Good leaders will do anything to maintain morale, which is the only apparent explanation for President Nelson Mandela’s enthusiastic assessment of this week’s Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit. It must be conceded that they did approve the Sappigmou (the Southern African Power Pool Inter-Governmental Memorandum of Understanding, for those who do not keep up […]

The National Party found a new weapon at its weekend bosberaad — fear. Marion Edmunds reports THE spectre that looms large in National Party nightmares is a one-party state, belonging to the ANC in 1996. This fear motivates the party in its low moments, it’s a focus at bosberade and bands the members together when […]

Rowan Callaghan Global investors rate competitive tax rates a=20 surprising fifth behind currency, political stability=20 and infrastructure on a list of criteria to evaluate=20 countries’ suitability for investment devised for Ernst=20 & Young’s Strategic Trends report.=20 A survey of 230 investors was conducted for this year’s=20 report which, for the first time, details world tax=20 […]

ANC MP Ela Gandhi argues that the state’s social assistance schemes are discriminatory, and should be extended to all Among the many pieces of apartheid legislation in our country there is one which has major implications for the Government of National Unity — the Social Assistance Bill and its regulations. In terms of this Bill, […]

The Independent Broadcasting Authority report released this week is an important step towards a healthy and open broadcasting system. The juggernaut SABC is to be reduced to a manageable size to allow space for other broadcasters. Local content regulations will stimulate the television production and music industries without being unachievable. Cross-media ownership limitations should help […]

Ann Eveleth The pressure is on KwaZulu-Natal Attorney General Tim McNally after a Durban Supreme Court judge this week ordered investigations into senior Inkatha Freedom Party and KwaZulu Police officials. Judge Nick van der Reyden said the State had failed to disprove allegations by hit-squad accused Romeo Mbambo, Gcina Mkhize and Israel Hlongwane that they […]

Eddie Koch The Department of Environment Affairs is being pressed by the Australian government to help weaken a proposed international ban on shipments of hazardous materials from industrialised to non-industrialised countries. The department has already been rocked by news that its consultants have allowed consignments of hazardous waste into the country, despite an official prohibition […]

Short-term insurers have performed well this year so=20 far, despite crime and surging claims, reports Karen=20 Short-term insurance companies have reported surging=20 profits for the first half of 1995 but this doesn’t=20 mean premiums will be lowered, or even stabilised. For the six months ending June 1995, net income=20 reported by SA Eagle was R116-million, […]

Athletics fans can look forward to seeing one of the=20 greatest milers of all time when Noureddine Morceli=20 takes part in the opening of the new athletics=20 stadium in Johannesburg ATHLETICS: Julian Drew GROWING up in a country which was soccer crazy and had=20 little tradition in athletics it would have been hard=20 for Algeria’s […]

BALLET: Stanley Peskin IN Marius Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty (presented by=20 Pact Ballet at the State Theatre), there are three=20 potent centres of power: the king and the ceremonious=20 nature of his court; the evil fairy Carabosse, who,=20 performed en travestie, makes a parody of the=20 christening rites at the beginning of the ballet; and=20 […]