Yearly Archives: 1999

Alex Dodd:LANDMARKS In February 1996 I was woken up in Dublin by the sort of phone call everyone dreads getting. “Take a deep breath. I’ve got some terrible news. Anne is dead.” One of my closest and most inspiring friends had been killed in a head-on collision. Anne’s last words to me had been: “Come […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Several foreign prostitutes have been deported from South Africa after seeking police protection from vicious assaults by their local counterparts on the streets of Johannesburg. Prostitutes from as far afield as Russia and China are working in Hillbrow, but many have now moved off the streets and into clubs for shelter. […]

Committed to changing our perceptions, the Centre for Photography looks set to put South African photographers on the map. Steve Smith reports Being an artist these days is an act of dogged optimism, particularly if you hope to make a living. There is little money available, either for private purchase or from government funding, and […]

THE United States has agreed to delegate one of its most senior law enforcers, US attorney general Janet Reno, to head a new binational crime committee with South Africa. The new subcommittee on crime and justice will be launched by US vice-president Al Gore at the seventh meeting of the US-SA Binational Commission in Cape […]

THE DAVID GLEASON COLUMN When is a loan a gift? Does it matter? Well, yes it does, especially when commerce and banks are involved. And I suspect the story I am about to relate may come to feature prominently as the evidence unravels before a special tribunal over the course of the year. Once upon […]

At the scene of their initial showing on the exhibition Smokkel, on the fringe of the second Johannesburg Biennale in 1997, Lisa Brice’s ogling beanbags sat, slouched and a little ridiculous, passively watching the slowly changing facial progressions of a forensic identikit computer programme on the television screen before them. Brice described the piece, entitled […]

Amanda Fitschen The recent announcement by KwaZulu-Natal’s MEC for Finance Peter Miller that his province had managed to turn its financial situation around to register a surplus for the current financial year, compared to a deficit for the previous year, must have startled even the least cynical individual. Some may even have asked why all […]

Artist Barend de Wet has opened a hotel in Cape Town. But there’s still room for art, writes Chris Roper People are used to artist Barend de Wet’s strange takes on art. A while ago, walking through Greenmarket Square, I spotted a display window with two eyeholes cut into its covering. Staring in, I was […]

A COALITION of eight opposition parties in Niger has taken the lead in weekend municipal elections, according to preliminary and partial results released in the capital Niamey on Thursday by the National Independent Electoral Commission (Ceni). The coalition, which has fared better in Niger’s main cities, has captured 318 municipal seats out out 570 districts, […]