Lyndall Campher THE youth are notoriously fickle when viewing television and the past two weeks of data demonstrate some interesting insights. Firstly, the coloured, Indian and white (CWI) youth and the black youth view different programmes, and secondly the way they view tends to be different. The top ten programmes are: CWI Youth % Fresh […]
Tangeni Amupadhi and Stuart Hess A SELF-APPOINTED “guardian” of street children is due to appear in a Durban magistrate’s court this week to face charges of indecent assault on several children in his care. Reverend Livingstone Jacob, who founded and heads the Children Rights Ministry, was served with a summons this week to answer to […]
Gillian Farquhar TELEVISION journalist Max du Preez has lashed out at the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) and The Flame Lily Foundation, an organisation which represents the interests of former Rhodesian citizens. Du Preez’s criticism stems from a complaint lodged by The Flame Lily Foundation about statements he made in the programme Truth […]
While Sugar Ray Leonard was disappointing America, his arch-rival Marvin Hagler was making a new life in Italy. BOXING: Gavin Evans `HEY-a Giuseppe – come-a da here.” The Italian-American doing the shouting is Lou Duva, trainer of champions, and when Lou hollers, heads turn because he has a mouth on him, and connections, and a […]
Angella Johnson BABIES who survive abortion attempts should be left to die even as they gasp for breath, according to new guidelines for the termination of pregnancy laid out by the Department of Health, and sent to all major hospitals last week. Medical practitioners across the country have been told that in cases where gestation […]
Chris McGreal writes from Kinshasa on the machinations behind the chaos in Zaire THE gatekeeper shakes his head in despair at mention of the leopards of President Mobutu Park. No one fed them, he says, until one by one they disappeared from their cages along with the lions and rhinos. Only a few starving monkeys […]
As different interest groups are called to account by the truth commission, Claudia Braude challenges the Jewish community to confront its role in apartheid THIS piece was born over a year ago as I watched the televised documentary of President Nelson Mandela’s meeting with Dr Percy Yutar. It was part of Mandela’s post- apartheid national […]
THE march of Laurent Kabila and his spirited rebel army through the jungles of Zaire is less a war story than a tale of disintegration. If he had transport, Kabila would be in Kinshasa already, if there were roads. The difficult part only begins when he gets to the capital, when the euphoric crowds that […]
From the Cape Flats to downtown Johannesburg hip-hop is rising on the streets. We look at its evolution and its roots – and at what’s going down in Hollywood Maria McCloy in Johannesburg HIP-HOP is worldwide, or so the saying goes. Well it’s true there are rappers all around the globe – stretching from what […]
Mpumalanga government officials have repeatedly glossed over corruption in their ranks, reports Justin Arenstein INSTEAD of being charged or being held publicly accountable for the widespread maladministration which forced the government to dismantle the Mpumalanga Development Corporation, its CEO, Patrick Mogorosi, was granted a “generous settlement” and a promise not to discuss the issue by […]
done RUGBY: Jon Swift IT was, in the light of hindsight, perhaps too much to expect that this country could hold two World Cups simultaneously. The Fijians, certainly, were not going to allow that to happen and duly donned the sevens crown with a handsome, come-from-behind 24- 21 victory over South Africa in the final […]
THE ANGELLA JOHNSON INTERVIEW PICTURE this as the new corporate logo for South African Airways: a humongous image of Desmond Tutu’s beaming face emblazoned on the tail of the national carrier, with the words “gravy plane” running alongside. This was just one of the numerous items of “hate mail” Peter Vundla says his advertising agency, […]
In his testimony to the Tebbutt Commission, Mangope laid blame on everyone but himself for the violence that engulfed Bophuthatswana in the last days of his regime, reports Stefaans Brmmer IN the old Bophuthatswana, the buck stopped a few desks short of Lucas Mangope’s. If it reached the top, it was handed back down again. […]
Adam Haupt in Cape Town HIP-HOP subculture is alive and kicking in Cape Town. Spots such as Angels, in Green Point, represent the tip of the hip-hop iceberg here. While devotees gather there ever so often to do their thing, the culture doesn’t stop with rap, but graffiti art has been taken to dizzy heights […]
Mungo Soggot SOUTH AFRICA has experienced a massive surge in non-mineral export volumes matched only by the Asian tigers, says Mike Schssler, an economist at stockbroker EW Balderson. Schssler says latest Portnet figures show a 33% increase in the volume of exports that left the port of Durban last year. The port handles a wide […]
The parliamentary finance committee criticised slow Budget reform, but praised fiscal discipline, reports Lynda Loxton AFTER intensive week-long public hearings, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and his team were handed brickbats and bouquets from the parliamentary finance committee for the 1997/98 Budget. “Overall, the committee commends the minister for the manner in which this Budget balances […]
Stephen Gray THE latest number of the six-monthly English in Africa shows a change of policy. Instead of the usual miscellany of learned articles, most of it is devoted to printing primary material that would not otherwise be available to the general reader. This is the very raw material, before the biographer gets to it. […]
president IT is usual for newspapers, in the name of free speech, to excoriate those who resort to the laws of libel. But there are grounds for regret among the most freedom-loving of journalists that the case of De Klerk v Mokaba is unlikely to be heard, at least in relation to the African National […]
Mark Milner in London WORKERS in Europe’s steel industry are not having an easy time. In the United Kingdom, British Steel, rated as one of the world’s most efficient steel-makers, acknowledged it will be making deep cuts in its workforce over the next few years, although how deep it is not yet saying. In part, […]
Oceans ROADRUNNING:Julian Drew DESPITE all the noise about breaking the course record coming from Zithulele Sinqe in the lead up to Saturday’s 56km Two Oceans Marathon, the safe money for the title is riding on Abel Mokibe of Scaw Harriers. Both Sinqe, last year’s winner and South African record-holder over the standard marathon with his […]
Susannah Frankel in Paris CALL it fin de sicle confusion if you will, but something, in fashion at least, is rotten. There was a cynicism underlying many of the so-called high points of the Paris autumn/winter ready-to-wear collections that made for uncomfortable viewing. Increased media attendance meant even fewer real clothes and more bare-faced sensationalism […]
Running, swimming and jumping for joy Malcolm Pringle brings talent and sheer joy to his medal-winning performances, writes Julian Drew AS the surprise package in South Africa’s team at last year’s Paralympic Games in Atlanta, multiple medallist Malcolm Pringle was one of the star attractions at last week’s national championships for the physically disabled and […]
In choosing their one-day squad, the selectors have acknowledged that vastly different skills are needed for Test matches and one-day games CRICKET:Jon Swift IT has come as a welcome revelation that this country can contest a cricket Test against even the best the world has to offer, and in the process, beat them convincingly. The […]
Madeleine Wackernagel THE formation of the second-largest trade union federation this week drew a unanimously positive response, even from its bigger rival, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). The Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa), created through the merger of the Federation of South African Labour Unions (Fedsal) and the Federation of […]
The auditor general has uncovered a sorry tale of money mismanagement within the government. Marion Edmunds reports THE government’s financial management has continued to deteriorate, with irregular spending running to more than R150-million in the 1995/96 fiscal year. Unveiling his annual report on national government accounts in Parliament on Wednesday, Auditor General Henri Kleuver said […]
Mungo Soggot JUSTICE Minsister Dullah Omar said this week the squad of judges and lawyers recently appointed to root out state corruption could be the first of several special units to dispense a new brand of swift justice against public-sector malpractice. The Special Investigative Unit and Special Tribunal, which was set up by President Nelson […]
Jim Day LUCAS Mangope is campaigning hard for a political comeback in the former Bophuthatswana, but so far his support base appears limited to the rural elderly and some disgruntled civil servants. He took time out on Tuesday to face a scolding by the Tebbutt Commission, but for the rest of the time Mangope is […]
There is a possible breakthrough in negotiations between the weakening President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire and rebel leader Laurent Kabila. Chris McGreal reports from Kinshasa ZAIREAN President Mobutu Sese Seko this week opened the door to negotiation with the rebel army advancing from the east, but on terms it is almost certain to reject. […]
A new age of African film dawned at Fespaco this year, reports ALEXA DALBY BURKINA FASO is one of the world’s poorest countries, but it has still co-financed 25 feature films and is the only country that thinks film-makers important enough to merit their own public monument. Two weeks ago, its capital, Ouagadougou, hosted the […]
Kiss your browser goodbye, Webcasting will facilitate easier access to the Net and appeal to advertisers, writes Jacquie Golding-Duffy THOSE fumbling with the Internet need no longer worry as a medium called Webcasting/Push technology will make a dramatic entry into the world of computers by pushing information on to a desktop without the need to […]
Alex Brummer in London BRUSSELS has been rightly concerned that the Boeing/McDonnell Douglas merger is anti-competitive and will work against the interests of Airbus Industrie. But now it has something potentially even more serious to worry about. As Airbus chief Jean Pierson struggles to consummate his plan to bring Dasa of Germany, British Aerospace, Aerospatiale […]
Everything is in place for the Zimbabwe mining industry to take off, so now appears to be the time to invest. Andrew Meldrum reports from Harare WITH earnings of more than Z$7-billion ($620-million) last year and enthusiastic exploration activity, Zimbabwe’s mining industry is booming and looking for more. A big new platinum mine and several […]