Staff Reporter

The Azanian Students=D5 Movement is misusing Steve Biko=D5s name for its= own sectarian interests, argues Mamphela Ramphele THE tensions around the Azanian Students Movement=D5s (Azasm)=20 campaign to have white teachers in schools previously set aside for black= people replaced by unemployed black teachers, in the name of black=20 solidarity, is a chilling reminder of the […]

Aspasia Karras talks to Dr Danisa Baloyi about the challenges facing the=20 chairwoman of the Gauteng Tender Board Dr Danisa Baloyi=D5s appointment as chairwoman of the Gauteng Tender=20 Board could be seen as the culmination of an active mobilising presence in= the black business community, where she has been central in the formation= of such […]

Part museum, part holiday resort, Lesedi Cultural Village offers a =D4Real= African Experience=D5. JUSTIN PEARCE asks: What=D5s wrong with=20 THE American tourists are in traditional dress: golf shirts and polyester= slacks. Looking quietly excited and a touch apprehensive, they meet Xolani= Dludla, their guide, at the reception area of Lesedi Cultural Village and= follow him […]

A =D4Save the Cape=D5 campaign is being instituted to defuse increasing ra= tension in the Western Cape, reports Rehana Rossouw Racial tension could explode in the Cape if nothing is done to reduce=20 antagonism between coloureds and Africans, religious leaders and=20 politicians warned this week. Rallying behind a call to =D2Save the Cape=D3, the Anglican […]

Humphrey Tyler THERE is just a hint of appealing eccentricity about Funky=D5s restaurant i= the new Bat Centre at the side of the harbour in Durban. This is not just= because the waiters wear funny waistcoats. Maybe it=D5s because the buildin= is not quite finished. There are no balustrades on the steps you climb to […]

An inability to communicate their grievances lies behind the nurses=D5 stri= reports Pat Sidley Florence Nightingale died at Baragwanath Hospital this week, after a long= struggle against apartheid medicine and wages, and a terminal dose of=20 broken promises. A striking nurse shovelled soil onto the coffin when she told a radio=20 interviewer that Nightingale =D2had […]

Gavin Du Venage THE Eastern Cape may lose another provincial minister after Health=20 Minister Dr Gertrude Thomas came under attack from within her own=20 party, the ANC, over the poor performance of her ministry. If she goes, Thomas will be the third Eastern Cape cabinet member to lose= her job since the establishment of the […]

Slam poetry is all about liberating the audience, discovered MALU VAN=20 LEEUWEN at its first hearing in Cape Town THE staid conventions of the poetry reading received their first warning of= a shake-up last week when slam poetry =D1 a concept imported from the=20 United States and Canada by two Cape Town enthusiasts =D1 was […]

Philippa Garson EVERY day, thousands of children rise before daybreak to begin an=20 arduous working day. Whether it is on farms, in coalyards, on streets=20 selling newspapers, hawking vegetables or prostituting, children are=20 labouring all over the country. The occasional case of abuse of working children may reach the media, but= for the most, the […]

Last week=D5s IBA report could lead to the closure of Bop Broadcasting=20 services, writes Neil Bierbaum Bop Broadcasting Corporation is to lose its television and radio services a= a result of the Independent Broadcasting Authority report. BopBC=D5s=20 television and radio services will be closed if the IBA=D5s recommendations= regarding the TBVC broadcasters are accepted by […]

Gaye Davis THE rumblings began almost as soon as the survey teams hit the=20 cobblestones in the Parliamentary precinct. It was, said Dr Mamphela Ramphele, director of Idasa=D5s Public Information= Centre (PIC), a historic opportunity for MPs and senators to prove they=20 were really as transparent and accessible to the electorate as they claimed= to […]

Reg Rumney South African textile exports last year surged by around 31 percent,=20 compared to calendar 1993, to R1,5-billion. Nonetheless, as the Textile Federation=D5s August 1995 Textile Watch=20 comments, textile export statistics are a microcosm of what is wrong with= South Africa=D5s foreign trade. Textile exports remain mostly commodity- based and, therefore, vulnerable to volatile […]

THEATRE: David Le Page KARNAVAL, at the Johannesburg Civic, is a reminder that one of South=20 Africa=D5s great dramatic talents is hiding inside Evita Bezuidenhout. Twen= years old, it remains poignant and very funny. Though it was undoubtedly=20 more outrageous in its language, and politically provocative, in the=20 Seventies, the loss of those resonances serves […]

Neil Bierbaum=20 Residents and owners of flats and townhouses could face difficulties if the= opt for satellite television. Most municipal by-laws only allow for one aerial stack or satellite dish.= However, existing units do not have the correct wiring to carry the high=20 frequency (IF) signal from a satellite dish to the Integrated Receiver=20 Decoder […]

Shaun de Waal AT the James Phillips Memorial Concert at Mega Music in Johannesburg=20 this weekend, you will be able to hear a wide variety of bands paying=20 tribute to the late songwriter and bandleader; you will also be able to=20 contribute to the Sunny Skies Trust =D1 raising money to cover medical bill= =D1 […]

Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings take issue with Eddie Webster=D5s=20 social democracy SOCIAL democrats must come out of the closet, says sociologist Eddie=20 Webster in a recent article (M&G August 18 to 24). Indeed they should.=20 But Webster=D5s vision of social democracy is an impoverished one. His=20 enthusiasm for the labour movement seems to have […]

Steuart Wright ALMOST 160 illegal squatters who received confused messages from=20 politicians including President Nelson Mandela about their future were=20 charged with contempt of court this week. The squatters, from Mandela and Slovo Parks outside Umtata, are accused=20 of defying a court order compelling them to leave their piece of prime land= In June they […]

Marion Edmunds =D4NO comment,=D3 was the response from Auditor General Henri Kleuver =20 and the chair of the Parliamentary Portfolio Finance Committee, ANC MP=20 Gill Marcus, this week when asked if they had faith in the financial=20 management of those provincial governments which have inherited bits=20 and pieces from the former TBVC states.=20 The Democratic […]

Amendments to the Income Tax Act cut back on the loopholes to which=20 firms have become accustomed. Karen Harverson reports A tax loophole, which effectively meant Inland Revenue made a loan to the= taxpaying public, has been stopped.=20 This was one of the 1995 amendments to the Income Tax Act, passed in=20 July and reviewed […]

SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe THE South African team, which assembles on Monday in preparation for=20 the Africa Nations Cup finals which take place in South Africa from=20 January 13 to February 3 next year, know that they have a momentous task=20 ahead of them. This week they were drawn in a group with Cameroon, Egypt and […]

If centralism dominates the new Constitution, we will have wasted an=20 opportunity for grassroots empowerment, argues IFP MP Farouk Cassim IS THE most memorable epoch in the history of Africa about to be=20 witnessed with the finalisation of the Constitution of the new Republic of= South Africa? (The Second Republic?) Will our Constitution provide, in […]

ACRIMONY at the women=D5s forum at Huairou has provided an unhappy=20 prelude to the United Nations women=D5s conference which opened in=20 Beijing on Monday.=20 The forum is made up of hugely diverse non-governmental women=D5s=20 organisations. They have come as legitimate pressure groups, invited under= the UN banner, to press their interests at the Beijing conference. […]

Rehana Rossouw CAPE TOWN either has an Olympic bid which benefits the poor, or the=20 Games will not take place in the city in 2004, a coalition of organisations= has warned. Slamming the initiative as a =D2big business bid=D3, the Coalition for=20 Sustainable Cities (CSC), representing 35 trade union, political,=20 environmental and development organisations, this […]

CINEMA: Justin Pearce THERE=D5S something strangely fortuitous about the South African release=20 of Before the Rain coinciding with Nato=D5s long-awaited decision to slap= Serbia on its blood-spattered wrists. The film is, after all, an examinatio= n of=20 the relationship =D1 or, rather, the lack of relationship =D1 between Weste= Europe and the Balkans at a […]

Neil Bierbaum Times Media Limited is to transfer its M-Net shares to holding company=20 Omni Media =D1 part of an empowerment scheme which will also free TML=20 to invest in electronic media. The planned transfer of the shares will also clear the way for Omni Media= unbundling. Inside sources claim that Omni shareholders are prepared […]

With a draft Bill banning almost all child labour about to be presented to= the Cabinet, trainee journalist Fumane Diseko posed as a child labourer,=20 and ended up being fired without pay Fumane Diseko It is 6.30 in the morning at a petrol station in Leandra. More than 35 peop= stuff themselves into the back […]

Swiss director Daniel Schmid grew up in the family hotel =D1 now a=20 recurrent image in his films, writes TREVOR STEELE-TAYLOR =D4I WAS The American Friend,=D3 Swiss film director Daniel Schmid told us= over lunch in Johannesburg. =D2It was me that Bruno Ganz killed in the=20 subway.=D3 The film he referred to is Wim Wenders=D5 […]

THREE Members of Parliament have contacted the Mail & Guardian about=20 last week=D5s story on absenteeism in the National Assembly. The African National Congress=D5 David Dalling has pointed out he has been= absent because of major surgery to his foot. The failure of this surgery ha= prevented his return and forced him to have a […]

Shaun de Waal NEIL YOUNG: Mirror Ball (Warner Bros) ON this magnificent album, the godfather of grunge teams up with some of=20 his godchildren, namely Pearl Jam. Less eccentric than last year=D5s Sleeps= with Angels, this is deceptively simple rock=D5n=D5roll exactly as it shoul= d be=20 =D1 three-chord-wonders (one after another), tangled in Young=D5s wailing,= […]

If enough money can be raised, Kruger Park elephants will be relocated=20 instead of culled next year, writes Eddie Koch THE controversial elephant cull in the Kruger Park will stop next year if= the National Parks Board succeeds with an ambitious plan to raise funds=20 from international animal rights organisations to expand South Africa=D5s= game […]

Karen Harverson The deregulation of an industry may bring about more competition and=20 lower prices but it could also result in increased prices and less protecti= for consumers. =D2Competition does not always result in prices coming down especially=20 when regulated industries deregulate such as the airline and broadcasting= businesses,=D3 says John Ford, senior lecturer in […]

Many of South Africa=D5s representatives have good prospects for gold in th= upcoming All Africa Games in Zimbabwe, writes Julian Drew AFTER International Olym-pic Committee president Juan Antonio=20 Samaranch opens the sixth All Africa Games in Harare next Wednesday=20 South Africa=D5s 407-strong team is expected to claim a sizable proportion = the available medals over […]