The whites of the old Rhodesia used to take particular pride in the heroic= saga of the Shangane river patrol =D1 a police detachment which was=20 surrounded and massacred by the Matabele impis of Lobengula, singing=20 God Save the Queen as they died.=20 Some years ago, a historian created a furious controversy when he=20 suggested […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift WITH the wraps off the England tour party, the immediate reaction is to=20 contemplate a summer of speed. Allan Donald and Fanie de Villiers,=20 maybe even Brett Schultz, spearheading the South Africans. Devon=20 Malcolm, Darren Gough and Dominic Cork at the sharp end of England=D5s=20 six-man seam attack. Perhaps though this is […]

Part museum, part holiday resort, Lesedi Cultural Village offers a =D4Real= African Experience=D5. JUSTIN PEARCE asks: What=D5s wrong with=20 THE American tourists are in traditional dress: golf shirts and polyester= slacks. Looking quietly excited and a touch apprehensive, they meet Xolani= Dludla, their guide, at the reception area of Lesedi Cultural Village and= follow him […]

An inability to communicate their grievances lies behind the nurses=D5 stri= reports Pat Sidley Florence Nightingale died at Baragwanath Hospital this week, after a long= struggle against apartheid medicine and wages, and a terminal dose of=20 broken promises. A striking nurse shovelled soil onto the coffin when she told a radio=20 interviewer that Nightingale =D2had […]

Philippa Garson EVERY day, thousands of children rise before daybreak to begin an=20 arduous working day. Whether it is on farms, in coalyards, on streets=20 selling newspapers, hawking vegetables or prostituting, children are=20 labouring all over the country. The occasional case of abuse of working children may reach the media, but= for the most, the […]

Reg Rumney South African textile exports last year surged by around 31 percent,=20 compared to calendar 1993, to R1,5-billion. Nonetheless, as the Textile Federation=D5s August 1995 Textile Watch=20 comments, textile export statistics are a microcosm of what is wrong with= South Africa=D5s foreign trade. Textile exports remain mostly commodity- based and, therefore, vulnerable to volatile […]

Brigadier Roland de Vries and Colonel Solly Mollo in The Mark Gevisser=20 Colonel Rocky Williams, an Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) commander now=20 at the defence secretariat, remembers how officers from MK and the South=20 African Defence Force bonded, courtesy of Charles Glass, round the=20 braaivleis fire. An MK guy would look at his watch and […]

Shaun de Waal AT the James Phillips Memorial Concert at Mega Music in Johannesburg=20 this weekend, you will be able to hear a wide variety of bands paying=20 tribute to the late songwriter and bandleader; you will also be able to=20 contribute to the Sunny Skies Trust =D1 raising money to cover medical bill= =D1 […]

Marion Edmunds =D4NO comment,=D3 was the response from Auditor General Henri Kleuver =20 and the chair of the Parliamentary Portfolio Finance Committee, ANC MP=20 Gill Marcus, this week when asked if they had faith in the financial=20 management of those provincial governments which have inherited bits=20 and pieces from the former TBVC states.=20 The Democratic […]

Last week=D5s IBA report could lead to the closure of Bop Broadcasting=20 services, writes Neil Bierbaum Bop Broadcasting Corporation is to lose its television and radio services a= a result of the Independent Broadcasting Authority report. BopBC=D5s=20 television and radio services will be closed if the IBA=D5s recommendations= regarding the TBVC broadcasters are accepted by […]