The Education Minister, slated for the slow pace of change in education, promises to set the ball rolling, reports Gaye Davis UNDER fire for not driving the pace of change in education hard or fast enough, Education Minister Professor Sibusiso Bengu says he is now poised to prove to his critics that he can deliver. […]

Rehana Rossouw THE low poll in Student Representative Council elections at the University of Cape Town has divided the student body, with black students citing racism as the reason white students didn’t vote. SRC elections failed to achieve the required 25 percent poll, the first time SRC elections failed to attract enough voters to constitute […]

The Internet is exploding. Bruce Cohen goes surfing for=20 facts on the Net’s tidal wave of growth MIKE LAWRIE, manager of Uninet, the vast computer=20 network that links thousands of South African academics=20 and students to the global information highway,is=20 feeling the squeeze. Right now Uninet is shifting 100- million bytes of data=20 an hour […]

The only possible threat South African banks face is=20 foreign competition.=20 Reg Rumney reports Foreign competition is the biggest threat to the=20 margins of the banking industry — but foreign banks=20 are unlikely to want to upset the domestic applecart. Alan McConnochie of broker Ed Hern Rudolph, writing in=20 accountancy firm KPMG’s 1995 Banking Survey, […]

The South African Citizenship Bill is an inadequate piece of legislation which requires attention, writes the Black Sash’s Sheena Duncan When Mr M, a South African citizen born in the Eastern Transvaal, was deported to Mozambique as an illegal alien for the second time, he approached the Black Sash Advice Office in Pretoria for assistance. […]

NO national commercial licences on FM. A number of=20 private radio stations will be licensed at a regional,=20 provincial and local level on both FM and MW. According=20 to an IBA official these could be licensed “within nine=20 Regional windows should also be provided for on public=20 service radio stations (duration unspecified). Several =20 radio […]

Now in their seventh year, Not the Midnight Mass’=20 slightly sleazy edge is still razor-sharp, writes HAZEL=20 WHAT can you say about a troupe of actors-turned- singers who transformed an unemployment pit-stop and=20 after-hours slot between tits’n’bum time into an=20 institution? It’s pretty much been said before: the=20 eulogies to their Addams Family antics, their […]

Meshack Mabogoane The road to a full-scale market economy in Mozambique=20 is, like peace, “irreversible”, President Joachim=20 Chissano said in Sandton recently when he addressed a=20 special meeting of businesspeople. He said joint ventures for the development of major=20 infrastructure were the “only policy option available”=20 and “we may no longer guarantee the development of […]

The Constitutional Court is about to decide on the legality of banning porn, writes Justin Pearce Pornography will be in the dock next week when the Constitutional Court considers whether a section of the Indecent or Obscene Photographic Matter Act of 1967 should be scrapped in terms of the free speech provisions and other constitutional […]

Stefaans Brummer THE irony of their own attendance at Monday’s Southern African Development Community summit could not have been lost on Constand Viljoen and Pik Botha. A succession of regional leaders made sure they had no Both men sat attentively in the large but select World Trade Centre audience when three presidents, including Nelson Mandela, […]