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 […]
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 […]
Alfred Nzo’s ministry stands accused of not having made the leap into the new South Africa, reports Rehana Rossouw Minister Alfred Nzo and his Department of Foreign Affairs came in for a barrage of criticism this week from the ANC alliance and academics who charged that it had failed to provide the moral leadership the […]
Justin Pearce The self-appointed management team of Vista University — led by Armscor director Leon Bartell — is accused of stashing millions of rands of university funds to be used in case some of its staff are “chased off” campus. The university, originally the brainchild of Dr Andries Treurnicht, is now battling to transform itself […]
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 […]
Pat Sidley Trainee teachers at the mainly black Colleges of Education throughout the country are seething over the textbooks they are required to study. The books, condemned as “paranoid drivel”, are just one of a number of issues that are intensifying the growing crisis in teacher training. A conference of college of education rectors met […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Feel strongly about something in this newspaper? Want to question a reporter? Want to say something to the editor? Now’s your chance, with a new radio talk-back show starting this week. Mail & Guardian reporters, editor Anton Harber and other guests will be in the SAfm studio with Will Bernard this Friday morning (June 2) […]
Justin Pearce Those who’ve been worried about a return to PW Botha- era broadcasting can sleep peacefully once more. The government’s request for airtime on SABC radio and television is unlikely to get past the SABC board when it comes up for discussion next Wednesday. Although the matter has not yet been formally presented to […]
The upcoming season of labour protests will make or break the labour movement, argues Eddie Koch DO or die. That’s how a union shopsteward this week explained The Congress of South African Trade Unions’ decision to stage a 1980s-style programme of mass action around the Labour Relations Amendment Bill. Although unintended, his statement may just […]
Both the pro-life and pro-choice viewpoints were forcefully expressed as the abortion issue was discussed in parliament, writes Rehana Rossouw IT’S BEEN a brutal time for the parliamentary committee listening to public submissions on the abortion issue. Over the past two weeks pro-lifers have assaulted them with bottled foetuses and gory slide shows of abortions […]
Stefaans Brummer FRESH evidence of South African arms fuelling civil wars in the killing fields of Rwanda, former Yugoslavia and Angola is threatening to eclipse the long-awaited findings the Cameron Commission is about to present to President Nelson Mandela. The report Judge Edwin Cameron, appointed last year to investigate irregular arms deals since 1990, is […]
Justin Pearce Aspirant community radio broadcasters are furious with the Independent Broadcating Authority (IBA) for apparently favouring religious evangelists and rightwingers in the granting of licences. The loudest objections come from organisations trying to set up stations aimed at black communities, who feel sidelined both by the IBA’s manner of operating, and in its choice […]
Mike Loewe For Glenn van Loggerenberg, the earnest and upbeat station manager of Rhodes Music Radio, the angry old days of confrontation are an anathema. The new language, he insists, is sweet, slick music — much like the stuff that is coming through the walls as we Underneath the baggy pants and flowing jersey lurks […]
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the unsolved assassination of Matthew Goniwe and his three Cradock comrades. Jonathan Ancer visited Goniwe’s home town Among the simple graves and the old, weathered headstones one polished tombstone looms large in the Lingelihle Cemetery. It stands watch over the remains and memories of Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, […]
Rehana Rossouw Spanish shipbuilder Joaquin Coello left South Africa on Tuesday night an extremely disappointed man, after months of lobbying failed to secure a decision from Cabinet to give his company a contract to build four corvettes at the cost of R1,69- billion. Coello said he was assured by contacts in the Ministry of Defence […]
Bafana Khumalo With all the bitching about English as she is spoken on SAfm, wait till you hear the Voice of Soweto. It’s promising not to broadcast the queen’s English when the station comes on the air in spring. But in a spirit of reconciliation, the Voice promises not to slam the phone down on […]
Age: Born in 1959 when it was still fashionable to name your children after Eastern Bloc communist leaders. Has this been a liability? Only after he returned from exile in 1990, when even computers were anti-communist and spell checks would advise his name be changed to “Tits” or “Veto”. Present occupation: Minister with a Mission […]
Barbara Ludman EIGHTY percent of black South Africans and about 40 percent of whites cannot read or compute at a Standard Five level, according to a report released this week. In the first-ever nationwide study of literacy, Indian respondents showed the highest average literacy levels. Coloured participants scored, on average, between black and white literacy […]
The land reform programme takes a leap forward as a controversial law seeks to destroy the semi-feudal labour tenant system. Eddie Koch and Gaye Davis report Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom this week published a tough law to put an end to a semi-feudal system of farming that forces thousands of black labour tenants to […]
ANC MP kicks dust in the faces of those who want to stop the Saldanha steel mill, reports Rehana Rossouw African National Congress MP Jenny Schreiner this week hit out at “arrogant” conservationists for trying to stop Iscor from building a steel mill in the environmentally sensitive Langebaan lagoon area at Her broadside came as […]
Ann Eveleth SENIOR Inkatha Freedom Party leaders this week closed ranks around party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and engaged in a concerted damage-control exercise following the untimely leakage of the contentious “20- point plan” last week. While African National Congress leaders accused the party of launching a bid to secede KwaZulu/Natal from the rest of the […]
As Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s adviser, Mario Ambrosini, is employed by the government, but he has been accused of planning to tear it apart, writes Ann Eveleth MARIO AMBROSINI, the American lawyer suspected of masterminding Inkatha’s “secession” strategy leaked last week, is on the government payroll earning more than the country’s Chief Justice. The African National Congress […]
Eddie Koch A SPECIAL police unit this week arrested Colonel Louis Botha — the man who masterminded covert security police backing for Inkatha in the 1980s — and charged him with several political murders carried out at the Sources close to the Independent Task Unit (ITU), a team of detectives who operate out of Safety […]
Pat Sidley WEDNESDAY — D-day for health warnings on tobacco advertising — was an ultra-light affair: * Many radio stations were exempted from broadcasting cigarette ads with health warnings. * Warnings on cigarette packs did not appear after being given a stay of execution * Some tobacco companies simply withdrew their ads from the marketplace. […]
In the wake of our report last week on South Africa’s close relationship with Indonesia, Simon Ratcliffe says there should be even greater concern over our relations with Sudan Between October 1990 and September 1992 I lived and worked in Khartoum, Sudan, for the United Nations Development Programme. I was witness to acts of extreme […]