Anne Eveleth Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom rejected reports=20 that legislation he proposed to Cabinet this week was=20 aimed at privatising tribal land rights, and said the=20 draft Bill would instead provide legal security to=20 millions of impoverished black rural South Africans=20 living on tribal land in the former homelands. Hanekom said the proposed Interim […]

Pat Sidley dissects the profound — and controversial – – changes proposed for South Africa’s health services ‘A caring health service” is the Department of Health’s=20 slogan describing its work. And it’s been a gruelling=20 five months for its committee charged with starting the=20 The Committee of Inquiry into a National Health=20 Insurance System has […]

Justin Pearce World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)=20 development blueprints have been lambasted by a report=20 released by the development agency Oxfam.=20 The report says the World Bank and IMF schemes,=20 introduced in the early 1980s to promote economic=20 recovery, deepen the cycle of poverty endured by the=20 citizens of developing countries. The Oxfam […]

Rehana Rossouw November’s local government election could be even more=20 chaotic than last year’s national elections in which=20 the Independent Election Commission (IEC) was given=20 only three months to prepare for a poll in which 19- million people participated, former IEC chairman Mr=20 Justice JC Kriegler warned this week. “We were given three months to […]

The dream final — the single mindedness and skill of=20 the All Blacks against the ‘one team, one nation’=20 determination of South Africa=20 RUGBY: Jon Swift IT IS fitting, given the World Cup trials and=20 tribulations of Francois Pienaar’s South African side,=20 that the final hurdle should be in the form of this=20 country’s traditional […]

Rehana Rossouw HYSTERIA whipped up about people pouring across South=20 Africa’s borders to steal jobs from legal citizens is=20 based on unreliable information and does not take into=20 account South Africa’s moral duty to build a strong=20 regional economy. This is the message from a high-level delegation of=20 parliamentarians and representatives of non- governmental organisations […]

A new Idasa report highlights ministries which have=20 tabled new laws, and those which haven’t, reports Eddie=20 IF Vaclav Havel were judge, Nelson Mandela would=20 triumph. The playwright and premier of the Czech=20 Republic believes that reconstruction in his country is=20 not about replacing socialism with capitalism, or=20 poverty with wealth, but “about truth, how […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin IN Walt Disney’s 33rd animated feature film,=20 Pocahontas, a native American heroine, is cast in the=20 mould of the Little Mermaid, Beauty and Jasmin, all of=20 whom are free spirits. With her sculpted features and=20 long flowing black hair, she goes wherever the wind=20 takes her. And it leads her directly to […]

FINE ART: Ivor Powell LET’S talk materials here. On the Newtown Galleries’=20 exhibition by Marc Edwards, Albert Munyai and Jeremy=20 Wafer is a piece titled Form .Evolved From a Force –=20 also described as “on loan from Barnett Auto Spares”.=20 Edwards’ work is the hideously mangled, shattered and=20 bloodstained wreckage of a car that has […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift JONAH LOMU and James Small. A confrontation which has=20 enthralled and excited ever since the tournament drew=20 towards a possible final meeting between South Africa=20 and New Zealand. Lomu is, to quote England coach Jack Rowell, “a=20 phenomenon” and “the difference” in the 42-29 scoreline=20 which condemned the Poms to a play-off […]