According to the as yet unreleased IBA report, the SABC will be divested of one of its channels, to be sold to private interests, reports Justin Pearce The South African Broadcasting Corporation will lose one of its three television channels at the end of 1997, to make room for South Africa’s first privately owned, free […]
Coloured people are examining their identity in a non- racial South Africa, writes Gaye Davis RHODA Khadalie describes her ethnicity as “purely incidental”. Her grandfather, a Malawian, came to the Cape where he married her Cape Malay grandmother. Had they returned to his homeland, she too would have been a Malawian. As it was, they […]
Karen Harverson Gencor’s Impala Platinum (Implats), the world’s second- largest platinum producer, is looking at projects to increase the amount of platinum it recovers from ore. This is cheaper than increasing the amount of ore The group produces more than a million ounces of platinum a year from both Merensky and UG2 ores. Implats is […]
Pat Sidley THE mortuary at GaRankuwa Hospital has no drainage for its 66 “fridges”, its inadequate power supply is strained by having to cool too many bodies and its floor is “in a noticeably poor condition”. For those still alive at the hospital complex, things aren’t much better, according to a report after a visit […]
Ann Eveleth Violence monitors have been clamouring for this week’s security force deployments for months now, warning that KwaZulu-Natal was on the slippery slope back to last year’s pre-election chaos. A Markinor report released this week to business leaders said as much, warning that, “the KwaZulu-Natal situation is acute and is beginning to resemble that […]
CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser AS so often in the past, this year’s Glaxo season of the National Symphony Orchestra has contained much to delight classical-music lovers caught idle between the main seasons. Even more refreshing is the fact that most of the outstanding performances have come from local artists. Peter Jaspan gave a sparkling performance […]
Hugh Masekela, Pact assistant CEO, in The Mark Gevisser ‘Seventh floor!” shouts a voice in campy, elevator-lady pitch as the crowded State Theatre lift bumps to a halt. Its occupants lower their eyes embarrassedly as a grim Pretoria cultural apparatchik pushes his way forward and the voice continues, “ladies underwear and apparel!” As the lift […]
White doctors spoke out vociferously against the ‘Deeble plan’ for national health insurance. Black doctors, however, are upset that this plan is being diluted, reports Pat Sidley JOHN Deeble’s virtues, or lack of them, are in the eye of the beholder. To many general practitioners in this country, the Australian health care expert’s original ideas […]
Saliem Fakir South Africa, because of its rich biodiversity, is now attracting international companies in search of plant material that has horticultural or medicinal value. Traditional healers in this country have used various plants — about 3 000 different species — for the cure or remediation of various ailments. With new developments in chemical analysis, […]
Marion Edmunds Leader of the South African Government Delegation to the Beijing Conference, Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma refused to comment this week on China’s human-rights record, saying that South Africans were going to Beijing to talk about women’s issues, not to scrutinise the Chinese government. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch has distributed a pamphlet called Your […]