Brett Davidson LIFESTYLE At 5pm, Jo Stein heads for De Waal Park, with her dog, Lola – a cute cross- Staffie-Jack Russell. “Lola likes the park best,” she says. “More than the beach, more than the mountain. This is where all her friends are.” The park, nestled on the lower slopes of Table Mountain, is […]
New research shows that casual labour strips workers of their rights, and causes divisions among workers Glenda Daniels Labour market flexibility impoverishes households and marginalises workers from the workplace, according to recent research. Speaking at a labour seminar at the University of the Witwatersrand, Bridget Kenny, a researcher at the sociology of work unit who […]
Paul Kirk The deputy mayor of Durban has been charged with assault after being accused of attacking four teenagers with electrical garden equipment, sjamboks and knobkieries. Mveli Mavundla, the African National Congress deputy mayor of Durban Metro, appeared briefly in the Umlazi Magistrate’s Court this week after allegedly assaulting four teenagers accused of being thieves. […]
David Le Page A dramatic report from the World Commission on Dams (WCD), based in Cape Town, has overturned the long-standing assumption that hydroelectric power is environmentally clean. According to the report, dams often release large quantities of methane gas from rotting vegetable matter. Methane is a 20 times more effective greenhouse gas than carbon […]
Tara Turkington An elderly Free State couple are fighting to return to their home of 65 years, after they were evicted two weeks ago by a farmer who sold all their possessions to pay for outstanding “rent”. David Maarman says he was born on the farm Mostertshoek in the Boshof District in the Free State […]
GregBowes CD OFTHEWEEK ‘When I step on to that floor I’m gonna be all business,” proclaims the voice on the intro to Aim’s Cold Water Music (Grand Central), and from the first notes you can sense that something beyond the usual is surely happening here. This coolly packaged debut on breakbeat’s new major force, the […]
A new book lifts the lid on a slug-fest involving some of the country’s most distinguished scientists Ellen Bartlett Palaeoanthropology researchers at Wits University – renowned the world over for their scientific work – have become such a fractious bunch internally that the university’s management has had to separate the opposing factions, placing them at […]
show ‘reform’ Nawaal Deane Sex, gangsters and robberies are the main focus of articles in the Boksburg Progressive Press, with drawings of dismal prison cells reflecting the gloomy life of a prisoner. The newspaper, introduced as a rehabilitation programme in the Department of Correctional Services’s Boksburg prison, may not interest Rupert Murdoch or Tony O’Reilly, […]
Dale McKinley CROSSFIRE South Africa is a strange place to be if you count yourself as a political activist and/or commentator. It often seems as if this sizeable sector of our population is caught in a linguistic time warp, what with echoes of vain, glorious, nationalist verbiage ringing in our Southern African ears, resistant strains […]
present Ben Joseph Wayne Barker and Claire de Jong have mounted an exhibition at the NSA Gallery in Durban entitled Lost & Found. The work is characterised by bold neon statements, such as Loss, Hunger, Memory, mounted on large constructions of disfigured books and wax. Suggesting the work of some of the pop artists, objects […]