Mira Nair, director of the controversial Kama Sutra, has moved to Cape Town. She spoke with DAVID BERESFORD THE story is told of how one of South Africa’s most powerful black women was involved in a minor traffic accident with a white motorist recently. Mamphela Ramphele, vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town, former director […]
Janet Suzman’s production of The Cherry Orchard, featuring an SA cast, is a huge critical success in Britain. HAZEL FRIEDMAN reports IT is firmly rooted in South African soil. But Janet Suzman’s production of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard has received rave reviews after it opened last weekend in Britain. The production – the Russian […]
Hazel Friedman `THE most godawful-looking site at the Loeries.” This is how co-founder of the Mail & Guardian, eM&G editor and compulsive surfer Irwin Manoim describes his website, which won a Loerie for best website design. This is the first time that an editorial design has won an advertising award – and probably the last, […]
INDUSTRIAL participation, in the form of offset deals, is being negotiated to help strengthen South Africa’s industrial base. The government wants multinationals to invest in projects that will fill the technological gaps or meet the training needs to make industry more competitive. Offset deals for all government contracts worth more than $10-million are now obligatory. […]
Mick Cleary THE 1997 British Lions could not be further removed from their celebrated battling ancestors. The game has moved on and the Lions are hell-bent on moving with it. While it’s true that the Lions need to have more edge and tightness in their forward play, their primary concern as they swing towards the […]
Richard Saunders FOLLOWING the controversy over the unsuccessful attempt to introduce a social clause to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) structure last year, new options for guaranteeing worldwide minimum labour standards are being set by opponents of the clause. The latest initiatives are led by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), whose members met in Geneva […]
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FW DE KLERK has obviously decided his golf game is more important than his place in history. How else does one explain the desertion of the political wisdom that was so manifest on February 2 1990, when he seemed to have the world at his feet? Surely this petty politician railing against the Truth and […]
As the profile of the distance-education student changes, new problems and difficulties are arising which must be addressed if the courses are to succeed Tamar Kahn A TAXI-DRIVER from KaNyamazane, a shopkeeper from Cape Town and a teacher from Tzaneen might not appear to have much in common. But over the years, hundreds of thousands […]
With last week’s departure of several top SABC-TV news bosses, this week witnessed a changing of the guard. FERIAL HAFFAJEE reports SABC television’s new editor-in-chief Allister Sparks was in before eight on Tuesday morning, his first day on the job, and chaired his first news meeting just minutes later. By noon, former editor-in- chief Joe […]