Rehana Roussow THE African National Congress’s Western Cape provincial conference last weekend failed to provide a blueprint for victory for the party in the 1999 elections. Delegates who had hoped their organisation’s biennial conference would provide a solution for its inability to attract coloured voters left dissatisfied as not one resolution on the thorny issue […]
Against a background of pink gins and turbans, cricket in Kenya is gaining in popularity with all population groups CRICKET:Neil Manthorp IT is well known that Africa is a continent as full of contradictions as a pomegranate is of pips, but that does not make the four- nations tournament currently under way in Nairobi any […]
The ANC is making sure more than ever before that its MPs toe the party line. Gaye Davis reports AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS members of Parliament are expressing growing concern with the organisation’s leadership style, citing mismanagement of crises, a consolidation of central authority and a clampdown on internal dissent. The Mail & Guardian has interviewed […]
The smaller unions have taken some humiliating beatings this season and these lopsided clashes aren’t good for spectators or players RUGBY:Jon Swift AT the heart of every sporting endeavour is the contest. Without this vital ingredient the game itself ceases to be a spectacle, fails to hold the hearts and minds of the followers and […]
ART: Hazel Friedman ASK artist John Meyer what his ultimate artistic ambition is and he will answer, unequivocally, “to paint like Velasquez”. As far as this painter of realist landscapes and portraits is concerned, in 300 years nobody has come closer to exuding true power through paint than the Spanish master, painter of the Rokeby […]
IT is late evening, and Johannesburg is a city under siege. Forty-four Main Street, headquarters of the Oppenheimer mining and industrial empire – on some measures the greatest commercial concern on earth – was once the juiciest target on the nationalisation hit-list of Nelson Mandela’s liberationists. Now its top brass have the uncomfortable feeling that […]
Joshua Amupadhi SEVERAL high schools near Johannesburg are under police guard after 14 pupils died recently in mysterious circumstances. In one incident a week ago, four men allegedly abducted two high school pupils attending funerals at KwaThema graveyard, 50km east of Johannesburg, shot one dead and wounded the other in the chest. But now pupils […]
Putting Rhodes University on the tracks of transformation may not be easy, writes Peter Dickson, but it appears the right man to do so is now at the helm THERE was a time in the 1980s when Rhodes University stood at the forefront of apartheid resistance on South Africa’s liberal English-speaking university campuses. But with […]
deal Stefaans Br?mmer CAMERON commissioner Laurie Nathan this week joined the chorus of concern over South Africa’s decision to sell arms to Rwanda, saying the government had not complied with its own criteria on exports to sensitive areas. Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Kader Asmal, who heads the Cabinet committee responsible for arms control, countered […]
Discussions on the finer points of the Constitution are stretching negotiations to the very last minute. Marion Edmunds reports ATTEMPTS by political parties and public groups to bring new issues into the Constitution-amending process, or to stretch old ones out, is partly responsible for holding up agreement on matters referred back to the Constitutional Assembly. […]