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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reg Rumney So far, labour relations look calmer than they have=20 been in previous years, despite union protest action=20 over the Draft Labour Bill. Wage increases this year are likely at least to match=20 inflation of 10 to 11 percent and in some cases outpace=20 Until the Draft Labour Bill heightened tensions, labour=20 relations seemed […]
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 […]
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 […]
Movable Feast ON a cold, wet and windy winter’s night, we drove along=20 a lane next to Cape Town’s Liesbeeck River and ran=20 through the rain into the shelter of the Wild Fig. We=20 closed the door to the elements and found ourselves=20 warmly welcomed (or was it congratulated?) for having=20 braved the night to […]
A new Idasa report highlights ministries which have=20 tabled new laws, and those which haven’t, reports Eddie=20 IF Vaclav Havel were judge, Nelson Mandela would=20 triumph. The playwright and premier of the Czech=20 Republic believes that reconstruction in his country is=20 not about replacing socialism with capitalism, or=20 poverty with wealth, but “about truth, how […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Dan Mofokeng, Gauteng Minister for Local Government and=20 Housing, in the Mark Gevisser Profile One of Dan Mofokeng’s colleagues, who clearly has other=20 things on his mind at the moment, describes the Gauteng=20 Minister for Local Government and Housing as the prop- forward of the ANC team in the province: “He is not the=20 most […]
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 […]
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 […]
CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser IT was only with her last two encores, a hilarious=20 performance of Victor Herbert’s comic Art is Calling=20 for Me and a sweetly introspective rendition of a Maori=20 traditional song, that Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s recital=20 before an overjoyed Pretoria audience came to life. Not that there wasn’t much to admire […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift JONAH LOMU and James Small. A confrontation which has=20 enthralled and excited ever since the tournament drew=20 towards a possible final meeting between South Africa=20 and New Zealand. Lomu is, to quote England coach Jack Rowell, “a=20 phenomenon” and “the difference” in the 42-29 scoreline=20 which condemned the Poms to a play-off […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reg Rumney Like decrepit old age, the end of a marriage through death or divorce is painful to contemplate, but in the long run it could be more painful not to contemplate it. That is where a booklet such as Options at Marriage, recently published by insurance giant Old Mutual, comes in. The booklet spells […]
Justin Pearce South African aromatherapists have approached the Constitutional Assembly to try to gain official recognition for their profession. A submission to the Constitutional Assembly made by Moyra Metcalfe, chairperson of the Association of Aromatherapists Southern Africa argues “that each individual has a right to choose and maintain natural, holistic health. “He should be given […]
Jane Starfield DIVIDED SISTERHOOD: Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession, by Shula Marks (Witwatersrand University Press, R82,00) SHULA Marks’ study of the South African nursing profession is as pioneering as her other monographs and collections of essays have been. Her attention to gender was notably voiced in Not Either an Experimental […]
Shadley Nash The greasy details of rivalry between two take-away pizza traders emerged unwittingly in an unlikely place this week — the rape trial of a self-confessed The Port Elizabeth Supreme Court — sitting for the rape trial against satanist Frans du Toit who, in a third rape confession, admitted to raping a 20-year-old woman […]
A new chain of bookshops is due to start up soon, with its first stores in the Gauteng area. Shaun de Waal A NEW bookshop chain is to open in South Africa, run by three former employees of Exclusive Books. To be called Facts & Fiction, it is just getting off the ground, with the […]
THEATRE: David le Page THE spirit of Roy Campbell currently haunts the Alexander Theatre, in writer and director Anthony Akerman’s play Dark Outsider. But it is not the robust and extravagant ghost we might expect. In the second act Uys Krige, played charmingly by Alex Ferns, hails in a splendid bon mot the experience of […]
Censorship under the new Constitution is to face its first major challenge as Hustler magazine loses patience with the Publications Control Board’s approach to what may or may not be displayed, reports Justin South Africa’s dinosaur censorship legislation is to face its first challenge in the Constitutional Court when Hustler magazine contests the banning of […]
The Life Offices Associations’ Paul Truyens responds to Cheryl Carolus’ criticisms of the industry’s policy on HIV testing THE insurance industry is very aware of the whole issue surrounding Aids and the plight of HIV positive people. In order to put the industry’s dilemma into perspective though, it is necessary to go back to the […]
Kiri Te Kanawa is visiting South Africa at the height of her ability to draw crowds. Coenraad Visser reports IT was with a sense of relief that one greeted Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at her first encounter with the press shortly after her arrival in Johannesburg. She currently limits her public appearances to about 18 […]
ALTHOUGH many white farmers have reacted with outrage to Derek Hanekom’s new Land Reform Bill for labour tenants, the draft law is neither new nor revolutionary. It is, in fact, based on regulations that are common in free market societies, writes Andra The Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Bill, published in the Government Gazette this month […]
TELEVISION: Justin Pearce ‘WE’LL be okay as long as we stay in the light,” insists FBI Agent Dana Scully — a trifle optimistically, perhaps, as she cowers beneath the guttering lightbulb connected to a generator that’s about to run out of petrol in the middle of the night in an impenetrable forest inhabited by swarming […]
MPs’ criticism of the Department of Foreign Affairs has provoked an extraordinary reaction from Rusty Evans, writes Rehana Rossouw IN an unprecedented broadside by a civil servant on parliament, Foreign Affairs Director General Rusty Evans has attacked criticism of his department from MPs as an effort to “discredit and destroy the political leadership and the […]