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/ 16 September 1994

Investing In The Bibles And Bullets Business

Former SADF soldiers are training their old enemies in Angola. To counter accusations of being mercenaries, they are expanding into civilian operations, reports Stefaans Brummer FROM the hilltop an ex-South African Defence Force soldier gave the order. On the dusty plain below a ragtag bunch of adolescent Angolan army recruits advanced, artillery rounds bursting metres […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Disappointment Drives Brits Higher Brits

After severe disappointment at the Commonwealth Games, Okkert Brits has soared back to his best and is aiming even higher next year ATHLETICS: Paul Martin FROM shattering humiliation to glorious victory in the space of a fornight: it’s a Boys Own success story for the pole-vaulting African record-holder and now World Cup gold medallist Okkert […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Popcorn Ain’t For Africa

Media & Marketing Clive Simpkins A DEBATE is on about whether Occidental, Eurocentric, dominantly Caucasian lifestyle and attitudinal trends have marketing relevance in Africa. The emerging answer would appear to be “sometimes” or “partially” but largely “not much”, other than at the top end of the socio-economic scale. In this country this is a miniscule […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Diversity Is Strength For Jang And Newton

Arts Alive visiting pianist Jon Jang unites West and East in his music. He spoke to Gwen Ansell DUKE ELLINGTON, as usual, got there first with his Far East Suite in the mid-1960s. Since then, enough jazz musicians have looked East to staff a big band, from John Coltrane to John Zorn. United States West […]

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/ 16 September 1994

The Show Goes On In Long Street

Justin Pearce A FORTNIGHT ago, Cape Town’s independent theatre types were striking poses of grim resignation and talking about the imminent closure of the Long Street Theatre. Now the expressions have changed — and the shows are going on. The independent venue, which was started earlier this year, recently faced closure owing to a lack […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Jailed Brodders Defend Their Dreaded Locks

Smoking `ganja’ and growing dreads is our religious right, argue Rastafarians. Tell that to the constitutional court, say the prison authorities. Eddie Koch reports DO dreadlocks have rights? “Yo mon,” says Jupiter Jons of the Rastafari Unity Movement Alliance (Ruma). And two of the country’s leading experts on the new Bill of Rights agree. Jons’ […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Comic Terros Never Die

Michael O’Reilly SOUTH AFRICAN troops may have pulled out of Namibia years ago, but deep in the Angolan bush, Rocco de Wet — Grensvegter — battles on. Clad in the brown South African Defence Force uniform and sporting a butch moustache, the photo-comic hero is still waging his one-man war against the likes of the […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Who’s Fooling Whom

Eric Naki Karl Zimbiri, an Azanian People’s Liberation Army fighter often cited as responsible for terror attacks in news reports, claims he is being defamed. Or, at least, someone claiming to be him claims this is the case. Apparently there’s an imposter out there making the real Zimbiri out to be a bad guy. The […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Peugeot May Steer Towards South Africa

Eric Naki THE French car giant, Peugeot Motor Company, is considering opening an assembly plant in the Eastern Cape. The move — which would add another competitor to the club of South Africa’s already arguably overcrowded vehicle manufacturers — was confirmed by Eastern Cape MEC for Economic Affairs Smuts Ngonyama this last week. Ngonyama, who […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Getting To The Heart Of The Matter

Critical Consumer Pat Sidley “AN equal opportunity killer needs equal opportunity management,” says consultant cardiologist Graham Jackson in an editorial in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). He was not talking about South Africa’s employment problems but about the fact that women get less — and inferior — treatment for heart disease. In a particularly damning […]