A PROFESSIONAL dog-fight is raided and three of the spectators are found to be police officers. The Cape Law Society discovers that 20 of its members have been making under-the-counter payments to public officials and tries to protect them. Nearly two million schoolchildren go hungry, because someone has defrauded the national feeding scheme. A study […]
South Africa is mediocre in the world corruption stakes. Reg Rumney reports on a corruption study that finds the country not so guilty South Africa ranks right in the middle of a 1995 corruption ranking of 41 countries. The Corruption Ranking is the result of a study done by Berlin-based Transparency International and the University […]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ian Tromp MICHAEL MEYERSFELD’S photographs are stylish and technically accomplished. But they cannot be described as innovative or groundbreaking — the claim made for them in the press releases for his show at the Everard Read Gallery. The main claim is that this is an exhibition which will alter the very status of photography […]
Your cheque’s in the post … Post Office chairman Donald Masson reassures Bronwen Jones service will definitely get better THE darkest hour before the dawn, is how South Africa’s Post Office chairman describes his own company. Donald Masson has apology down to a fine art. As customers swing the sword of righteous anger, he says […]
CRICKET: Rupert Cox DESPITE the mixed success achieved in England by South Africa’s Under-19 cricketers, this country’s premier strike bowler Allan Donald admits to being envious of the opportunities provided by such a tour. “We didn’t have an Under-19 side when I started out. I didn’t have much coaching at this age group — I […]
Reg Rumney Blame it on the weather and industrial relations on the Preliminary figures show economic growth, as measured by the gross domestic product (GDP) — the total value of all goods and services, adjusted for seasonal factors — slowed to an annualised and real or adjusted-for-inflation 0,8 percent in the second quarter of this […]
Karen Harverson reports on the details of Sasol’s plan to enter the coal export market Sasol’s mining division this week released details of its R635-million plan to enter the coal export market through the expansion of capacity at its Twistdraai Colliery and its recent acquisition of a shareholding in the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT). […]
The photographic exhibition Positive Lives: Responses to HIV challenges our most cherished concepts of life and death, writes HAYDEN PROUD AWARD-WINNING South African photographer Gideon Mendel is the focal point and bridge between this country and Britain in Positive Lives: Responses to HIV, a ground- breaking exhibition which enables poignant comparisons to be made on […]
Pat Sidley Gauteng’s public hospitals are in a state of crisis. Hospital budgets are strained to breaking point, as the government has cut a whopping R600-million from the province’s health budget and sent the money to historically under-served provinces. Patients crowd Gauteng’s health services from all over the country, but there is no way yet […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift THE heart of the misguided and unbearable paternalism which has caused so much damage on so many fronts in this country beats strongly in the bosom of South African rugby. It threatens to rend the game asunder in this country. For nowhere else is arrogance of the “papa knows best” syndrome more […]