Jan Taljaard IT was truly a gathering of the faithful. In contrast to the milling throngs of the past, just over 800 supporters turned up at the Pretoria City Hall this week to listen to the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging’s Eugene Terre’Blanche. In the past, the Pretoria City Hall had served the AWB well as a recruiting […]

The leader of the African Muslim Party has helped victims from Bangladesh to Bosnia. Now he is using his skills to aid Rwanda. Stefaans Brummer reports Imtiaz Sooliman, a doctor turned politician and aid broker, has a plan to aid Rwanda which could put to shame last month’s South African airlift to the refugee camps. […]

Brezhnev’s favourite dish was veal and pork stuffed with vegetables; Gorbachev prefers smoked salmon blinis. Fabius Burger sampled the fare of tsars and presidents at Moscow THE Russians aren’t coming. They’ve arrived, culinary-wise that is, in the restaurant Moscow in Rosebank, Johannesburg, which has been open for just a week. And no, you don’t sit […]

Farouk Chothia LAMONTVILLE residents have illegally occupied scores of homes built in the township south of Durban arguing that they have preference in terms of the government’s Reconstruction and Development Programme. People took occupation of the houses — built by Stocks & Stocks for Toyota employees — last Sunday and have vowed not to move. […]

The government hopes to control the billions of rands allocated for development with a controversial licensing proposal, reports Chris Louw A POWER struggle is raging between the government and independent development organisations for control over billions of rands flowing into the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) from abroad. At stake is R2-3 billion allocated to […]

Jacques Magliolo British Minister of Trade and Industry Heseltine’s recent visit to South Africa was more than a welcome back to the Commonwealth. Among his entourage were Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) representatives, whose plegde to invest in the new South Africa seemed to go unnoticed. Their commitment does not lie in money or investment of […]

Guy Willoughby LAST year, in a ground-breaking effort to attract new writing to radio drama, a competition was launched by Radio South Africa in conjunction with the Congress of South African Writers (Cosaw). This year, Soundscapes: New Voices of the ’90s again appeals to local writers to explore the medium of sound — “the theatre […]

Television Sophie Perryer WE might have made the giant leap of faith into the new South Africa, but it was on everyone’s lips this week that the sins of the past should not be forgotten. While opposing members of the government debated the formation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, artist William Kentridge translated his […]

Tenant farming communities are being ignored in the land- reform process. This could prove disastrous for the government, warns Dave Husy of the Farmworkers’ Research and Resource Project RECENTLY 7 000 farm tenants and workers downed tools and took to the streets of traditionally ultra-conservative Piet Retief, marching through the town to present a memorandum […]