GAUTENG HOSPITALS TO CLOSE THREE Gauteng hospitals are to close soon — Andrew McColm, Westfort and Khayalami Hospitals have stopped admitting new patients and will close sometime in early August. The Hillbrow Hospital is to be downgraded to a community clinic by December. PW’S TESTIMONY FORMER president PW Botha is to launch his biography “Stem […]
THURSDAY, 5.30PM THE Congress of SA Trade Unions on Thursday released its diary of strikes to push it demands for changes to the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill. Cosatu secretary general Sam Shilowa told a press conference that the union federation will call a national strike between the hours of 10am and 11am on Monday […]
Government is increasingly turning to business to help kick-start delivery, reports Marion Edmunds THE high-profile appointment of South African Breweries chief executive, Meyer Kahn, to the police service is just one example of a growing trend in government to rely on private-sector management skills to kick-start delivery. The departments of justice, welfare, safety and security […]
tumbles GOLF:Andrew Spencer FOR so many players, the US Open has represented both the pinnacle of a career and the graveyard of future hopes for a second major. It has often been described as the one-off Grand Slam. Ernie Els broke this mould in convincing fashion at Congressional two weeks ago, winning the prestige title […]
The Heath special investigative unit turned its microscope on Mpumalanga this week, reports Justin Arenstein THE tribulations of Mpuma-langa’s disgraced former MEC for safety and security, Steve Mabona, may just be starting after South Africa’s most powerful investigative unit this week started probing his financial management of state funds over the past seven years. Mabona […]
David Ludman RAYMOND CHANDLER: A BIOGRAPHY by Tom Hiney (Chatto & Windus, R150) WERE it not for Raymond Chandler’s drunkenness we might never have had The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The Long Goodbye and the other novels and short stories he gave us. The books Chandler produced in the Thirties and Forties are with […]
South Africa is taking the credit for the decision to relax the ban on the international ivory trade, but animal rights groups are outraged, reports Eddie Koch THIS week’s landmark decision by the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) to relax its ban on the international ivory trade is a diplomatic coup for Deputy […]
The 1997 World Bank Development Report argues that states need strong institutions to meet people’s needs effectively, reports Madeleine Wackernagel THE World Bank is not known for advocating intervention – thus, its World Development Report 1997, released this week, which takes the role of the state as its theme, could be seen as something of […]
elephants When the rejoicing dies down, it will be time for the Cites signatories who supported the ivory downlisting to prevent a new wave of elephant slaughter, writes Eddie Koch THE South African government, along with those of Cites’s 138 member nations who voted to allow Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to renew limited trade in […]
Gustav Thiel In the face of strong opposition from old Transvaalers, Afrikaner leaders met behind closed doors this month to reconsider a plan to launch an organisation to protect their language. The who’s who of Afrikaner intellect and business had thrown their considerable weight behind the initiative, and agreed at their first public meeting in […]