Rehana Rossouw Do-it-yourself policing is spreading across the Cape Peninsula as communities organise themselves to do the tasks their understaffed police stations cannot. The Mitchell’s Plain Neighbourhood Watch has 10 units in the sprawling dormitory town, with membership currently at 4 000 and climbing steadily. Its 400 active members patrol neighbourhoods in Mitchell’s Plain every […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin HOLLYWOOD has enshrined famous composers in romantic=20 titles: Chopin in Song to Remember; Brahms and Schumann in=20 Song of Love; Liszt in Song Without End and now Beethoven=20 in Immortal Beloved. But perhaps the chief influences on=20 writer/director Bernard Rose are Peter Shaffer and Milos=20 Forman, whose film about Mozart was called […]
RUGBY: Luke Alfred THE hoary question of how the Highveld altitude affects=20 visiting rugby teams has never been more squarely in the=20 frame, particularly with the arrival of 15 World Cup squads=20 The results of sides playing Transvaal in this year’s Super=20 10 appear to contradict the truism that “visitors fade in=20 the second half”, […]
A new book, Share Analysis and Company Forecasting: How to=20 Make Money on the JSE by Weekly Mail & Guardian financial=20 journalist Jacques Magliolo aims to demystify the=20 Johannesburg Stock Exchange for the investor and to outline=20 how analysts assess companies. Areas covered include: understanding the JSE; how to read=20 share price pages; outlining shareholders’ […]
A SERIES of spats between officials of the Northern and Eastern Transvaal governments over who has the right to administer the Bushbuckridge area, a tract of land that straddles the two provinces, could escalate into a mini- border war involving two strong ANC regions. The premiers of each province agreed last year that the territory […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin PATRICE CHEREAU’S Queen Margot begins with a wedding and=20 ends with a coronation. In between there is a lengthy and=20 operatic treatment of religious strife and the fall of a=20 If Wagner — Chereau staged The Ring at Bayreuth in the=20 1970s — and Visconti come to mind, the sources of the […]
Native tongue Bafana Khumalo WHY do these things happen to me? I must be cursed. Of all the billions of people in the world, I am the only one who will encounter an alien and the alien will not say anything profound like “take me to your leader”. To other people, yes, he will say […]
Nelson Mandela’s Budget speech last week was co-written by a dozen white female secretaries in Cape Town, a group of female squatters in Gauteng, and some coloured professionals in the Cape. And they didn’t even know it. Call it Rule by Focus Group. The impact of Clinton pollster Stanley Greenberg in the last election has […]
shareholders is a source of disagreement among JSE=20 analysts, reports Jacques Magliolo The reorganisation and unbundling of Johannesburg=20 Consolidated Investments (JCI), which comes into effect on=20 Monday with the splitting of JCI into three new companies,=20 has aroused scepticism among Johannesburg Stock Exchange=20 From=20next week shareholders will own three JCI shares=20 instead of only one. […]
THEATRE: Guy Willoughby THE honeymoon is over, and a year down the line all of us=20 voters — the slapgatte as well as the sentient — should=20 start subjecting the new political order to sharp scrutiny.=20 That’s the premise of You ANC Nothing Yet, Pieter-Dirk Uys’=20 fine new revue at Cape Town’s Dock Road Theatre, […]
# Nature’s own cull more efficient Daphne Sheldrick THERE is mounting public awareness of the nature of elephants. That they are sentient, caring beings comparable emotionally to ourselves is generally accepted. Parallel to humankind in development and lifespan, they have a strong sense of family and are concious of death, and they have a memory […]
Michael McMurray THE Constitutional Court has been asked to rule on a controversial dagga law which automatically turns dope smokers into dope dealers if they’re found with more than a handful of the weed. At stake is the validity of the so-called “suspicion” or “presumption” clause in the Drug and Drug Trafficking Act of 1992. […]
The IMF has forecast a drop in South Africa’s growth rate=20 for this year, reports Reg Rumney International Monetary Fund economists have cut their=20 forecast for South Africa’s growth rate for the 1995=20 calendar year by half a percentage point because of=20 drought. This was revealed at a press seminar held in=20 Windhoek by the […]
This week’s Orkney mine accident comes on the eve of the report of a judicial commission on mine safety, reports Eddie Koch The accident at the Vaal Reefs Mine near Orkney, which killed up to 100 workers on Wednesday night — the biggest underground disaster in more than a decade — is set to push […]
A dispute over provincial borders has degenerated into allegations of heavy-handed tactics, reports Stefaans ALLEGATIONS of intimidation and strong-arm tactics are being laid at the door of Eastern Transvaal Premier Mathews Phosa by “enemies” of his drive to incorporate the Northern Transvaal enclave of Bushbuckridge into his own province. Phosa has denied the allegations, but […]
Prisoners go to court to prevent unauthorised HIV testing, reports Justin Pearce Prisoner Lucas Benny Gae didn’t know he was being tested for HIV. Nor did he know the result of the test until he was told to pack his belongings and move to the A Section of the prison: the single cells which, according […]
An agreement has been signed which allows banks to enter the inner stockbrokers’ circle. Jacques Magliolo reports on this and other changes at the stock exchange Chaos was averted at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange last month, but not completely eliminated. The JSE and the Council of South African Banks (Cosab) reached an agreement to provide […]
A programme focused on illegal immigrants won an Artes award for investigative journalism this week for Weekly Mail Television producer Harriet Gavshon, and Nicolaas Hofmeyr, who directed the episode. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday was flighted in the Ordinary People series. The programme showed police raids in restaurants and hotels; the deportation of an illegal immigrant; and, […]
THEATRE: Di Mannie WHAT is the very best treatment that can be given to someone suffering from Aids or terminal cancer? Without a doubt, it is the support and concern of a loving family. This is the message that shines through loud and clear in the tender, humorous Moira Blumenthal production of Two Weeks with […]
NELSON Mandela interceded on behalf of Dr Allan Boesak which had been ripped off in the Indonesia bank loan bungle
DR ALLAN Boesak’s embattled FPJ suffered huge losses in a $40-million bungled bank loan that lead to the doorstep of Indonesia’s President.
Dr Sibongile Zungu in the Mark Gevisser profile Something quite miraculous happens to Dr Sibongile Zungu, nkosi of the Madlebe tribe, when she dons her chiefly regalia: the rather frumpish, prematurely-matronlike woman, swaddled in a faux-kente caftan, transforms into the coquettish ntombi; flirtatious and swaggering in equal measure. Previously, sitting inside her classically bourgeois living-room […]
Passing trend, ritual adornment or self-mutilation — whichever way you look at it, body piercing is ‘in’. Malu van Leeuwen investigates IN Tsukamoto’s cult film Tetsuo: The Iron Man, a metal fetishist inserts a large tubular bar of steel into an open, self-inflicted wound in his thigh. We may not have reached this level in […]
The points of agreement and disagreement between business and labour about weighty issues are seldom scrutinised together. The Community Agency for Social Enquiry (Case) research agency did just this in a survey commissioned by the Weekly Mail & Guardian, the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob), and the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Business editor Reg […]
Furniture companies’ are beginning to shine on the stock exchange, reports Jacques Magliolo For the first time in five years, furniture companies are performing well on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange dispelling investor concerns that these companies are doomed never to resurface as players of note. Their return to prominence on the JSE board is a […]
Jan Taljaard LESS than a day after a police raid last week, rebel radio station Radio Donkerhoek defied the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) by going back on the air. The defiant right-wing broadcaster sprung into action once more from the same cellar in which station chief Willem Ratte last Wednesday threatened that the station’s equipment […]
Marketing Clive Simpkins GOING to the movies has always been a somewhat ritualistic event. Right from my childhood, going to Johannesburg’s Yeoville “bughouse”, as we used to call it, was a great adventure. Buying “coolies” (cool drinks) and noisily wrapped sweets was all part of the entertainment, as was being daring enough to rest your […]
SAILING: Jonathan Spencer Jones JUST over seven months and some 27 000 miles after setting out from Charleston, United States, 35-year-old Frenchman Christophe Auguin on Sceta Calberson, sailed into the record books when he arrived back in Charleston on April 27 to capture his second straight Class I and overall victory — and the $100 […]
Reg Rumney Labour leaders seem satisfied about the Budget deficit, the figure symbolic of “fiscal discipline”, according to a survey by the Community Agency for Social Enquiry of fifty-five union leaders. This could signal that government leaders, principally Deputy Finance Minister Alec Erwin and Reconstruction and Development Programme Minister Jay Naidoo, have done a good […]
Gave Davis reports at the struggle by woman MP’s to break down the old boy’s club mentality of parliament. AFRICAN National Congress MP Jenny Schreiner leaves Parliament each day at 5 pm. If she’s in a meeting, she excuses herself. If the National Assembly is sitting late, it does so without her. As a principle, […]
Gerald Combrinck ORLANDO Pirates take the ever growing reputation of South African soccer a step further this weekend when they travel to Nigeria to face BCC Lions in an African Champions Cup second round first leg game. To say that Pirates will be stepping into the “lion’s den” is an understatement, because there is no […]
Ann Eveleth ENGEN’S oil refineries are the biggest air polluters in the Durban South Industrial Basin, a Durban Water and Waste representative Niel MacLeod said this week. He told about 200 delegates at a workshop on pollution problems affecting residents of Austerville, Wentworth, Merebank, Isipingo,Lamontville and Umlazi, that Engen produces nearly 48 percent of sulphur […]