Lynda Loxton Sharp differences remain between the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and the Financial Services Board (FSB) over the planned restructuring of the JSE in January next year. JSE president Roy Andersen, backed up by chairman Francois Tolken and legal adviser Peter Leon, made it clear to the parliamentary finance committee that they thought the […]
Rugby is in the Afrikaner soul: It has De Klerk’s cunning, Boer defiance and the fury of their world cup team. Andre Brink argues that its worst traits still shape the new South Africa
TELEVISION: Luke Alfred ALTHOUGH former Radio Rat Jonathan Handley is on the=20 other end of a telephone, one can imagine his eyes=20 lighting up at the magical sound of “pop”. The word has=20 special connotations for the man who, years ago, penned=20 that eerie local classic, Z-X Dan. For Handley, now in his 40s and […]
Rehana Rossouw THE Department of Foreign Affairs has been blasted for=20 “embarrassing” South Africa by not affording diplomatic=20 recognition to fellow Organisation of African Unity=20 member, the Sahrawi Republic. African National Congress executive committee member=20 Jeremy Cronin, writing in the South African Communist=20 Party publication African Communist, gave two examples=20 of South Africa’s ambiguous relationship […]
THEATRE: David Le Page ‘GOT green chillies, makooooti!” Pertulia Ramaphala’s=20 cry echoes in between sprays of invective directed at=20 the men who harass her character Gladys in the=20 Johannesburg Civic Theatre’s Got Green Chillies Makoti. Gladys is a vegetable seller with a chequered past that=20 includes a private education interrupted by pregnancy,=20 posing as Winnie […]
Reg Rumney For many small businessmen tax planning boils down to=20 declaring half of what you actually earn; employees in=20 the lower ranks of big companies don’t even have that=20 illegal option. Both would benefit from employing a good accountant so=20 that they can participate in the upper-class sport of=20 avoiding — not evading, which […]
South Africa’s input at the UN conference on the=20 extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty won=20 wide acclaim, writes Abdul Minty provides some=20 background to the decison THERE has been considerable confusion and=20 misunderstanding about the Nuclear Non-Proliferation=20 Treaty (NPT) Review and Extension Conference which=20 took place at the United Nations headquarters during=20 April and […]
Alan Morris and Stefaans Brummer IN the new South Africa, the military-industrial=20 complex should expect to find it a lot harder to=20 operate in the covert, money-is-no-object manner of the=20 The government set up the Cameron Commission to=20 investigate the industry after a large consignment of=20 South African rifles and ammunition was found in a=20 […]
As the Rugby World Cup reaches its peak this weekend,=20 Luke Alfred looks at a book which examines the=20 relationship between the sport and life in South Africa IN AUGUST 1992, a dark month for South Africa in=20 general and rugby in particular, a journalist from the=20 Sunday Star wrote: “It is hard to write […]
FORMER security policeman Paul Erasmus has given the=20 first explanation of what happened to Mamelodi activist=20 Stanza Bopape, who disappeared without trace in 1987. Erasmus never dealt with Bopape, but he was told by two=20 of his colleagues that Bopape was beaten to death=20 during interrrogation on the 10th floor of John Vorster=20 Square in […]
Durban’s fledgling centre for the arts is preparing to=20 fly, reports HUMPHREY TYLER MAYBE they should hire lifeguards for the official=20 opening in a few weeks of the Bat Centre beside the=20 water in the harbour in Durban. Vusisizwe Mchunu=20 (mostly known as Vusi), the centre’s project manager=20 and a prize-winning poet, shook his head […]
Anne Eveleth Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom rejected reports=20 that legislation he proposed to Cabinet this week was=20 aimed at privatising tribal land rights, and said the=20 draft Bill would instead provide legal security to=20 millions of impoverished black rural South Africans=20 living on tribal land in the former homelands. Hanekom said the proposed Interim […]
Writing stories on the sex lives of presidents has become a dangerous occupation for Southern African journalists, writes David Lush Just last month, the publisher and two editors of Zimbabwe’s Financial Gazette were arrested, interrogated and charged with an offence which has hardly seen the light of day since the fall of Ian Smith’s Rhodesia […]
Misapprehensions and misrepresentations followed the=20 Irish Republican leader on his visit to South Africa,=20 writes David Beresford There was, it must be said, room for misunderstanding,=20 and misunderstanding there surely was as the Irish=20 Republican leader made a triumphant entry into the=20 Transvaal shanty town of Phola Park on Sunday. “I don’t know who this […]
Pat Sidley dissects the profound — and controversial – – changes proposed for South Africa’s health services ‘A caring health service” is the Department of Health’s=20 slogan describing its work. And it’s been a gruelling=20 five months for its committee charged with starting the=20 The Committee of Inquiry into a National Health=20 Insurance System has […]
Most South Africans have sickened under one of the=20 world’s most skewed and inefficient health care=20 systems. It’s been in desperate need of major surgery,=20 and Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma is to be commended=20 for bringing an extensive, carefully constructed set of=20 proposals to the discussion table a little more than a=20 year after coming […]
Bronwen Roberts FARMERS in the Somerset East area are desperately=20 trying to get about 8 000kg of biltong ready for the=20 town’s Biltong Festival next weekend — but will this=20 be enough? Front page headlines in the local newspaper have for=20 weeks asked: “Sal daar genoeg droewors wees vir die=20 fees? (Will be there be […]
Justin Pearce World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)=20 development blueprints have been lambasted by a report=20 released by the development agency Oxfam.=20 The report says the World Bank and IMF schemes,=20 introduced in the early 1980s to promote economic=20 recovery, deepen the cycle of poverty endured by the=20 citizens of developing countries. The Oxfam […]
Stefaans Brummer A SHADOWY company that was a nerve centre for security=20 police dirty tricks planning in the Witwatersrand since=20 late 1990 still exists as a police front. The company, which operated under the cover names=20 Lamont Market Research and LM Research, shed its more=20 notorious “Stratcom” component in late 1991 or early=20 1992, but […]
THEATRE: David Le Page LARA FOOT has directed a rather noisy silent movie.=20 It’s called Womb Tide, and is masquerading as theatre=20 in the Laager at the Market, complete with a little=20 boer clown, an alternatively vulgar and sympathetic=20 heroine, and a properly precocious child. The filmic elements abound. Brian Webber plays a=20 congenitally awkward […]
Does the defiantly un-PC humour of comedy duo Programme=20 Fluoride deserve a place in the new South Africa? JOHN=20 PHILLIPS reports IT’S 6pm in an Irish pub in central Cape Town and Chris=20 McEvoy and Roger Christian — the two determinedly=20 confrontational comedians who make up Programme=20 Fluoride — are poised over pints of Guinness […]
Rehana Rossouw November’s local government election could be even more=20 chaotic than last year’s national elections in which=20 the Independent Election Commission (IEC) was given=20 only three months to prepare for a poll in which 19- million people participated, former IEC chairman Mr=20 Justice JC Kriegler warned this week. “We were given three months to […]
M-Net should not hide its real results behind its=20 restructuring, argues Jacques Magliolo ELECTRONIC Media Networks (M-Net) produced poor results=20 for the third year running, and directors are hiding=20 behind the incomparability of financial statements.=20 The company’s preliminary report states: “Results for=20 the year ended March 31 1994 include businesses now=20 housed in MultiChoice and […]
A former security policeman opens his bag of dirty=20 tricks. Eddie Koch and Stefaans Brummer report THE State Security Council under former President FW de=20 Klerk created a four-year plan to undermine and weaken=20 the ANC and its allies in the build-up to the 1994=20 Details of the extensive dirty tricks plan, planned to=20 run […]
Bruce Cohen WEB FEET Aliweb’s the key The World Wide Web (WWW) browsers Netscape and Mosaic=20 are the virtual keys to the virtual world — but they=20 only unlock the door to cyberspace. Once you’re in,=20 where do you go? What makes the Internet truly=20 accessible are the search engines that have been=20 established around […]
The dream final — the single mindedness and skill of=20 the All Blacks against the ‘one team, one nation’=20 determination of South Africa=20 RUGBY: Jon Swift IT IS fitting, given the World Cup trials and=20 tribulations of Francois Pienaar’s South African side,=20 that the final hurdle should be in the form of this=20 country’s traditional […]
Ann Eveleth The KwaZulu/Natal government has been accused of=20 dragging its heels over the implementation of an=20 intensive land reform programme worth more than R79- million, while tens of thousands of dispossessed rural=20 residents wait helplessly for the assistance promised=20 them by central government last year. The charges come amid the province’s calls for greater=20 […]
All Black legend Colin Meads has fond memories=20 of the traditional rivalry between South Africa=20 and New Zealand RUGBY: Mark Lamport-Stokes IT IS a fact generally accepted that sport mirrors=20 life, and especially the society in which it exists. In=20 sport, there is heroism, disappointment, high drama,=20 even moments of embarrassment and sheer boredom. Sport=20 […]
CRICKET: Jon Swift PERHAPS the terminally cynical would regard it as a=20 case of putting your marketing money where the mouth of=20 the consumer of the future is, but the R5-million=20 Bakers have put into mini-cricket is just the impetus=20 cricket development needs. The innovation of mini-cricket among the waist-high=20 members of this country’s community […]
Rehana Rossouw HYSTERIA whipped up about people pouring across South=20 Africa’s borders to steal jobs from legal citizens is=20 based on unreliable information and does not take into=20 account South Africa’s moral duty to build a strong=20 regional economy. This is the message from a high-level delegation of=20 parliamentarians and representatives of non- governmental organisations […]
RUGBY: Barney Spender HE IS 24 years old, shaves his head twice a week,=20 dreams of being Pamela Anderson and has only played in=20 four tests but already All Black flanker Josh Kronfeld=20 is getting the kind of notices which would make the=20 best of Broadway producers look up in envy. This weekend, as the […]
Clive Simpkins The communications, marketing and health sectors of=20 countries around the world, particularly in Africa, are=20 failing the most critical test of their expertise. Not=20 simply because it’s a complex one, but because it’s an=20 unpopular one and affects “other people”. That problem=20 is Aids awareness. Latest World Health Organisation statistics indicate=20 that sub-Saharan […]