MUSIC The inaugural Splashy Fen fiddling competition strives to boost appreciation for the fiddle, writes ALEX SUDHEIM IT is a beautiful late autumn evening in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains — the moon at its fullest bathes the valley in alabaster and scented woodsmoke rises from a multitude of campfires. Groups huddle about pots […]
Suzanne Goldenberg reports on how the prospects for the poor might improve with inward investment IN a village on the eastern edges of India, where the lives of the poor have only a passing acquaintance with the 20th century, Laloo Prasad Yadav was rattling off the names of foreign countries like an incantation. “I have […]
‘Hawk’ Makepula is the joker in the Olympic team, but in the ring he’s deadly serious BOXING: Julian Drew IN the first round of the All Africa Games boxing tournament in Harare last year the opponent of South Africa’s light-flyweight contestant failed to come to his corner. As Masibulele “Hawk” Makepula did a mock victory […]
NO matter which way you cut the cake, professional golf in this country has some serious problems to address. And there is the inescapable feeling that it has been coming for a while. It came to a head this week when the South African Professional Golfers Association threatened to withdraw its backing of the Pro […]
Eddie Koch DURBAN must qualify as South Africa’s capital of paradox. Thousands of residents celebrated a week of political crisis in the city — shootings outside the civic centre by armed marchers, threats to bomb the truth commission hearings and talk of escalating civil war over local government elections next month — by heading to […]
The IBA will no longer formulate telecommunications policies, writes Jacquie Golding-Duffy THE announcement early this week by Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Minister Jay Naidoo that his department will take over the task of developing telecommunications policies has met with mixed response. While some in the industry are apprehensive about the Independent Broadcasing Authority (IBA) shedding […]
Stefaans Brummer THE master of the supreme court is investigating a false signature on the trust deed of a non-governmental organisation set up by truth commission reparations committee head Hlengiwe Mkhize.Mpumalanga clergyman Father Michel Barrette has complained to the supreme court that the signature — which appears to confirm him as a trustee of the […]
Marion Edmunds SLY to the last, the National Party attempted to win constitutional guarantees for special pensions for long-serving parliamentarians, just before the end of the constitutional negotiations. It was with some surprise that the waiting hordes of journalists heard, in the last nail- biting night, that the NP had added a new proposal on […]
The Constitution has become a yardstick of the success and strength of the political parties, and will do much to define them in the eyes of the public in the run-up to the 1999 general elections. Marion Edmunds reports WHERE does the Constitutional Assembly leave the African National Congress? “In a league of its own.” […]
THE creation of a huge South African oil company is firmly back on the agenda of those in government quietly plotting a new-look oil industry. The scheme originally involved a link-up between Engen, Sasol Oil, and the state’s bag of oil assets, but government sources said this week that Total SA could also be part […]