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 […]
Jo’burg Art Gallery has found an unlikely audience — in street-photographers and their clients. RUTH SACK THE Johannesburg Art Gallery has for years expressed the desire to become meaningful, relevant and, perhaps, useful to its immediate neighbours — the people who occupy and commute through Joubert Park. Well, it’s happened — though not in the […]
THIS week, millions of people all over the globe will be falling over themselves to buy a product that hardly any of them will ever see. It is a revised set of instructions to run the basic functions of IBM- compatible computers. The product is not innovative (its rival has been selling something similar for […]
South Africa’s performance at the Beijing Conference could suffer because of poor preparation, reports Marion Edmunds The leaders of the South African delegation that will be going to the Beijing Conference next month put on brave faces this week, and said they were confident that South Africa would contribute meaningfully to the But, at the […]
Competition Board chairman Pierre Brooks is sharply critical of a culture of anti-competitive behaviour in South African business, Reg Rumney reports Tougher competition policy is necessary and is on the way, promises Competition Board chairman Pierre Brooks. In an interview with Business Mail this week Brooks sharply criticised the pervasive disregard for anti- competitive behaviour […]
Dr NS Kekana SOUTH Africa needs a foreign policy which will allow it to emerge as the leader of Africa. It is now a year since a Minister of Foreign Affairs was appointed, but he has yet to point out the direction that should be taken in foreign policy. The failure of the minister to […]
Karen Harverson Construction of the R205-million Sandton Hilton will be the first concrete result of Malaysian investment interest in South Africa. Construction will begin at the end of the month with completion due by June 1997. The project is a 70/30 joint venture between Malaysian businessman Amin Shah and local consortium Team Development Concepts and […]
Despite a Constitutional Court ruling, children are still being sentenced to whippings as punishment for petty offences, writes Annicia Reddiar WHIPPING of juvenile offenders has not stopped in all of South Africa, in spite of a Constitutional Court ban more than two months ago. And fingers are being pointed at Justice Minister Dullah Omar for […]
It has been well said that South African journalism has been reduced to a wasteland during the apartheid years — censorship and oppression driving some of its brighter talents out of the industry, or out of the country, and Bantu Education doing its best to ensure immediately succeeding generations were ill-qualified to fill the vacuum. […]
Duncan Mackay explains how the dash for cash is manipulated by the world’s top athletes A FUNNY thing happened to Moses Kiptanui on his way to winning a third 3 000m steeplechase title in Gothenburg recently. He suddenly slowed down when he realised he might break the world record. “I want to save that for […]