Reg Rumney When is insurance not insurance? When it is offered by a company not registered as an insurer, of course. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), in its 1994 annual report, states that it has submitted to an attorney general (AG) for possible further action the case of a furniture company which has […]
Rehana Rossouw People campaigning for the new South African Constitution to promote a Christian state are political opportunists trying to reinstate minority baasskap, said African National Congress MP Carl Niehaus this week . Niehaus — who has a theology degree — was responding to the recent march on Parliament by several thousand conservative Christains demanding […]
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 […]
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Jacques Magliolo reports on proposed changes to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange listings criteria Shareholders are set to obtain greater control of companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from next month. But the changes in disclosure and listing requirements fall short of statements made in a document circulated by the JSE in August last […]
Reluctant to release any of its vast tracts of land, the Defence Force is being threatened with land invasions by displaced communities, writes Eddie Koch THE South African National Defence Force has come under fire for scuttling land reform in parts of the country where the army controls large tracts of unused territory — much […]
The long serving executive office of the Comrades Marathon has resigned. Now it’s up to the old guard of administrators to ‘run’ the marathon into the future ROAD RUNNING: Julian Drew LINDA BARRON, executive officer of the Comrades Marathon Association (CMA), has been at the helm of the Natal classic for the past 12 years, […]
South Africa comes packaged to please at La Villette music festival. HAZEL FRIEDMAN reports from Paris LA VILLETTE is one of those curious cultural monuments that straddle the multiple personalities of Paris. Established during the mid-1980s, it has served as a sort of secular cathedral, injecting a modern multi- cultural spirit into a drab, immigrant […]
It was a perfectly normal lecture until Daniel Zikalala fell through the ceiling. But then, people who know Vista know it as the university where almost anything can happen. And after Zikalala had picked himself up off the floor and walked quietly out of the lecture room, class went on. The incident has become legendary […]
Vista University is an animal with seven bodies and no head. The resignation of the university’s entire top management structure — rector, vice-rector and two registrars — in August last year has left the seven- campus institution floundering with no proper Executive functions have been taken over by a special committee of the university council. […]
Internal divisions in the IFP run even deeper than Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s recent attacks on whites in the party would suggest, report Ann Eveleth and Mehlo The house of cards the Inkatha Freedom Party stacked so hastily last year in a bid to project itself as a broad national party is swaying precariously this week, with […]
Robert Dowse, visiting professor of political studeies ar Rhodes University, rebuts the views of Prof MW Makgoba published in the M&G last week Professor Makgoba asks the question “what is a university in modern Africa?” and appears to believe that they should not be the same as elsewhere. Universities should, he suggests, be transformed “in […]
IT took three days of court argument, three-and-a-half months of deliberation and 244 pages of opinion for the Constitutional Court to re-establish the sanctity of life in South Africa by declaring invalid the death penalty. This week’s decision is a major break from the past. It brings to an end South Africa’s long-standing dominance of […]
GOLF: Jon Swift A HUGE test awaits reigning US Open champion Ernie Els at Shinnecock Hills next week when the South African has to shake off all the momentous events of the past 12 months … and start all over again. In many ways this will be a welcome factor for Els. For, as all […]
Jacques Magliolo Barlows’ latest financial results highlight the benefits of a major conglomerate unbundling its assets and turning a lumbering giant into a lean and streamlined organisation. Last week the group released its interim results and showed profitability unsurpassed in the last decade. With improvements coming from almost all its operations, the refocused Barlows has […]
Shirley Kossick ELECTRICITY by Victoria Glendinning (Hutchinson, VICTORIA GLENDINNING is an accomplished and highly regarded writer, best known for her authoritative biographies of Rebecca West, Vita Sackville-West, Edith Sitwell and Elizabeth Bowen. Her most recent biography — on Anthony Trollope — was published to widespread acclaim in 1992 and re-affirmed her status as a thorough […]
Car sales hit new highs in May — and Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) pushed aside previous market leader Toyota to take the lead in the passenger car market. New car sales of around 20 000 were 42 percent up on May last year, and almost 30 percent higher than April’s figure, according to figures released […]
Bafana Khumalo Native Tongue EVERYONE knows I’m a sucker, don’t they? I have been taken for a ride on more occasions than there have been marches in this country. Every Tom, Dick and Harry wants to take me for a ride whenever they see me. They know they will succeed — all they need to […]
SOCCER: Gerald Combrinck UMTATA Bucks boss Chain Vilikazi refers to them as the unholy three, and by Sunday there will be only two left, because one of either Sundowns or Kaizer Chiefs will be out of the Coca Cola Cup. The remaining part of the pact, Orlando Pirates, face a tough task when they visit […]
President Nelson Mandela has been ill-advised in allowing his political opponents to score so many points around the Shell House massacre. He would have done better to clear the air around that terrible incident a long time ago. What is emerging, at least from the full eyewitness account that we carry on Page 7 was […]
THEATRE: David Le Page PSYCHODELIC Cowboy and Sister Nun is an axe-packing, bloodstirring hour of original music from a band of wild riding East Rand cowboys that would have most audiences on their feet were it not for the chains of propriety at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre. Their rock’n’roll is combined with a story that […]
Displaced South African Andrew Dosunmu — fashion stylist and music video director — is hot property in New York. He spoke to Tony Karon ANDREW DOSUNMU is pacing around his sparse studio apartment in Manhattan’s fashion district, anxious for feedback on his directorial debut music video. There is no furniture beyond the functional — a […]
Stefaans Brummer UNIVERSITY of Pretoria student leaders this week accused the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) of bias against the ANC-aligned South African Students’ Congress (Sasco) during an invesigation into campus NIA agents visited a number of university campuses last month to gather information for a report to Cabinet’s intelligence and security committee on the wave […]
Gavin du Venage DOCTORS at Baragwanath Hospital have begun to arm themselves with chemical sprays to defend themselves against patients, following a number of attacks that has left at least one person dead. Several weeks ago a doctor accidentally killed a haemophiliac patient when he tried to fend the man off. A senior doctor told […]
ANC deputy secretary general Cheryl Carolus applied for life insurance — and discovered how HIV sufferers are The experience of buying our first home has been turned, for my husband and I, into a face-to-face confrontation with the irresponsible and discriminatory way in which the insurance industry continues to deal with HIV and Aids. It […]
Eddie Koch ARMSCOR officials involved in the arms-for-Yemen scandal are offering British defence experts massive fees to give evidence on behalf of the armaments corporation at a Cameron Commission inquiry into South Africa’s arms trade policy. An Armscor team has just returned from an all-expenses- paid trip to England during which a number of prominent […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin JAMES LEVEN’S film Don Juan de Marco offers a refreshingly different viewpoint of a patient/psychiatrist relationship to the grim one taken by Peter Shaffer in Equus. Almost perversely, Leven eschews reality and opts for fantasy. In the course of 10 days, the patient Johnny/Juan not only transforms, with wonderfully serpentine subtlety, his […]
David Campese, the world’s great non-conformist, is facing up to a giant-sized challenge RUGBY: Mick Cleary ON THE horizon the cloud of dust tells of the stampede heading his way. Up above the birds are circling, ready to pick off the carcass. As he has always done, David Campese merely watches and waits. The young […]
The war of words over the Shell House “massacre” 14 months ago has obscured what really happened on the day. Gavin Du Venage gives his eyewitness account MARCH 28 1994. I arrived at Shell House shortly after 11am to do a story on a shooting incident that had taken place earlier that morning. Shots had […]
Age: 22 going on three-and-a-half Appearance: Not to be confused with the other James. James Small is the hot-tempered wing, turned fashion model. James Dalton is the hot-tempered hooker with stick-on ears and a familiar face, who has an uncanny resemblance to a police identikit sketch. Contribution to rugby: Demonstrating that even rugby players have […]
Ivor Powell IT was, of course, a set-up for censorship in the first place. Approached by the Vita Art Now selection panel to participate in their annual showpiece exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, artist Kendell Geers put forward three works. One was uncontentious, a red overall to be positioned where the hanging committee saw […]