Barbara Ludman IT doesn’t have the catchiest name or the greatest tunes, but English in Action, launched this week on Radio 2000, may well have the highest listenership in the country — among the under-eights, at any rate. The half-hour programme of songs, drills and word games has been broadcast daily at 10.30am since Tuesday. […]
Gave Davis reports at the struggle by woman MP’s to break down the old boy’s club mentality of parliament. AFRICAN National Congress MP Jenny Schreiner leaves Parliament each day at 5 pm. If she’s in a meeting, she excuses herself. If the National Assembly is sitting late, it does so without her. As a principle, […]
Business considers the March 15 Budget a resounding success, reports Reg Rumney Business response to the first Budget of the Government of National Unity was overwhelmingly positive. A survey of 100 of South Africa’s top business people, undertaken by the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (Case) just after the Budget of the GNU, shows almost […]
SAILING: Jonathan Spencer Jones JUST over seven months and some 27 000 miles after setting out from Charleston, United States, 35-year-old Frenchman Christophe Auguin on Sceta Calberson, sailed into the record books when he arrived back in Charleston on April 27 to capture his second straight Class I and overall victory — and the $100 […]
Some 63 percent of business respondents to the survey vote “no” to the question, “Should the ANC/Cosatu alliance continue?” Seventy-one percent of whites say no, and 39 percent of blacks. The contrast, says Case, mirrors the divisions between black and white business leaders on economic issues like redistribution, and contract quotas for small businesses. Many […]
An agreement has been signed which allows banks to enter the inner stockbrokers’ circle. Jacques Magliolo reports on this and other changes at the stock exchange Chaos was averted at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange last month, but not completely eliminated. The JSE and the Council of South African Banks (Cosab) reached an agreement to provide […]
Justin Pearce How can the provinces turn the idea of provincially-based broadcasting into a reality? While this matter is still up for discussion, the Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation this week presented the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) with a proposal to open up Bop Broadcasting’s facilities as a resource for all the provinces. This plan would see […]
The points of agreement and disagreement between business and labour about weighty issues are seldom scrutinised together. The Community Agency for Social Enquiry (Case) research agency did just this in a survey commissioned by the Weekly Mail & Guardian, the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob), and the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Business editor Reg […]
THEATRE: Guy Willoughby THERE’S a certain sly satiric purpose behind Dylan Thomas’ poetic drama Under Milk Wood (first produced 1953); like the similarly folksy tales of Herman Charles Bosman, which date from the same period, Thomas’ detailed recreation of a little seaside village, Llaregyb, was not intended as soppy pastoral. There are all kinds of […]
THEATRE: Di Mannie WHAT is the very best treatment that can be given to someone suffering from Aids or terminal cancer? Without a doubt, it is the support and concern of a loving family. This is the message that shines through loud and clear in the tender, humorous Moira Blumenthal production of Two Weeks with […]