With the legalisation of gambling becoming a reality in South Africa, various problems are arising, reports Simon Segal THIS weeks parliamentary ad hoc committee debate on changes to the National Gambling Bill brings legalised gambling closer, and accentuates certain problems. The enabling legislation provides for the granting of 40 licences, a National Gambling Board (NGB), […]

Government is committed to reducing the national debt, but South Africa must not expect overnight miracles, reports Madeleine Wackernagel Chris Liebenberg, the Minister of Finance, has primed the markets for an overrun on the budget deficit to about 6% of gross domestic product (GDP) this year. Longer term, his aim is to trim it by […]

As the symbols of the past moved out, the RDP moved in to kick-start the process of parliamentary transformation, write Richard Calland and Christelle Terreblanche THE long-awaited transformation of Parliament, driven by Speaker Frene Ginwala of the African National Congress, will be paid for by a one-off grant of R82,5-million from the coffers of the […]

Pallo Jordan has outlined ambitious plans to modernise South Africas telecommunications essential for joining the information highway, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy Telkom has set itself the phenomenal target of connecting five million new phones by the year 2000. They have the backing of the Telecommunications Ministry which regards widespread access to telecommunication services as central to […]

Nicole Fritz and Rehana Rossouw Mongezi Stofile was one of thousands of former MK members who reported this week to the Doornkop military base outside Johannesburg to demobilise from the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). He no longer wishes to serve in the military, and went to Doornkop to take advantage of a package […]

ATHLETICS: Julian Drew AT the Old Mutual South African Cross Country Trials on Saturday the cream of South Africas middle-distance running talent will do battle over the same Stellenbosch course that in six weeks time will play host to the world cross country championships. The world championships will be the biggest and most prestigious athletics […]

Marion Edmunds Cape Town wine merchant Vaughan Johnson is to appear in the Cape Town magistrate’s court on February 20 charged with employing a foreigner illegally in his Waterfront wine shop. British-born Sharon Meeking pleaded guilty to working without a permit and paid a fine of R750. Johnson refused to pay an admission of guilt […]

The Get Ahead Foundation’s Don MacRobert bemoans the fact that most overseas development funding is going to the government rather than NGOs FINDING the money to fund the government’s essential Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) was a relatively easy task. Finding ways to ensure that people at grassroots level benefit directly from the programme is, […]

CARNAGE in the streets of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, where more than 80 people were killed and about 1 300 injured last week by suspected Tamil suicide bombers, is a terrible reminder of the human cost of civil war and of the limits of force in solving chronic ethnic conflicts. The violence shows no […]