MARIKE DE KLERK won’t be lunching with President Nelson=20 Mandela on Friday — she wasn’t invited. Tienie Vorster=20 and Elize Botha will be there, alongside Adelaide Tambo=20 and Albertina Sisulu, at a lunch hosted by the=20 President for the wives of former South African prime=20 ministers, presidents and liberation movement leaders.=20 Amina Cachalia, who was […]
GOLF: Jon Swift IT WAS hard to equate John Daly, the man who held the claret jug aloft at St Andrews last weekend, with the red-eyed rebel who had to be carried shirtless, rubber legged and near comatose to his room at the Sun City But then, they are surely not the same person. This […]
What do you do when you discover your domestic worker=20 is HIV-positive? A Johannesburg doctor, who cannot be=20 named for professional reasons, came across two=20 startlingly different cases I am a doctor employed in one of the public hospitals=20 in Johannesburg. One of my duties is to consult with=20 patients in the hospitals’ so-called HIV […]
Clive Simpkins PALLO JORDAN is emphatic about not privatising Telkom, yet the Post Office — its sister megalith in our communications industry — is an example of monopolistic and bureaucratic business at its worst. I wrote recently that the mail service was degenerating into a non-service. It’s actually got worse. I received no mail in […]
Justin Pearce As an international campaign to ban landmines was=20 launched in South Africa this week, campaigners=20 expressed concern that the state-owned arms=20 manufacturers should profit both from the manufacture=20 and the removal of mines. It was disclosed this week that Mechem, a division of=20 South African arms giant Denel, is almost certain to=20 assume […]
The great white poachers of the Limpopo Valley have=20 been taken on by a lone ranger, reports Fiona Macleod Sergeant Barnard — the new commander at the Pont Drift=20 station near Alldays — has declared war against the=20 white farmers, police and conservation authorities in=20 the area who have for years been involved in poaching=20 […]
Marion Edmunds POLITICAL parties will scrum down to the debate that=20 everybody has been waiting for — the federalism debate=20 — next week at an all-day meeting of the=20 Constitutional Committee. Federalism is the crunch constitutional debate, the one=20 that will decide the shape of future South African=20 governments. It was the key point of […]
Meshack Mabogoane detects big underlying shifts in black business at the Nafcoc congress There was a strong government presence at the 31st annual conference of the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce (Nafcoc) held this week at Sun The main theme of the conference was how black business could emerge from the sidelines to become […]
The battle between primary health care needs and the=20 right of the individual to expensive transplant=20 operations has forced a government policy decision on the issue, writes Pat Sidley A NATIONAL policy on transplants is being thrashed out=20 — with a draft at the moment before Minister of Health=20 Nkosazana Zuma. Talks leading to the […]
CINEMA: Justin Pearce THE Brady Bunch Movie plays in with a tracking shot down a street of shops offering body-piercing, cappucino, cellphones, smokelessness — all those fads which define the Nineties, if we are to believe Nineties lifestyle magazines. And in the midst of the film’s self-conscious check-list of all that is truly Nineties, we […]