Michael Odell CD OFTHEWEEK You’ll have noticed that writing poetry in coffee shops, plundering jumble-sale threads and being love-battered yet plucky is now “in”. But just four years ago, if you were a female R&B act, you wore knee-high leather boots and demanded regular oral sex and housekeeping from your “nigga”, safe in the knowledge […]
Jon Henley in Paris As controversy rages in Britain and South Africa over the Steven Maisels’s sexy Sophie Dahl advertisement for Opium perfume, French feminists are turning up the heat in their war on a national ad industry that has long considered bare breasts an appropriate way to advertise anything from lawnmowers to low-fat margarine. […]
Let us also be clear that, as of now, there is no proof of wrongdoing on the arms deal by any current or former member of the ruling party.
MEDICAL aid schemes have threatened to delete drugs from the lists of medicines they will cover for members unless pharmaceutical companies pay them substantial kickbacks, according to a report in The Star newspaper. Doctors will also be encouraged to get in on the act, with financial rewards for those who prescribe the drugs on the […]
Some South Africans get so much from polarisation that they cannot imagine a future without it.
Port Shepstone municipal councillors were subjected to a lie detector test as they were all under suspicion of voting for the wrong mayoral candidate.
Disgruntled residents in greater Hazyview claim that disaster housing was allocated to either relatives or friends of ANC councillors.
The courts are set to rule on an unholy leadership row that is tearing apart the African Gospel Church.
The presidential election run-off that took place in Ghana on December 28 will go down as one of the most exciting days in the nation’s history.
Andrew Smith ventures into Silicon Valley to meet the technoseers who think supercomputers have made man obsolete.