Bruce Cohen A MASSIVE European Union (EU) development package for South Africa — R500-million in 1995 — is currently being finalised in Brussels. It will bring much-needed relief to many NGOs which have been staggering through a funding crisis since the April election. NGOs, however, will have to get used to sharing the EU funding […]

Nombuyiselo Maloyi YOU can’t miss the Freedom Square RDP and Healing Centre, launched on Saturday. Fifty shipping containers painted in all the colours of the new South Africa flag now occupy the field in Kliptown, near Soweto, where the Freedom Charter was drafted 49 years ago. The traders’ containers and corrugated iron units were donated […]

THEATRE: Robert Greig Janice Honeyman’s Jukebox Jol (at the Civic Theatre, Johannesburg) reflects more than it says. It reflects the existence of much musical talent and creative vigour but little structure or sense. Christmas is, of course, the season of licensed blandness, and this one concludes a year noticeable for its theatrical dullness. The demise […]

# Danceworks, Principia, Patrol — Steve Martland Band/Smith Quartet (Catalyst) The new-music label Catalyst has had far more misses than hits so far, but these three pieces by Steve Martland provide a very good introduction to his musical world, which treads a canny course along the borders of minimalism, rock and jazz. Like his teacher, […]

TRADITIONAL leaders called for land restitution claims to be considered from 1652 instead of 1913 at the conference of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa in Midrand last weekend. Contralesa president Chief Phathekile Holomisa also expressed concern over the only-partial political freedom guaranteed traditional leaders in the interim constitution. “It denies chiefs their […]

Cricket is now integrated in South Africa and the national team is taking on the best in the world, but in Lenasia they still support the Pakistan team CRICKET: Luke Alfred THOSE who attended the limited overs match between Pakistan and a Transvaal Invitation XI at the MR Varachia stadium in Lenasia last Thursday were […]

Kader Asmal, water affairs and forestry minister, sets out the formidable challenges facing the ANC THERE are two powerful messages that Bloemfontein can give the nation over the next week. First, the ANC conference can confirm that the ANC is the natural party of government; second, it can be demonstrated that all South Africans are […]

Critical Consumer Pat Sidley MOST South African consumers had a magnificent year. The disenfranchised majority acquired and used that precious commodity — a vote — and got the government they wanted. This government in turn often proved more responsive to consumer needs than the last lot. Its interventions ranged from keeping the maize price at […]

The Markets Jacques Magliolo MARKET experts are more vague than usual in their predictions for economic activity and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1995. “Depending on who you are talking to, you can get diametrically opposite viewpoints,” says one industrial analyst, adding that “maybe the holiday season has already hit them”. On industrial shares expert […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift THERE can be no doubting the petential matchwinning abilities of Richard Snell as a seam bowler. He is one of the few South Africans who can regularly produce the unplayable ball. Snell remains an enigma. At the heart of the South African one-day revival with four wickets for 37 runs off the […]