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. […]

Hazel Friedmnan reports on a new twist in the Jurgen Schadeberg/Jim Bailey saga involving the copyright of Drum photograhs THE long and bitter battle by ex-Drum photographer Jurgen Schadeberg to reclaim ownership of his photographs from Jim Bailey, who owned the pioneering African magazine in the Fifties and Sixties, has taken an ominous turn. In […]

TENNIS:Jon Swift PERHAPS one of the better things about ageing – and there aren’t that many – is that you can, given the opportunity, alter the rules to suit. Certainly this looks the case with the draw for the up-coming MTN Champions Tournament at Sandton Square – done in Washington and not locally, the organisers […]

Julian Drew AFTER staging the extremely successful world cross country championships in March, Stellenbosch once again gets the opportunity to put Cape Town’s Olympic bid on the map when it stages the Modern Pentathlon World Cup on Saturday. Olympian Claud Cloete of Cape Town, who finished 15th in Atlanta out of the 32- strong field, […]

The 1996 Southern African film festival in Harare has just drawn to a close. Andrew Worsdale was there. MOST African films suffer from the development paradigm: the funding situation gets in the way of true cinematic story- telling. Certainly the line-up of 1996 award-winners reflected such paradoxes. Most of the films were old and several […]

allegations Eddie Koch AN investigations team at the Transvaal attorney general’s office is working around the clock to probe at least 50 incidents of violence and murder in which security force generals and former Cabinet ministers have been implicated by Eugene de Kock. The barrage of allegations presented in De Kock’s testimony in the Pretoria […]

PRESSURES for the reintroduction of the death penalty in South Africa continue to rise. With something of a campaign on the issue led by the National Party, The Star claims a survey it conducted shows that 93% of the population has joined the “hang ’em high” brigade – at least to the extent that they […]

An inquiry into mine violence has lost momentum with the absence of Uwusa, report Bronwen Jones and Stuart Hess IN the week when at least 24 mineworkers were slain, fears are mounting that a major judicial inquiry into mine violence will be torpedoed by the absence of the United Workers Union of South Africa (Uwusa) […]

ART: Hazel Friedman IF there is one process with which South Africans are intimately, agonisingly familiar it is branding. Remember apartheid? You’d be hard pressed to find a more appropriate example of political cattle- branding. But the repetitive, mechanical action whereby a motif is burnt into an object as a sign of identity, ownership and […]

Angella Johnson AN investigation has been ordered into allegations by a female foreign journalist that she was sexually harassed by a member of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s office. Suzanne Daley, a correspondent on the New York Times, has made a number of allegations that Ricky Naidoo, press officer to Mbeki, attempted to sexually harass her […]