Encarta or Britannica?The encyclopaedia giants on CD-Rom go head-to-head. Roger Plant adjudicates Britannica seems a synonym for encyclopaedias, carrying that authority which a market leader can command long after it ceases to be earned. Until a few years ago, many conscientious families might still have considered investing in its 32 volumes. Yet by 1996, sales […]
Angella Johnson: VIEW FROM A BROAD There are many clubs for travellers. There’s the mile-high club, that exclusive group of people who have copulated 10 000m above ground. Then there are numerous frequent-flyer clubs. Well, I’ve just joined what should be called the deportation club. It was not by choice and certainly does not have […]
Is Antz producer Jeffrey Katzenberg taking revenge on former employer Disney?He spoke to David Eimer When Antz, the first animated feature from DreamWorks SKG, overtook the $67- million box-office take of Beavis and Butthead Do America in November 1998, it became the most successful non- Disney animated movie ever. Still riding high, Antz is the […]
Loose cannon: Robert Kirby A trusty old verbal objet d’art has been given a new lease of life. Thanks to the Black Lawyers’ Association the word “subliminal” is back in fashion. The last time the word enjoyed such attention was back in the 1950s when something called “subliminal advertising” was exposed for the cheating scam […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The festive-season feasting on turkey, ham and plum pudding surely led to much moaning and groaning on the training grounds of Castle Premiership clubs this week as semi-fit players prepared for a resumption of hostilities. Mid-table Cape Town Spurs and tail- enders Dynamos kicked off the second half of the 1998/99 league […]
INTERNATIONAL credit rating agency, Moody’s Investor Services, has reconfirmed South Africa’s investment grade status and upgraded the outlook for the rating from negative to stable, the finance department announced on Thursday. The department said that Moody’s had indicated it is concerned about the rate of economic growth and the low level of employment creation but […]
AFRICAN National Congress members disgruntled with Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa’s leadership made personal submissions to the party’s president,Thabo Mbeki, during his low-key three-day visit to the province earlier this week. The series of meetings, initially planned as a review of the ANC’s organisational status, reportedly included a series of one-on-one meetings between Mbeki and unhappy […]
Cameron Duodu: LETTER FROM THE NORTH In its January 6 issue, The Washington Post reported: “United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has obtained what he regards as convincing evidence that UN arms inspectors helped collect eavesdropping intelligence used in United States efforts to undermine the Iraqi regime, according to confidants who said he is deeply […]
THE South African Broadcasting Corporation was served a second subpoena on Thursday in an attempt to force it to hand over to investigators video footage of the lynching in August 1996 of Hard Living gang co-leader Rashaad Staggie. Staggie was shot and burned to death by a vigilante mob in Cape Town in the first […]
Linda Chisholm:A SECOND LOOK If the matric exam did not exist, South Africans would have to invent it. As one of our major social institutions, the matric exam results each year signal whether we are succeeding or failing as a nation. This year’s results were no different. Whether they are a major or a minor […]