posters Paul Kirk During the June election Amichand Rajbansi’s Minority Front unleashed a secret weapon on Durban: a king-size poster. Now Rajbansi has to pay the price. Durban has strict by-laws relating to the placement of election posters. No posters can be placed on traffic signs, no more than one poster can be erected on […]

Charged with an earnest desire for peace and reconciliation, the communities of Dundee, in KwaZulu-Natal, and its surrounding districts rallied to commemorate the Anglo-Boer South African War Centenary (1999-2002) in true Rainbow Nation spirit. Last Saturday’s programme began with the re-enactment of the Battle of Talana (October 20 1899). A fine performance from volunteer men, […]

Jennifer Ferguson’s show Untimely is at present running at the Barney Simon Theatre in the Market Theatre complex until November 20. The performance coincides with the CD release of her 1989 album of the same name, to which a dynamic cover version of the Dave Marks song Master Jack has been added. During December she […]

They wear Orange sashes, they go on Orange marches – and they’re based in Ghana. Chris McGreal meets the Protestants who don’t have a problem with Catholics Divine Fred Gregorio-de Souza – Most Worshipful Brother and former Grand Master – popped the question almost immediately after telling me to call him Fred. “Do you lean […]

radio David Shapshak In a South African Internet first, the United Cricket Board (UCB) is trying to prevent an online sports “radio” from broadcasting commentary of the country’s cricket Tests, even though no one else is currently doing it. The usual broadcaster, the SABC, did not run live commentary of the historic first Test against […]

By Peter Dickson The Eastern Cape Department of Health, its hospital care services threatened with financial collapse within five years by an overload of Aids patients and its budget facing over-expenditure of R225- million this year as it struggles with a near billion-rand shortfall, went public this week on plans to rationalise state hospitals and […]

Howard Barrell WHO IS … EMEKA ANYAOKU? Someone as convinced of his own gravity as he is of his sincerity is probably best suited to leading a pack of boy scouts or to another, similarly worthy cause. We could be forgiven for thinking such a man unlikely to be much good at politics. For, whereas […]

John Matshikiza WITH THE LID OFF ‘Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl, but she doesn’t have a lot to say,” the late John Lennon once jingled on the subject of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth. This week we had the pleasure of Her Majesty’s company in our humble country for the second time in five years. Last […]

Khadija Magardie BODY LANGUAGE One of the funniest “girlie” scenes in a modern movie was in the 1992 hit comedy My Cousin Vinny. The movie revolves around mechanic-turned-lawyer who has to defend a relative accused of murder. In the now legendary scene, Marisa Tomei’s character, Mona Lisa Vito, is complaining to her boyfriend, Vinny (Joe […]

Much of government is hidden, with many officials inaccessible and unknown except to people within their own ministries and departments. Particularly because of the recent large turnover in the director generals of most departments, it has become even more difficult to establish which officials are influential. Many of these advisers have only been appointed since […]