The government has so far ignored its own report on administering antiretrovirals Belinda Beresford The government has been sitting on a report it commissioned that vigorously endorses the use of antiretroviral drugs in stopping the transmission of HIV between mothers and children. The study, commissioned by the Department of Health and delivered four months ago, […]
Kathryn Smith WAYNE BARKER: ARTIST’S MONOGRAPH by Charl Blignaut (Chalkham Hill Press) Those familiar with “cutting edge” contemporary art, or the suburb of Troyeville, need no introduction to Wayne Barker. But for those who do, or who know him simply as a louche, conscientious objector-artist and one-time gallery owner who bears more than a passing […]
Neil Thomas taking stock After decades of being run as a cosy old boys’ club, the changes to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) over the second half of the 1990s have been profound. The perception, justified by numerous moves to arrest change from the JSE’s main committee, was that the exchange was run primarily for […]
With crime being South Africa’s most pressing problem, corruption within the police raises serious concern Piers Pigou At a recent conference in Cape Town on crime and human rights, the former South African ambassador to The Netherlands, Carl Niehaus, pointed out that the issue of dealing with incarcerated juveniles had not moved forward significantly since […]
THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Friday announced the death of the chair of the amnesty committee, Judge Hassen Mall. According to the TRC, he passed away in hospital in Durban after a short illness. Judge Mall leaves his wife Sylvia, son Envor and daughters Marciana and Shireen. 17
Howard Barrell over a barrel I have spent several days this week trying to understand the basis on which Thabo Mbeki says Tony Leon is a racist. I have read, reread and read again the speech in which Mbeki did so – the second Oliver Tambo Lecture, delivered in Johannesburg last Friday. I have enlisted […]
links David Le Page The country’s largest providers of Internet services to home dial-up subscribers, M-Web, World Online and SAIX, are carrying links to child pornography websites on their servers. The links are part of the Usenet service, an Internet-wide system of virtual bulletin boards on which subscribers can place and respond to messages. Users […]
Brenda Atkinson REVIEW OF THE WEEK The exhibition blank_ Architecture, apartheid and after currently on show in Newtown, forms part of the recent Urban Futures multi-disciplinary event. It offers inspiring insights into the historical articulations of South African urban space. Deserving of acclaim for its acute intelligence and meticulous research, blank_ Architecture, apartheid and after, […]
demand Khadija Magardie crossfire Any discussion on prostitution is replete with difficulties. Any attempts to critically address the issue, without resorting to decriminalisation, is met with derision and almost always has various gender types foaming at the mouth. To argue that something is fundamentally wrong with prostitution does not necessarily imply any adverse judgement of […]
Barry Streek An extraordinary claim that Western intelligence agencies, in particular the CIA and MI6, were behind the earliest phases of the armed struggle against apartheid in South Africa, was published this week. The claim, printed in the latest edition of the investigative magazine Noseweek, suggests that the Western intelligence agencies funded the National Committee […]