only have to weigh the R5- million Standard Bank are going to pour into the one- day game over the five years from the start of the 1996-97 season to gauge that. The massive sponsorship will back the national team in all one-day internationals in this country […]

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/ 29 September 1995

Community radio unfazed by SABC

Jack Rampou The SABC is competing with new community radio stations by providing regional language services countrywide. But community stations say they are not threatened and can compete effectively. SABC radio has created extra services for specific language groups by using transmitter splits in the different regions. For example, since July 3, both Radio Zulu […]

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/ 29 September 1995

Tender touch of young love

Theatre: Shaun de Waal Insofar as Beautiful Thing, at Cape Town’s Baxter Studio, resolves itself without undue trauma to the audience, it is a ”feel-good” production. We come to care about these working-class East-Enders. (Their accents, though, make one wonder whether this shouldn’t have been called Beautiful Fing.) Jonathan Harvey’s play tells the story of […]

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/ 29 September 1995

New parks board named

Eddie Koch The Cabinet this week appointed new members to the National Parks Board (NPB) in a move that will speed up conservation reforms designed to make the country’s game reserves more relevant to the needs of the rural The appointment of the new national conservation body, made at Cabinet’s meeting on Wednesday, is also […]

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/ 29 September 1995

De Klerk changes tune in W Cape demarcation row

Gaye Davis DEPUTY President FW De Klerk’s decision to back the Western Cape wing of his party in its stand on the demarcation dispute would have ”deep consequences for relations between the African National Congress and National Party and the government and the NP,” said Deputy Minister of Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development, Mohamed Valli […]

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/ 29 September 1995

Generals avoid justice as system struggles to cope

Communities are taking justice into their own hands as attorneys-general admit they cannot prosecute major cases. David Beresford and Rehana Rossouw report SOUTH AFRICANS expect instant justice — if a spate of burnings, stonings, shootings, whippings and vicious assaults perpetrated by communities against alleged criminals is anything to go by. And while vigilantes and communities […]

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/ 29 September 1995

Editorial The pencil is mightier than the sword

THE Conference of Editors was started some two decades ago as a bold attempt to bridge the gap between English and Afrikaans editors of mainstream newspapers. Its structures reflected that narrow goal, appropriate only to the strange politics of the time: in order to avoid conflict between these two disparate groups, it was a body […]

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/ 22 September 1995

Talking about tings an times

Dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson is back — this time with his band in tow. He spoke to ITUMELENG OA MAHABANE ‘IT feels good to be back,” Linton Kwesi Johnson says. He is not wearing his trademark hat. He doesn’t always wear the hat, he protests: “I am wearing a cap now.” The cap is […]

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/ 22 September 1995

Shaping guidelines for competition

Reg Rumney The shape of new competition policy is becoming clearer. Trade & Industry Minister Trevor Manuel in a speech last week revealed some of the proposals soon to be circulated in a draft Bill. Among the main objectives, said Manuel, were that: * The linkages between firms, be they through vertical integration, horizontal collusion […]

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/ 22 September 1995

SABC names heads of new TV channels

Justin Pearce Two scions of CCV-TV’s marketing department and one South African Broadcasting Corporation old-guarder are to head the SABC’s revised three-channel television line-up, which will take effect in February next year. Molefe Mokgatle will head Channel 1, Taninga Msimango will become acting head of Channel 2, and Louis Raubenheimer is to head Channel 3. […]