Ian Clayton Cash-strapped NGOs should not expect much assistance with their funding from the latest Katz commission report. The commission’s proposals on donations to and possible tax deductions from NGOs are to be printed soon – but they are unlikely to result in any major changes. Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel told Parliament this week […]
Last year I was invited to speak at the Oxford Union in my capacity as editor of the Erotic Review. I was also asked if I would like to stage an exhibition of erotic prints to give an extra frisson to the evening’s debate. I filled the august interior of the Gladstone room with explicit […]
David le Page So you’re driving down the information highway (no “super” – it’s Telkom). You’re on your way to a website in Durban, and you decide to pull in to Harrismith to check your e-mail. There, of course, your Cyberhost is cheap, friendly and accommodating – just like the Wimpy. Well, Internet start-up company […]
This is International Women’s Week and even if I wanted to, I could not prevent myself from thinking about womanhood. What is a man to make of women these days? Since the feminists took over, it has become extremely difficult for my gender to interact with females. Once, in a newspaper office, I casually smiled […]
It’s a blazingly hot day in Nylstroom. The blue northern sky glares relentlessly overhead. Outside the town hall a powdered tannie comes up and, pointing to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) banner, asks if this is … She hesitates. Yes, it’s Evita’s election roadshow. And it’s free? Yes. She grips her silent husband’s elbow and, […]
Arthur Koestler raped novelist Jill Craigie. Now novelist Frederic Raphael says it was her own fault. Libby Brooks and Stephen Moss report Jill Craigie wraps her red wool-covered arms around the modern plastic kettle as it boils, to muffle or draw heat from it one isn’t quite sure. She eyes her garden through the long, […]
Simon Caulkin The corporate website was a novelty a couple of years ago. Now it is just another part of doing business. About 90% of the biggest European companies and almost all large American ones now have a presence on the World Wide Web, and the phenomenon is quickly embracing smaller firms. Setting up a […]
The council’s closure of Mega Music is a severe blow to musicians and has left Johannesburg looking even more like a ghost town at night, writes Peter Makurube The Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council has finally unleashed the axe on Mega Music Trust, the body that runs Mega Music warehouse, an epicentre for musical happenings in […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer It is unfortunate that at a time when South African soccer should be presenting a united front to the world, cracks are appearing in relations between the national association and its professional wing. Premier Soccer League (PSL) chief executive Joe Ndhlela last week requested that referee Petros Mathabela be barred after the […]
ENGLAND’S hopes of hosting the 2006 World Cup received a boost on Thursday when shareholders approved the sale of Wembley stadium to a subsidiary company of the English Football Association (FA). The 103-million deal with paves the way for a 320-million redevelopment of the stadium. Another boost followed when Fifa spokesperson Keith Cooper confirmed that […]