The Western Cape ANC is under pressure to abandon an unwritten rule that its chairperson be coloured, Rehana Rossouw reports SENIOR sources in the Western Cape ANC say a major shake-up is required if the party expects to challenge the National Party in 1999 for control of the province. Following their crushing defeat in urban […]
Large multinationals in Zimbabwe have been criticised for not putting blacks in top spots, reports Iden Wetherell Sixteen years after Zimbabwe’s independence, company chairmen may be black but chief executives are still mostly white. This is so even in companies where the government has a majority share. Skewed recruitment patterns which overlook local talent led […]
A TRICKLE of mourners gathered at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg this week to pay their final respects to Peta Teanet, the king of Shangaan disco who was killed on July 13. Apart from Mzwakhe Mbuli who acted as master of ceremonies, there were few high-profile artists to honour their slain colleague, and no […]
`I BELIEVE in inner beauty,” says Tarryn Meaker, 17 years old and winner of Cosmopolitan’s Supermodel 1996 competition held at Carfax, at Johannesburg’s Newtown precinct, last week. She’s won a place in the annual search for the International Ford Models Supermodel of the World competition to be held in Los Angeles later this year. The […]
Max Mosselson AS a disinterested observer it seems that the recent “acid-burn case”, as it has come to be known, has four important repercussions for the South African legal system, apart from the individual participants in the drama. As any legal practitioner with experience in the field will confirm, there is an almost total blanket […]
Eddie Koch South Africa’s first legal dagga plot — an experimental project near Rustenburg in the North West province — has just completed pioneering research which could provide farmers with a lucrative new cash crop. The Tobacco and Cotton Research Institute (TCRI) recently produced a report on a two-year research project aimed at developing a […]
Marion Edmunds IT’S being called the Group Areas Act for immigrants. Foreigners who acquire permanent residence status in the new South Africa will not be allowed to move home from one province to another for a year after their application is approved. Nor will they be able to change jobs without permission from the Home […]
The Mark Gevisser Profile A voice of truth and dissent My comrades and friends killed my granny with fire… But before that, they sucked her breasts dry… so that she could burn well This poem by Sandile Dikeni, soon to be published in the upcoming two-volume edition of Staffrider, must be the most devastating and […]
Art was put in service of advertising in the spectacle that was BMW’s Sandton Square sculpture garden. IAN TROMP reports `IN the beginning there was silence.” Not even powerful lighting and loud music could redeem the voice-over accompanying Revelations in Form, an exhibition that was really a product launch for BMW’s new 5 Series. A […]
Hazel Friedman and Jacquie Golding-Duffy explain to confused viewers how to choose between the two satellite services — analogue and digital Astrasat, the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s satellite channel is being flighted free-of-charge to television audiences, but that will not be the case for much longer. According to SABC group communications manager Enoch Sithole, viewers […]