After sitting among the fanatical crowd at Newlands last weekend, Luke Alfred believes it was a futile exercise WE can surely all agree that the game between the South African President’s XV and Western Province at Newlands last Saturday was a fairly futile exercise. At times the bad tempered, money-spinning event looked almost worse than […]
Cinema Stanley Peskin WHEN, in 1977, Herbert Ross made The Turning Point, it was possible in a mainstream film to deal explicitly with women’s rights, but it was certainly not commercially advisable to explore with any sympathy gender issues and gay liberation. That film was soap-ballet, self-conscious and maudlin. In 1995, Boys on the Side […]
The government is cresting a wave of popularity and goodwill that, unprecedented as it is this country, would probably be just as remarkable in any other. The survey results we publish this week, the findings of a poll of 150 top business and trade union leaders, reveal extraordinary confidence in the ANC-led government after its […]
NELSON Mandela interceded on behalf of Dr Allan Boesak which had been ripped off in the Indonesia bank loan bungle
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 […]