Gaye Davis THE rumblings began almost as soon as the survey teams hit the=20 cobblestones in the Parliamentary precinct. It was, said Dr Mamphela Ramphele, director of Idasa=D5s Public Information= Centre (PIC), a historic opportunity for MPs and senators to prove they=20 were really as transparent and accessible to the electorate as they claimed= to […]

Neil Bierbaum=20 Residents and owners of flats and townhouses could face difficulties if the= opt for satellite television. Most municipal by-laws only allow for one aerial stack or satellite dish.= However, existing units do not have the correct wiring to carry the high=20 frequency (IF) signal from a satellite dish to the Integrated Receiver=20 Decoder […]

Steuart Wright ALMOST 160 illegal squatters who received confused messages from=20 politicians including President Nelson Mandela about their future were=20 charged with contempt of court this week. The squatters, from Mandela and Slovo Parks outside Umtata, are accused=20 of defying a court order compelling them to leave their piece of prime land= In June they […]

SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe THE South African team, which assembles on Monday in preparation for=20 the Africa Nations Cup finals which take place in South Africa from=20 January 13 to February 3 next year, know that they have a momentous task=20 ahead of them. This week they were drawn in a group with Cameroon, Egypt and […]

Rehana Rossouw CAPE TOWN either has an Olympic bid which benefits the poor, or the=20 Games will not take place in the city in 2004, a coalition of organisations= has warned. Slamming the initiative as a =D2big business bid=D3, the Coalition for=20 Sustainable Cities (CSC), representing 35 trade union, political,=20 environmental and development organisations, this […]

With a draft Bill banning almost all child labour about to be presented to= the Cabinet, trainee journalist Fumane Diseko posed as a child labourer,=20 and ended up being fired without pay Fumane Diseko It is 6.30 in the morning at a petrol station in Leandra. More than 35 peop= stuff themselves into the back […]

Shaun de Waal NEIL YOUNG: Mirror Ball (Warner Bros) ON this magnificent album, the godfather of grunge teams up with some of=20 his godchildren, namely Pearl Jam. Less eccentric than last year=D5s Sleeps= with Angels, this is deceptively simple rock=D5n=D5roll exactly as it shoul= d be=20 =D1 three-chord-wonders (one after another), tangled in Young=D5s wailing,= […]

Many of South Africa=D5s representatives have good prospects for gold in th= upcoming All Africa Games in Zimbabwe, writes Julian Drew AFTER International Olym-pic Committee president Juan Antonio=20 Samaranch opens the sixth All Africa Games in Harare next Wednesday=20 South Africa=D5s 407-strong team is expected to claim a sizable proportion = the available medals over […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift WEARING a crown is one of the most uncomfortable and unwieldy=20 burdens given to sporting champions. Certainly, this proved the case for=20 South Africa at Ellis Park last Saturday. Even the 40-11 final scoreline=20 against the 14 Welshmen who remained on the field at the final whistle=20 didn=D5t quite re-gild the tarnish […]

Aspasia Karras talks to Dr Danisa Baloyi about the challenges facing the=20 chairwoman of the Gauteng Tender Board Dr Danisa Baloyi=D5s appointment as chairwoman of the Gauteng Tender=20 Board could be seen as the culmination of an active mobilising presence in= the black business community, where she has been central in the formation= of such […]