MARIKE DE KLERK won’t be lunching with President Nelson=20 Mandela on Friday — she wasn’t invited. Tienie Vorster=20 and Elize Botha will be there, alongside Adelaide Tambo=20 and Albertina Sisulu, at a lunch hosted by the=20 President for the wives of former South African prime=20 ministers, presidents and liberation movement leaders.=20 Amina Cachalia, who was […]
Ethiopian Haile Gebresilasie is challenging the Kenyan domination of middle-distance events ATHLETICS: Julian Drew WHILE in South Africa this year middle-distance track running has been through something of a renaissance, thanks largely to the exploits of Shadrack Hoff and Hendrik Ramaala, in Europe the middle-distance world records have been taking a substantial battering. First to […]
Gavin du Venage GAUTENG Safety and Security Minister Jessie Duarte has=20 been snubbed by magistrates after they refused to meet=20 her to discuss bail conditions for people charged with=20 violent crimes. Duarte asked for a meeting last month to discuss bail=20 conditions, in particular those for people accused of=20 taxi-related violence. The request was turned […]
South Africa has committed itself to an injection of=20 human rights principles into its foreign policy. As one=20 expert argues , there is no simple, mechanistic way to=20 do this. To refuse to have any contact or trade with=20 countries who show disrespect for human rights is to=20 condemn ourselves to a return to international=20 […]
Gauteng Finance MEC Jabu Moleketi talks to Aspasia Pragmatic idealist and communist, Jabu Moleketi, Gauteng Finance and Economics MEC is a living contradiction. In the space of a year, he has evolved from an MK soldier and communist party strategist into a convincing economics planner. Moleketi himself does not see an ideological conflict. “I do […]
The great white poachers of the Limpopo Valley have=20 been taken on by a lone ranger, reports Fiona Macleod Sergeant Barnard — the new commander at the Pont Drift=20 station near Alldays — has declared war against the=20 white farmers, police and conservation authorities in=20 the area who have for years been involved in poaching=20 […]
You’re not going to believe it, but Arts, Science and=20 Culture Director General Roger Jardine, who had penned=20 a prompt answer to our Cabinet Efficiency Test letter,=20 had his car hi-jacked last week — with his reply in=20 it. We await a fresh attempt. The M&G had sent a letter in the name of an […]
Karen Harverson Gold mines serviced by Anglo must be rightsized if they are to survive, said chairman of Anglo American Corporation’s Gold and Uranium division Clem Sunter at the announcement of the quarterly results last week. Rightsizing may involve reductions in the scale of operations at shafts, shaft closures, or both. It is only effected […]
Meshack Mabogoane detects big underlying shifts in black business at the Nafcoc congress There was a strong government presence at the 31st annual conference of the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce (Nafcoc) held this week at Sun The main theme of the conference was how black business could emerge from the sidelines to become […]
Mapula Sibanda AN enraged husband gunned down his wife and her lover=20 in Sebokeng last Friday — and ignited a wave of=20 violence that left 15 people dead. The explosive mayhem laid bare the mounting tensions=20 over control of Sebokeng’s five hostels among various=20 Xhosa clans and Basothos. “I knew the man who died from […]
Justin Pearce As an international campaign to ban landmines was=20 launched in South Africa this week, campaigners=20 expressed concern that the state-owned arms=20 manufacturers should profit both from the manufacture=20 and the removal of mines. It was disclosed this week that Mechem, a division of=20 South African arms giant Denel, is almost certain to=20 assume […]
Shadley Nash Eastern Cape Muslims responding to a call to take up=20 arms against the rebel Serbs in Bosnia are being=20 trained in guerrilla warfare at a secret venue outside=20 Port Elizabeth. Sources have also confirmed that a training ground has=20 been established in Pietermaritzburg and another is=20 expected to be established in Cape Town. […]
The Western Cape has come out tops as South Africa’s most competitive province in a report issued this week on the competitiveness of the nine provinces by the Foundation for Research and Development (FRD). Gauteng ranked second, followed by KwaZulu/Natal, Free State, Eastern Transvaal, North-West, Eastern Cape, Northern Province and Northern Cape. The provinces were […]
A human rights foreign policy is a laudable ideal, but=20 it leads to a minefield of conflicting priorities,=20 writes Danny Titus ONE cannot but wholeheartedly support the Mail Guardian’s headline last week: “Let human rights lead=20 the way in SA foreign policy”. South Africa is moving towards adding the international=20 element of human rights to […]
AS the Truth Commission comes into being, it is as well=20 to dispel some of the humbug surrounding it. There are those who argue that this commission will=20 discover that strange phenomenon called The Truth. Even=20 if we were naive enough to believe that truth was=20 something a group of wise people could find in […]
Gaye Davis and Eddie Koch MARIUS SCHOON is to sue former spy Craig Williamson for=20 R1-million in damages arising from the 1984 parcel bomb=20 which killed his wife, Jeanette, and six-year-old=20 daughter Katryn in Angola in 1984. Williamson has said he wants to apply for amnesty=20 before the truth commission. In terms of the act, […]
Clive Simpkins PALLO JORDAN is emphatic about not privatising Telkom, yet the Post Office — its sister megalith in our communications industry — is an example of monopolistic and bureaucratic business at its worst. I wrote recently that the mail service was degenerating into a non-service. It’s actually got worse. I received no mail in […]
GOLF: Jon Swift IT WAS hard to equate John Daly, the man who held the claret jug aloft at St Andrews last weekend, with the red-eyed rebel who had to be carried shirtless, rubber legged and near comatose to his room at the Sun City But then, they are surely not the same person. This […]
The battle between primary health care needs and the=20 right of the individual to expensive transplant=20 operations has forced a government policy decision on the issue, writes Pat Sidley A NATIONAL policy on transplants is being thrashed out=20 — with a draft at the moment before Minister of Health=20 Nkosazana Zuma. Talks leading to the […]
An agreement by South Africa to store Iranian=20 crude oil has incensed environmental groups and human=20 rights advocates, reports Rehana Rossouw THE oil trade and oil money are probably the dirtiest=20 in the world, and South Africa was soiling its human=20 rights track record and possibly its environment by=20 agreeing to store Iranian oil, say […]
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: South Africa=20 can learn important lessons from the 15 truth=20 commissions around the world during the past two=20 Eddie Koch and Gaye Davis WHEN the Mothers of Plaza De Mayo gather at 3pm every=20 Thursday to bang pots in the centre of Buenos Aires,=20 they highlight a paradox that marks […]
CINEMA: Trevor Steele-Taylor MICHELE SOAVI’S magnificent Della Morte Dell Amore, which has crept on to the circuit at the 8 Cult Cinema in Rosebank, is likely to creep as shyly off the circuit if last Saturday night’s audience of four is anything to go by. Sad — for this is a hugely entertaining and visually […]
Pat Sidley IT’S midnight, you’re on the table at HF Verwoerd=20 hospital. You’ve been told that your life has been=20 severely limited by your ailing heart and lungs. In a shooting on the Ben Schoeman highway, a perfectly=20 good set of heart and lungs has become available — but=20 your surgeon cannot go ahead and […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI’S Sparrow is imitation Luchino Visconti (perhaps a homage to The Leopard) and ersatz James Ivory, in particular A Room with a View, which it resembles on a number of occasions. Sparrow is undoubtedly expensive and opulent, but ultimately it emerges as no more than a dime-a-dozen Zeffirelli film. Here is […]
Marion Edmunds POLITICAL parties will scrum down to the debate that=20 everybody has been waiting for — the federalism debate=20 — next week at an all-day meeting of the=20 Constitutional Committee. Federalism is the crunch constitutional debate, the one=20 that will decide the shape of future South African=20 governments. It was the key point of […]
CINEMA: Justin Pearce THE Brady Bunch Movie plays in with a tracking shot down a street of shops offering body-piercing, cappucino, cellphones, smokelessness — all those fads which define the Nineties, if we are to believe Nineties lifestyle magazines. And in the midst of the film’s self-conscious check-list of all that is truly Nineties, we […]
Eastern Cape civil servants are fighting against a=20 decision to axe about 7 000 government jobs, reports=20 Steuart Wright A SHOWDOWN is looming between the Eastern Cape=20 government, which is preparing to cut its bloated and=20 inefficient bureaucracy, and the civil servants=20 fighting to retain their posts. The province’s 155 613 civil servants were caught […]
Anne Eveleth Pietermaritzburg Mayor Rob Haswell’s call this week for the Durban-Maritzburg corridor to become South Africa’s 10th province — divided by soft boundaries from the rest of conflict-ridden KwaZulu/Natal — has struck at the heart of the incessant demarcation wrangles stalling Durban’s local government process. Won by the African National Congress in last year’s […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift YOU can hardly blame the average rugby supporter for=20 being a bit confused about the future of the game. On the one hand, you have the International Rugby Board=20 (IRB), which meets in Paris next month to attempt to=20 sort out — among a host of things — the=20 dissatisfaction among the […]
THEATRE: Mark Gevisser FAUSTUS in Africa! is a work of inventive genius; a=20 total vision fashioned by artist/film-maker/director=20 William Kentridge and puppeteers Adrian Kohler and=20 Basil Jones. As with Woyzeck on the Highveld, these=20 three collaborators have used a classic German text –=20 this time Goethe’s Faust — as an excuse, really, to=20 invent a […]
Stefaans Brummer More allegations linking Winnie mandela to the 1989 murder of teenage activist Stompie Seipei and other crimes emerged this week as she prepared to sue former President FW de Klerk for a police discreditation campaign against her. Trainer of the controversial Mandela Football Club, Jerry Richardson, jailed in 1990 for the murder of […]
Marion Edmunds President Nelson Mandela’s office has intervened in the selection of Land Claims Court judges in a bid to include women on the shortlist of nominees. Presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana confirmed this week that the office would be asking the Judicial Services Commission to discuss new candidates, despite the fact that public hearings to […]