Parliamentarians may soon be governed by a code of ethics, reports Gaye Davis A CODE of ethics could be awaiting parliamentarians when they return for the new session in February, following agreement this week by a majority of parties that members’ financial and other interests should be But the code will initially be governed not […]

Health care can cost an arm and a leg and is a grave concern for the employers of today, reports Karen The cost of health care has been identified as the priority issue facing employers in the 1995 health care benefits survey undertaken by Old Mutual. Yet the survey also revealed that more than 70 […]

Parliamentary questioning of Kwazulu-Natal Attorney- General Tim McNally started off looking like a wild west duel, but ended in a stand-off, writes David It was 12 midday exactly — “high noon” in gunfighter parlance — when Tim McNally took his seat in Room 153 at the Union Buildings on Wednesday. A slight, grey- haired figure […]

>From the birth of the idea at a council bosberaad to the frantic finishing touches, the Johannesburg Stadium has been clouded in controversy ATHLETICS: Julian Drew THE meeting which launched Johannesburg’s new R97- million athletics stadium last weekend can be pronounced a success judging by the response of the world’s media. Linford Christie’s 9.97 seconds […]

FINE ART: Hazel Friedman IN his lyrical essay accompanying Jane Alexander’s exhibition (now at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg), Ivor Powell writes about the way technology has transformed life into an enhanced virtual-reality show. This has served, on the one hand, to blur the boundaries between self and simulated experience, evoking a more immediate, […]

Karen Harverson The power of advertising on television is uncontested but so far only big business can afford the medium. The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is now offering small and medium enterprises the opportunity to buy airtime at reduced rates for six “We believe that the television exposure will boost their businesses sufficiently to […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift CRICKET is big business. You only have to weigh the R5- million Standard Bank are going to pour into the one- day game over the five years from the start of the 1996-97 season to gauge that. The massive sponsorship will back the national team in all one-day internationals in this country […]

Jack Rampou The SABC is competing with new community radio stations by providing regional language services countrywide. But community stations say they are not threatened and can compete effectively. SABC radio has created extra services for specific language groups by using transmitter splits in the different regions. For example, since July 3, both Radio Zulu […]

Theatre: Shaun de Waal Insofar as Beautiful Thing, at Cape Town’s Baxter Studio, resolves itself without undue trauma to the audience, it is a ”feel-good” production. We come to care about these working-class East-Enders. (Their accents, though, make one wonder whether this shouldn’t have been called Beautiful Fing.) Jonathan Harvey’s play tells the story of […]

Eddie Koch The Cabinet this week appointed new members to the National Parks Board (NPB) in a move that will speed up conservation reforms designed to make the country’s game reserves more relevant to the needs of the rural The appointment of the new national conservation body, made at Cabinet’s meeting on Wednesday, is also […]