If the stars don’t play, the spectators won’t pay to=20 watch the games — and that means less money all round RUGBY: Jon Swift IT IS ironic that the flashpoint between the Transvaal=20 rugby players and the province’s management should come=20 in the middle of Wimbledon. For, at the root of the impasse between the […]
Sitting on a crate in a far corner behind the shelves,=20 a Drum magazine in his hand, Mabutho Dube looks like an=20 ordinary doorman as he buzzed customers in and out of=20 an emergency pharmacy in Rosettenville. The twenty-one-year-old, former Mofolo, Soweto, SDU=20 member is one of two Sibuyile security men hired after=20 armed robbers […]
Ann Eveleth Regarded as the Lion of Natal during his lifetime,=20 Harry Gwala was given the funeral of a political non- entity last Saturday. Earlier claims by the ANC leadership that 70 000 people=20 would attend rang hollow. Fewer than 20 000 people=20 attended, and the funeral was dominated by those who=20 had a deep-seated […]
A Goldstone report urging action against police ‘dirty=20 tricks’ was never released by president FW de Klerk.=20 Stefaans Brummer and Eddie Koch report THE Mail & Guardian today publishes a secret Goldstone=20 Commission report, sent to former President FW de Klerk=20 weeks before the April 27 election, and which urged=20 immediate action to “neutralise” police […]
BALLET: Stanley Peskin I DO not wish to attribute any intentions to Veronica=20 Paeper and her version of Spartacus, but any real=20 interest her ballet has belongs more to the influence=20 of Cecil B de Mille than to either the Bolshoi=20 (strictly socialist realism) or Howard Fast (liberal=20 humanist). What Pact Ballet presents is Paeper […]
The labour ministry has brokered a compromise=20 on the stalled Labour Relations Bill,=20 report Eddie Koch and Marion Edmonds LABOUR Minister Tito Mboweni is set to break the=20 deadlock over the new Labour Relations Bill with a set=20 of compromises that have won broad support from=20 organised labour and also industry on flashpoint issues=20 which […]
Simon Segal finds South African service standards will=20 not cope with an Olympic influx of tourists THE Rugby World Cup (RWC) provided the first major=20 opportunity to rate South Africa’s service standards.=20 The result is less than spectacular. Sid Cohn, a consultant who teaches at the Wits Business=20 School, surveyed 400 local and 400 foreign […]
Gaye Davis IN terms of workload and resources, South Africa’s=20 members of Parliament have to be among the most over- stretched and under-funded in the world. Management consultants hired by National Assembly=20 Speaker Frene Ginwala and Senate President Kobie=20 Coetsee, to recommend ways of re-organising support=20 services for Parliament, will be consulting MPs,=20 management staff […]
HERE are extracts from Goldstone’s report given to then=20 president FW De Klerksome weks before the April=20 Commisssion of Inquiry regarding the prevention of=20 public violence and intimidation. Report to the=20 International Investigation Team. 1. Introduction 1.1 In the first report dated 18 March 1994, the=20 Commission set out prima facie evidence of the=20 involvement […]
Business is seriously starting to turn its collective=20 mind to combating crime. Reg Rumney reports There is little disagreement that combating crime is=20 the top priority in South Africa today. Barely a day=20 goes by without one business leader or another=20 identifying crime as the greatest retardant of=20 investment and barrier to prosperity. South African […]
Producer and promoter David Marks will be ‘coming home’=20 when he takes the stage in Grahamstown. PETER RORVIK=20 THAT veteran mover and shaker of the South African=20 music industry, David Marks, trades backstage for=20 centre stage this month when he performs a collection=20 of his songs at the Grahamstown festival. Well known as a recorder, […]
The products may not be warm or comfortable, but=20 Hardwear is finding a growing market for clothes made=20 of scrap. MALU VAN LEEUWEN reports AFTER four years of obscurity, the curious products of=20 a Cape Town partnership are suddenly getting plenty of=20 attention. Hardwear (real names Michelle Vyncke and=20 Chris du Toit) is a small […]
Shadley Nash Less than a week after the Eastern Cape government=20 repeated its promise that 1995 was the year of=20 delivery, it endorsed proposals that will take food out=20 of children’s mouths. Cutbacks to the provincial government school feeding=20 schemes have been announced by the province’s Health=20 and Education Ministry in the face of acknowledgments=20 […]
Trevor Steele-Taylor THE 17th Durban International Film Festival, which=20 opens its doors this Sunday, celebrates both the=20 centenary of world film and the anniversary of a=20 democratic South Africa. In line with the declining=20 state of local cinema, however, it is the international=20 arena which is better represented. Opening with Antonia Bird’s much praised Priest, […]
In a second extract from his book, former security=20 police ‘dirty tricks’ expert Paul Erasmus tells how he=20 put the brakes on singer Roger Lucey’s career Whatever happened in that office God and the cops will only know. The law has ways of keeping it quiet So that nothing at all will show But at […]
The parliamentary ethics subcommittee is divided=20 over MPs’ outside financial interests, write=20 Eddie Koch and Marion Edmunds STRONG pressure for South African MPs to continue=20 earning lucrative salaries on top of their pay from=20 Parliament is coming from inside an ethics subcommittee=20 set up to devise rules on the controversial issue. Six of nine MPs […]
Chris Louw MOVEABLE FEAST TO me, the Fountains valley near Pretoria holds merry=20 memories of late-night revelry after our newspaper –=20 the late Oggendblad — had been put to bed. That was=20 more than 20 years ago, but I still hear the sounds of=20 songwriter Koos du Plessis, then an unknown sub-editor,=20 singing Kinders van […]
Indian economic involvement in South=20 Africa has mushroomed. Reg Rumney reports The purchase by Indian brewery United Breweries=20 Investments (UB) of a 30 percent stake in National=20 Sorghum Breweries — reportedly for R70-million — is=20 the most visible sign of the growing economic co- operation between South Africa and India. UB had previously bought Mabula […]
Jacques Magliolo DESPITE growing local and international competition in=20 the electronics market, Johannesburg Stock Exchange- listed Log-Tek produced enviable results for its=20 financial year to end-April 1995.=20 Earnings per share climbed by a spectacular 138 percent=20 to 57,5 cents a share and a dividend of 17 cents (1994:=20 eight cents) was declared. This is a […]
Win or lose on the field, the South African under-19=20 team’s tour to England is a victory for development CRICKET: Rupert Cox RUGBY may have stolen cricket’s thunder as far as the=20 media spotlight is concerned in South Africa, but when=20 it comes to development and expansion of the respective=20 games, Ali Bacher and the […]
Gaye Davis DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki has pledged that a woman=20 will be first choice to fill any minister’s or deputy=20 minister’s post that becomes vacant in future. Mbeki made the commitment when addressing women from=20 NGOs countrywide, who gathered at Midrand last weekend=20 in preparation for a global forum on women, which=20 starts in […]
FINE ART: Ivor Powell AS a child, I used to play a detective game without any=20 real rules. All you had to do was wander around in the=20 veld examining scraps of paper, .rusted tins, the=20 occasional used condom, crumpled cigarette packets,=20 leaking batteries … all of which became clues to a=20 fictional crime. The […]
Chiefs choose the cash over loyalty to IFP leader=20 Mangosuthu Buthelezi, but the lure of parliamentary=20 payment is stronger, write Mehlo Mvelase and Ann=20 T HE Inkatha Freedom Party has pledged an all-out=20 battle to halt the implementation of the controversial=20 Renumeration of Traditional Leaders Act passed in=20 Parliament last week, but rumblings on the […]
Jacques Magliolo THE March 1995 Reserve Bank Bulletin outlines a number=20 of interesting South African stock market trends which=20 suggest that all major sectors have reached maturity=20 and are facing a sideways movement. Using an index of 100 for 1990, the following trends=20 were determined: * Industrial shares have reached maturity. After the=20 1987 stock […]
Marion Edmunds POLITICAL parties have launched a massive manhunt for=20 50 000 politicians. Their talent scouts are trawling=20 townships, suburbs and villages this month to find=20 ideal candidates for the local government elections.=20 All the major political parties have started screening=20 potential candidates and all want the best of local=20 talent for themselves. The exact […]
Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom, with the aid of=20 some sharp advisers from non-government organisations,=20 has had an uncanny run of success in dealing with an=20 issue that some have called the country’s seismic fault=20 — one that threatens those who dare to cross it with=20 tremors from both the left and right. But indications […]
Anne Eveleth South Africa’s first 24-hour Aids care centre has=20 opened in Durban, marking the culmination of five=20 months of determined effort by a dozen people whose=20 lives have been directly affected by the virus. The Durban Aids Care Centre aims to provide a “friendly=20 service” to the Aids and HIV community — and hopes […]
Rainbow volk It really was a motley collection of organisations that=20 came forward to represent the volk at their meeting=20 with Nelson Mandela last week — they ranged from the=20 Verkennersbeweging to Dames Aktueel and Jong Dames=20 Dinamiek, and from the Vereniging van Oranjewerkers to=20 the SA Voetplaat-Personeel Vereniging. What interested=20 the manne in the […]
Justin Pearce and Jonathan Ancer Nico van Burick, acting editor of TV1’s Agenda, has=20 resigned with effect from next week — but seems likely=20 to stay on at the SABC for a further month. His resignation comes five months after the revelation=20 that he had been a commanding officer in the citizen=20 force propaganda unit […]
Has-beens tbey may be, but FRED DE VRIES found it hard to remain cynical talking to John Lodge of The Moody WAY back in 1967, a five-piece band from Birmingham recorded that song, the song which would, in time, become as famous, as loved and as loathed as Stairway to Heaven or Hey Jude. Just […]
South African broadcasters have been caught unawares by=20 Rupert Murdoch’s purchase of southern hemisphere rugby=20 broadcasting rights, reports Justin Pearce Rupert Murdoch’s purchase of the television rights to=20 southern hemisphere rugby has caught the South African=20 broadcasting world unawares, with the Independent=20 Broadcasting Authority and the SABC still searching for=20 an effective response to a […]
It has been a bad week for Derek Hanekom with=20 opposition to his land reforms coming from several=20 fronts, writes Eddie Koch LAND reform has come under siege from four fronts as=20 officials battling to reshape apartheid’s rural=20 geography were hit this week by the simultaneous=20 prospect of land invasions from labour tenants, civil=20 disobedience […]