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/ 22 January 1999
Camille Paglia SITE SEEING www.nytimes.com The Internet has changed my whole approach to print media. I find it a much more efficient and democratic way to monitor the press. I now have a lot less patience for papers piling up all over my floor. I don’t read The New York Times in its print version […]
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/ 22 January 1999
dispute Ann Eveleth The controversial Johannesburg lawyer who championed the rights of fathers in the Lawrie Frasier adoption saga was last month ordered by the Cape High Court to return his nine-year-old child to his estranged wife in Cape Town. Peter Soller was ordered to return his son to Nancy Soller on December 28 after […]
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/ 22 January 1999
Food: Alex Dodd With places like Mo Better Noodles, Chohk Dee Thai, El Turko, El Cubano and Mezze, Durban is fast becoming a contender for the chi chi cuisine capital of South Africa. Somehow each establishment’s signature feel and attention to detail leaves you feeling like the Banana City’s on the money. There’s a currency […]
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/ 22 January 1999
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer In a compact, white-walled room with a yellow door, a well-worn greyish carpet and small windows covered by rattling venetian blinds, Bafana Bafana coach Trott Moloto laid bare his soul this week. It was Tuesday, the temperature had climbed to 30C by midday at the Esselenpark complex north-east of Johannesburg and the […]
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/ 22 January 1999
Last month, when two Khmer Rouge leaders came out of the Cambodian jungle, the United States State Department expressed outrage at the possibility the pair might not be tried for genocide. It appeared Washington was taking a forthright stand for human rights, properly advocating justice for mass murderers. Indeed, who could oppose such trials? In […]
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/ 22 January 1999
Mpumalanga’s premier introduced Dolphin president Ketan Somaia to Minister of Defence Joe Modise in connection with an arms deal with Kenya, writes Justin Arenstein The Dubai-based Dolphin Group wasn’t just gunning for Mpumalanga’s game reserves when it nailed a secret R25- billion contract with the province’s parks board in 1996 – it also tried to […]
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/ 22 January 1999
Writer Ashraf Jamal has never shied away from epic and dangerous themes. Andr Wiesner finds that happiness hasn’t removed his sting Playwright Ashraf Jamal is flipping through a pad of photographs, and the portraits they reveal look cindered, burnt black and grey by the intensity of their subjects. In one image, a blood-streaked Billy Idol-lookalike […]
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/ 22 January 1999
the ball game The US media is obsessed with impeachment. But the people believe life has rarely been so sweet, says Ed Vulliamy During the week that the first impeachment trial of a United States president this century began in earnest, another record bit the dust. This one concerned the proverbial diamond-in-the-dust, as it happens: […]
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/ 22 January 1999
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni It’s a hot Saturday morning in the rural village of Stinkwater, North-West province. Hundreds of residents and government officials have gathered to honour a group of youngsters committed to cleaning up their village. Stinkwater, near Hammanskraal, is among the 50% of South Africa’s townships, villages and informal settlements which do not […]
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/ 22 January 1999
economy, stupid Beneath the triumphalism and euphoria, a deep unease pervades Middle America, argues Robert Kuttner Yes, in many respects life in the United States has never been better. But there are four notable soft spots in the American utopia: insecurity, holes in the welfare state, inequality and stress. First, insecurity: social critic Richard Sennett […]