forward Paul Kirk For more than 30 years the South African military and state medical systems have been performing sex change operations on the quiet. This revelation came out this week when the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality was approached by one of the oldest victims of the stateOs secret programme to change […]
The Farrelley brothers+ new filthfest Me, Myself and Irene opens this week. John Patterson hails its lavatorial lineage Whenever I meet someone who doesn+t consider 1980+s Caddyshack to be a pinnacle, an apogee, an Everest among vulgar American comedies, I find I must immediately reconsider the terms of our relationship. If they also find Bob […]
Users of instant messaging (IM) software number more than 100-million. In no order of preference, the most popular IM packages include: l ICQ (OI seek youO): www.mirabilis. com l Yahoo Messenger: messenger.yahoo.com l Odigo: www.odigo.com l AOL Instant Messenger (AIM): www.aol.com/aim/home.html l Powwow: www.tribalvoice.com l MSN Messenger: messenger.msn.com With the exception of Powwow, these packages […]
Conditions in prisons are not likely to improve until the problem of overcrowding is solved Barry Streek The OghastlyO conditions and overcrowding in South AfricaOs 236 prisons prevent the addressing of prisonersO human rights, says the inspecting judge of prisons, Judge Hannes Fagan. About 170 000 prisoners were being held in jails built to accommodate […]
Brasse vannie Kaap+s new album, Yskoud, heads into sakkie-sakkie and hard rock territory. Adam Haupt spoke to them before their Oppikoppi and Belgium missions It+s an unusually warm winter+s day in Cape Town and I+m hanging out in a chicken joint with Brasse vannie Kaap+s (BVK) Fat and Ready D. The Brasse were a tad […]
Brenda Atkinson crossfire While the idea of woman-hatred is commonplace and spans most cultures, hatred of men is generally considered the narrow preserve of embittered radical lesbians and the odd feminist. On the surface of things, director Catherine BreillatOs controversial and infinitely subversive film Romance demands that equivalent term, misandry: the message it conveys about […]
David Beresford Another Country Gazing at my face in the mirror I wonder whether I have not stumbled across one of the great discoveries of our times: the co- existence of Ron and Dave, which is to say me and me. The proposition is founded in a fit of indignation with she who probably qualifies […]
Glenda Daniels A new project to improve the treatment of rape victims reporting the crime in the Western Cape has been completed by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). The BJA conducted a study of the experiences of women reporting rapes at three Cape Flats police stations. The report shows that women are often not […]
It is a peaceful weekday morning. As I ring the bell at the art gallery, the suburb wraps me in friendly gurgles of chatter and radio and the hum of appliances. Someone had suggested a visit to the exhibition of artist Judith Mason Obecause she has some truth commission stuffO. I find myself in a […]
Innovations Novell has introduced its own instant messaging client, Instantme 2.0, which works within the AOL Instant Messanger communications framework. Instantme is highly secure, using encryption and digital certificates. It also has built-in audio and video messaging capabilities. Novell claims it+s ideal for businesses as it provides a medium for -peri-shable+ responses – for that, […]