Karen Harverson Local coal producers will be vying to clinch the=20 remaining coal contracts for Eskom’s R10-billion Majuba=20 power station which, when completed, will consume some=20 13-million tons of coal a year. =20 The power station, which has a design capacity of 40=20 036 megawatts, will entail the construction of six=20 sets, each consisting of […]

An official probe into ivory and rhino horn smuggling has pointed a finger at the South African Defence Force, reports Ann Eveleth The South African Defence Force (SADF) used funds from poached ivory to recover some of the costs of supplying Unita Forces with provisions during South Africa’s secret war with Angola. South African taxpayers […]

CINEMA: Justin Pearce KEN LOACH’S Raining Stones is the cinematic equivalent=20 of protest theatre — only without the protest. After a=20 decade and a half of Tory government, working-class=20 council housing estates in the north of England are not=20 happy places, and Raining Stones is an account of the=20 misery created by unemployment, a broken-down […]

Members of Parliament paid fines of R22 500 for absenteeism last year. And, according to the register, which is known to be inaccurate, a number of MPs may pay up this year as well. IFP MP Dr DR Madide was away for 37 days between February and June this year, and the ANC’s chief whip […]

Marion Edmunds The Department of Foreign Affairs is to adapt its definition of the ‘family’ to suit the new South Africa. Before 1994, diplomats living in overseas missions recieved certain allowances for their ”dependants” or children. Now Foreign Affairs wants to change the definition of ”dependants” to make it possible to include members of the […]

Marthinus Basson’s production of Cabaret is chic,=20 decadent — and well researched, writes ANDREA VINASSA ‘DIE lewe is nie ‘n cabaret nie,” says dreadlocked=20 stage mechanist Eugene Smith in Capab’s dank canteen.=20 In the beleagured world of ”restructuring” and=20 ”transformation culture”, Smith does the work of three=20 mechanists (operating pulleys for trapeze work and=20 other […]

The IBA report will precipitate a rush for satellite=20 television. Neil Bierbaum reports THE rush for satellite television is on. If the=20 Independent Broadcasting Authority reports stands –=20 bringing a two-year wait before South Africa gets a=20 private terrestrial television station — new=20 broadcasters will take to the skies. This is the implication of the […]

SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe COFFEE is the only instant thing Orlando Pirates’ new coach, Joe Frickleton knows. According to him, football is about hard work, patient development of the team, formulation of a winning combination and finding good strikers to put the ball into the net. Frickleton recently came back to Gauteng after nine years with […]

Out-of-work miners are scratching a dangerous and illegal living through small-scale gold mining in the Eastern Transvaal, writes Fumane Diseko Retrenched miners in the Eastern Transvaal are risking their lives for gold, digging their own tunnels into the hills around Barberton to find the ore that can support them and their families. The narrow tunnels […]

South Africa’s foreign policy is a tug of war between realists, who are concerned with getting investment, and radicals, who want us to take the moral high ground, argues international affairs expert Jack Spence THE conventional widsom holds that a country’s foreign policy requires the definition and ranking of national interests based on the “immutable […]