Yearly Archives: 2001

Matthew Engel in New York New York was stunned into silence this week a silence that in a normal year would be called shocked, even grief-stricken. The cause was a sporting defeat, but this was no ordinary defeat: the New York Yankees, the most successful team in the history of American sport, were beaten at […]

You don’t really want to know what goes on in restaurant kitchens, do you? You’d be a lot happier not knowing about the fights, the blood, the drugs, the amoebas, the “hypermacho posturing and drunken ranting”. You don’t want to know why you shouldn’t order an elaborate special, particularly if there’s fish in it, or […]

Jaspreet Kindra The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has accused the government of reneging on an election pledge to cross-subsidise the electricity tariffs of the poor. Cosatu was reacting to the National Electricity Regulator’s approval of a 6,2% annual price hike for Eskom the first above-inflation increase in more than 10 years. The […]

Marianne Merten Take sakkie-sakkie, add a substantial dose of hip-swaying rumba or samba steps and sultry salsa moves. What do you get? Jazzing, a particular Cape style of dancing at the heart of a competition currently on in three cities. Jazzing was born at the house parties of the Sixties to shake off the frustrations […]

I have been sent a letter about 62 young Israelis refusing to do military service. I have not heard or seen any reports about them and their plight. I am sure there are many who would be very interested to hear about this stand by these young men. This has a lot of relevance to […]

Niki Moore The disgraced former deputy director general of the national Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Professor Musa Xulu, has turned up as the municipal manager of a small town in Zululand and is already causing havoc in his new job. Xulu was fired from his arts and culture post in December last […]

A nine-month old girl is in a serious condition in hospital in Upington after having been raped by six adult men, who were allegedly all drunk at the time. The child’s teenage mother was arrested at the same time, also allegedly drunk. The men’s ages ranged from 24 to 66. Were they too drunk to […]

While there is justified concern over the shortage of teachers in South Africa, it is ironical that the Department of Education is reluctant to re-employ teachers who, although having opted for voluntary severance packages, are prepared to re-enter the education system, realising that their calling is in education. Admittedly, there is a decided shortage of […]

Adobe has made its name in superb design software, but it may well be remembered for arguably its most useful gift to the software world: the Portable Document Format (PDF). Saving any document you have created in a Microsoft Office program is easier with the latest release, Acrobat 5, and you can select a range […]

Glenda Daniels Communists and trade unionists are ambivalent about the possible tie-up between the New National Party and the African National Congress, endorsing it as a strategic compromise but also seeing it a potential a boost for ANC rightwingers. A Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) statement this week attacked the NNP as “a […]