Yearly Archives: 1994

Native tongue Bafana Khumalo I HATE them all. My parents, my friends, my schoolteachers and all the other scum who taught me that going to school is a two-year guarantee ticket out of the ghetto. You have gathered that this column is going to be one of those do-it-yourself psychotherapy sessions, haven’t you? “Why do […]

Critical Consumer Pat Sidley CONSUMERS may have noticed a campaign directed at making them “more secure” at automatic teller machines (ATMs). The campaign is cunningly framed to make consumers believe that all the ATM fraud, theft and related crime in general is the consumers’ own fault. Now that the banks are kindly giving its consumers […]

Jacques Magliolo WHEN Albert Einstein said that imagination was more important than knowledge, the South African assurance industry probably thought he was talking about them. The latest Financial Services Board statistics reveal shocking figures for 1993, heralding an industry-wide investigation by the LOA. In addition it highlights how assurers develop new imaginative schemes to sell […]

fight He may be vulnerable and fragile, but Joe Slovo’s political and personal battles are not over yet, reports Phillip van Niekerk A FEW weeks ago Joe Slovo’s battle with cancer took on a very public dimension. A dramatic weight loss and sudden gaunt appearance, brought on by an unfavourable response to new medication, unleash-ed […]

Mozambique’s election results reflect a practical solution to the country’s crises, not moral amnesia, argues Ross Herbert RENAMO’S relative electoral success in Mozambique is a riddle worth analysing. Yet the article by Eddie Koch and Joe Hanlon (November 25 – December 1) does more to cloud than clarify. Perplexed about how Renamo could win a […]

Vusi Khoza and Annie Mapoma HUMAN hands — burnt to ashes and mixed with herbal ingredients — are considered an effective anti-stroke remedy by muti men who use body parts in their practice. This is according to Johannesburg muti shop owner Kessavan Naidoo, a herbalist for 30 years and close observer of traditional healing methods. […]

CHILDREN’S THEATRE: Pat Sidley PLATFORM shoes are hazardous to the health at the best of times, and Janice Honeyman’s Aladdin (in China) proved the point one evening last week, when the empress fell off hers during a dance sequence. The mishap resulted in some ad libbing — and presumably a sore ankle. It was the […]

Trade and Industry Minister Trevor Manuel is pushing hard for better access for South African exports. Reg Rumney reports TRADE and Industry Minister Trevor Manuel, just returned from Brussels, says he is hopeful that South Africa will get preferential treatment for exports in terms of the Lome convention. Manuel was in Europe doing what he […]

Joe Modise and Ronnie Kasrils were the stars of the show at the unveiling of a new SAAF plane, writes Jan Taljaard IT was not so much the aeroplane but the new minister of defence and his deputy that were the real focus of attention. In the first public ceremony of its kind since the […]

African Encounters has moved to Johannesburg from Cape Town, where it received favourable reviews. Ivor Powell takes a different stand AFRICAN Encounters, presented at MuseumAfrica in Newtown under the auspices of the paragovernmental French Institute, is one of those shows that the official representatives of the old colonial governments love to treat us to: seemingly […]