Ivor Powell Shareholder agreements for the consortium that the South African Telecommunications Authority (Satra) has recommended for the third cellular license could make a mockery of the bid’s claims to promote black empowerment. Analysis of the agreements and founding documentation submitted by the Cell C consortium in support of its bid shows that the bid’s […]
Gregory Mthembu-Salter Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma concluded a four day visit to Burundi on Monday, rounding off a remarkable two weeks of intense South African involvement in efforts to stop this tiny Central African nation’s long-running civil war. The week before Dlamini-Zuma’s visit, former president Nelson Mandela had been in action in Arusha, […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION Can there have been a more gratifying triumph than that of Nando’s over the humourless prissmongers who succeeded in having the now famous guide-dog television commercial canned? God save me from ever praising an advertising outfit, but to Hunt Lascaris I bow my head in honour, especially for the way they came […]
Barbara Ludman LIFESTYLE Like most beautiful things, berries often promise more than they deliver. In its natural state, a raspberry is an illusion, a wisp of a taste somewhere just past the edge of the senses. Blueberries look bluer than they taste; mulberries aren’t worth the trouble of keeping the juice off your shirt; and […]
Rupert Neethling Reverse engineering is a digital hot potato. Geeks love it because it lets them study how programming code is put together. Movie moguls hate it because the geeks went and cracked the code that keeps customers from playing Digital Video Discs wherever and on whatever platform they want. The final straw came when […]
John Patterson It’s a little disconcerting. In front of me is a mother of two in her mid-30s, well dressed with a blonde, bobbed hairdo. She looks like an archetypal soccer mom from the wealthy suburbs, probably drives a Ford Explorer, active in the parent/teachers association, gladly volunteers to help out at the school bake […]
As part of a new management plan, the Kruger National park plans to reintroduce elephant culling Fiona Macleod The Kruger National Park is proposing to cull between 400 and 1E000 elephants a year over the next five years to control the elephant population in South Africa’s premier game park. No elephants have been culled in […]
Shaun de Waal REVIEW OFTHEWEEK Showing simultaneously at Johannesburg’s Goodman Gallery are two shows by important young South African artists, but beyond that they have little in common: if one expects some kind of dialogue between Lisa Brice’s Work in Transit and Hentie van der Merwe’s ‘Trappings’, one may be left in a state of […]
Matthew Krouse CD OFTHEWEEK I must have been 10. A difficult age to decide what you want when mother offers you a gift. I chose a Meccano set, my older sister demanded a copy of John Lennon’s album Imagine. By the time I turned 11 I was already bored with the Meccano, but somehow I […]
Shaun de Waal MOVIE OFTHEWEEK We have become accustomed, over many years now, to the sound of old-time jazz – accompanied by those plain white-on-black credits, always in the same slightly ornate, old-fashioned type – opening a Woody Allen movie. Now, for the first time, in Sweet and Lowdown, these jaunty strains signal the beginning […]