The fiery bluster of right-wing farmers has given way=20 to a more pragmatic approach over the new labour=20 tenants’ Bill, reports Eddie Koch EDDIE von Maltitz swaggered around with a 9mm=20 parabellum strapped to his waist. The vierkleur,=20 pennant of the ultra-right, was flying at the entrance.=20 And murmurs of malcontent rumbled through the ranks […]

Jacques Magliolo DESPITE growing local and international competition in=20 the electronics market, Johannesburg Stock Exchange- listed Log-Tek produced enviable results for its=20 financial year to end-April 1995.=20 Earnings per share climbed by a spectacular 138 percent=20 to 57,5 cents a share and a dividend of 17 cents (1994:=20 eight cents) was declared. This is a […]

FINE ART: Ivor Powell AS a child, I used to play a detective game without any=20 real rules. All you had to do was wander around in the=20 veld examining scraps of paper, .rusted tins, the=20 occasional used condom, crumpled cigarette packets,=20 leaking batteries … all of which became clues to a=20 fictional crime. The […]

Chris Louw SOUTH AFRICA will decide before the end of the year on=20 assuming diplomatic relations with the giant People’s=20 Republic of China. Early indications are that Taiwan=20 will be told to close its embassy in Pretoria. Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad, reacting to a=20 report in last week’s M&G, said his department was=20 under […]

ATHLETICS: Julian Drew SOUTH AFRICA’S top middle distance athlete got a far=20 from ideal send off at Jan Smuts Airport last week when=20 he flew to Europe to begin his campaign in preparation=20 for August’s world championships in Sweden. Shadrack Hoff and his coach Kenny Bouwer were checking=20 in for their flight when the sister […]

Rehana Rossouw DURING the July parliamentary recess, when the nation’s=20 leaders flee from Cape Town to service their=20 constituencies or simply take a break, their seats in=20 parliament will be filled by the future leaders of=20 South Africa when the South African Youth Parliament=20 Organised by the Street Law project, the initiative is=20 bringing together […]

Sitting on a crate in a far corner behind the shelves,=20 a Drum magazine in his hand, Mabutho Dube looks like an=20 ordinary doorman as he buzzed customers in and out of=20 an emergency pharmacy in Rosettenville. The twenty-one-year-old, former Mofolo, Soweto, SDU=20 member is one of two Sibuyile security men hired after=20 armed robbers […]

Patrick Goodenough in East London Former Transkei military strongman Bantu Holomisa took=20 a leaf out of the CIA’s book when he sent a military=20 signal to abduct a wanted man from Johannesburg in 1991=20 “like the Americans did with Noriega”. Holomisa effectively confirmed this week that=20 Vulindlela Mbotoli, the prisoner pardoned and released=20 on Monday […]

Barney Simon, theatre director and writer, born April=20 13 1932; died June 30 1995. Friends and colleagues pay=20 # Lionel Abrahams THE last time I saw Barney Simon was in January this=20 year at the memorial function for the late Joe Slovo in=20 the Johannesburg City Hall. Among the many eulogies=20 from a rack of […]

Clive Simpkins FREE enterprise is posing problems as South African=20 sexuality creeps out of the closet.=20 The vague limbo of the present censorship regulations=20 has led to a plethora of skin magazines and videos=20 flooding the marketplace. In many instances this has=20 led to grave concern by parents whose children are=20 unwittingly exposed to adult […]