Sactwu has shown that capitalist investment can work not only for workers, but for their children too. Ferial Haffajee reports SCORES of clothing workers’ children graced this week’s launch of a clothing union’s bursary fund: among them was one who has done particularly well. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel introduced himself as “the son of a […]
games Jon Henderson feels the Sampras factor rather than marriage is behind the decline of a moody genius PETE SAMPRAS’S favourite line from literature is from The Catcher In The Rye: “Don’t ever tell anybody anything.” Andre Agassi, Sampras’s great rival on the tennis court, is from the opposing, let-it-all- hang-out corner. The silent approach […]
LIVE MUSIC: Sam Taylor IRISH band U2’s PopMart world tour kicked off in Las Vegas last week with a stage set as spectacularly kitsch as any of the giant theme hotels that adorn the Vegas Strip. Dominated by the world’s biggest LED screen and a golden arch, like half of a McDonald’s “M”, the set […]
Gary Younge NIGERIAN art treasures are being looted from museums to supply an underground network of dealers, most of them based in London and New York. The multi-million pound trade, which contravenes a United Nations convention on the sale and smuggling of stolen artwork, has left some museums in the country virtually empty. The looting […]
The mopane caterpillar is a dietary staple for many people – and a vital agent in keeping the veld healthy, writes Ellen Bartlett THE larva of Gonimbrasia belina, the emperor moth, is fat and spiny and mottled black and gray. It does not immediately spring to mind as food.But G belina, better known as the […]
Joe Slovo’s handpicked Director General, Billy Cobbett, asked the auditor general to investigate a R185-million housing project in Mpumalanga – and lost his job. Stefaans Brmmer, Mungo Soggot and Peta Thornycroft report BILLY COBBETT, Director General of the Department of Housing, has been fired after asking the auditor general to investigate a multi-million-rand housing project […]
THE ANGELLA JOHNSON INTERVIEW GRACE KHUNOU had barely been in her job as headmistress for five minutes when an angry parent stood up during a meeting and exclaimed: ”But you are only a girl. What can you know? How can you make this place any better after all this time?” The consensus was that it […]
Despite all the criticism, Nkosazana Zuma’s department is revolutionising health care, reports Jim Day DESPITE scandals, unauthorised spending and a history of putting her foot in it, Dr Nkosazana Zuma’s Health Department is systematically revolutionising South Africa’s health-care system. Zuma is blamed by many for the R14,2- million Sarafina II disaster and the trumpeting of […]
Jim Day LITTLE Leboteng Bakada is sick. The one- month-old girl is suckling at her mother’s breast, but every few moments a cough interrupts her meal for a few seconds before she starts suckling again. ”She has the flu,” says her mother, Yoliswa Bakada. ”It is because we stay in the shacks.” Bakada has been […]
FINE ART: Tracy Murinik MAKING the proverbial splash is taken a step further by Bridget Baker in her latest exhibition at the Hnel Gallery this month. The gallery space has been cleared to accommodate an installation, introduced by a placard on a plinth bearing the artist’s academic credentials in front of a large, round portapool […]