Gaye Davis SERIOUS concerns about Peter Mokaba, under fire for failing to commit enough time and energy to a crucial parliamentary committee he chairs on environment affairs and tourism, were aired this week at a meeting attended by ANC chief whip the Reverend Arnold Stofile. Mounting frustration among committee members over Mokaba’s repeated absence from […]

Critical Consumer Pat Sidley CONSUMERS needing glasses and looking for cheaper or quicker alternatives to traditional optometrists may have noticed a growth in new and different forms of doing business among some optometrists. They’ve been at it a while — and hassled by officialdom for doing it. But their type of practice appears to be […]

The Budget sacrifices public health to the interests of=20 the tobacco industry, says the anti-smoking lobby=20 Jacques Magliolo reports=20 IncreaseS of 25 percent on cigarette taxes and nine=20 percent on beer are not high enough, the National=20 Council Against Smoking has commented on this year’s=20 “The new tobacco taxes continue to reflect a conflict=20 between […]

R750 000 in church funds have gone missing but anti- apartheid activist Rev Eddie Leeuw denies he benefited THE Reverend Eddie Leeuw, one of the leading church activists of the Eighties and current director of Eastern Cape Peace Initiative, has become embroiled in a R750 000 church fund fraud scandal. The announcement of the police […]

Clive Simpkins With all the brouhaha about a national health scheme,=20 the whole issue of marketing safer sex to ill-informed,=20 superstitious and suspicious communities is in danger=20 of being eclipsed, or altogether lost. Get ready for an=20 unpopular and un-PC but vital series of observations. The recent international Aids conference in South=20 Africa highlighted some […]

Economists believe the all-important Budget=20 deficit is still too high. Reg Rumney reports Finance Minister Chris Liebenberg did not go far enough=20 in cutting the projected Budget deficit to 5,8 percent=20 for the 1995/96 financial year.=20 This is the feeling among economists canvassed by the=20 Weekly Mail & Guardian. They felt the Budget does not […]

Pat Sidley SOUTH AFRICANS will not be able to see the full effects=20 of the first budget of the government of national unity=20 until the nine provinces present their budgets to their=20 provincial legislatures within the next few weeks. The budget presented in parliament this week reflected=20 the amounts allocated for various national government=20 departments […]

It is the viewer who makes the artwork, Chile’s Carlos=20 Capel=FCn told Ivor Powell IN 1974, Carlos Capel=FCn was one of a group of anti- dictatorship activists in Chile who, as the chilling=20 violation of grammar has it, “were disappeared”.=20 Somehow, this particular group managed to smuggle out a=20 piece of paper bearing the names […]

While Chris Liebenberg announced the long awaited=20 scrapping of the discriminatory tax on married women,=20 he said child rebates would be abolished.=20 However, to lessen the burden on lower income earners,=20 who are most affected by the loss of the child rebate,=20 the primary rebate would go up by R400. The middle classes were the […]

This year’s Windybrow Arts Festival tackles inner-city=20 issues in an appeal to the people of Hillbrow. Matthew=20 Krouse reports T HE logistics of running an annual arts festival that=20 caters for all interest groups in Johannesburg and its=20 immediate surrounds continue to be hotly debated. In=20 planning such events, administrators leave themselves=20 as open to […]