Review of the week Alex Dodd Upon entering the blocky white space of the Laboratory (how apt) our ears are filled with the sound of a monotone female voice detailing the workings of the human chakra system. However, unlike the soothing tones of new age healers Caroline Myss or Louise Hayes, this voice, devoid of […]
A NEW epidemic of the Ebola virus has erupted in the east of the Democractic Republic of Congo (DRC), claiming 46 lives, Health Minister Mashako Mamba said on Friday. The epidemic is centered in an area in the rebel-controlled northeast of the country, near Sudan and Uganda, Mamba said over state radio, citing information provided […]
Shaun Harris Neil Thomas, a youngish manager with a large food company in Durban, survived last year’s crack in the stock market fairly well. His collection of unit trust investments actually gained a few percentage points growth over the calendar year – not bad seen against the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) overall decline. Now Thomas […]
Howard Barrell Only interventions by senior African National Congress members persuaded Thabo Mbeki to appoint the ANC’s Western Cape leader, Ebrahim Rasool, as the party’s candidate for premier in the province. Mbeki, who is president of the ANC, and the party’s deployment committee had favoured parachuting in an alternative to Rasool, according to ANC sources. […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is by no means a masterpiece, but it’s a well- crafted and ingeniously entertaining comedy-thriller. It is neat, to the point, with just the right doses of action and comedy. Simplistically, it’s a mixture of Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave and Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp […]
Pagad and the gangsters may at last find common ground – in a Christian church. Marianne Merten reports Reborn Christian Rashied Staggie has joined the Rhema Church. He has become the latest self-confessed gangster to turn to the Bible. It remains to be seen whether his conversion will see him abandoning his multimillion-rand vice network […]
Suddenly debt relief is all the rage. Everybody is trying to get in on the act, saying that not enough is being done to provide financial help to the poorest nations. From United States President Bill Clinton to International Monetary Fund (IMF) director Michel Camdessus: you name them, they’ve got a plan. Make no mistake, […]
Shirley Kossick THE KILLING BOTTLE by Jane Fox (David Philip) This is one of the best novels I’ve read recently – pithy, taut, moving and unusual. The storyline concerns the strange and strained relationship of two elderly men – one white, one black – living on an isolated farm on the escarpment of what used […]
Ann Eveleth Today’s farmworkers are a vocal bunch. Not only do they know that they are getting the short end of the stick, but also that the battery of new land and labour laws are supposed to protect them, and they have strong ideas on why these measures are falling short. Joining forces with about […]
WITH the Springboks facing a captaincy crisis, why not bring back inspirational flank Ruben Kruger, who led the Northern Bulls in their best-yet Super 12 outing on Saturday, to skipper the national side? Springbok captain Gary Teichmann, vice-captain Joost van der Westhuizen and the man tipped to usurp Teichmann, Bobby Skinstad, are all sidelined with […]