Wally Mbhele The head of a KwaZulu-Natal prison who was recently suspended after his alleged involvement in the death of a prisoner is back at work. Minister of Correctional Services Sipho Mzimela promised an inquiry into the actions of Sipho Dlamini, head of the Ingwavuma prison. Prisoners claim they were not informed that the inquiry […]
The English Academy of South Africa is inviting entries for the FNB Vita/English Academy Poetry Prize for a Translation into English. Among the conditions is that the translation be no longer than 50 lines and be written in the last three years. The closing date is September 30, and entries should be sent to the […]
Robert Kirby: Loose Cannon It has taken France – at long last – to realise Oscar Wilde’s famous parody of a dreary Victorian homily. Wilde turned the phrase around and made it: “Work i s the curse of the drinking classes.” What French bureaucracy is now doing is realising controversial legislation that will reduce the […]
millennial deal Alan Henry Grand Prix Michael Schumacher will become the richest Formula One driver of all time after signing a new contract which could net him almost 150-million by keeping him at Ferrari until the end of 2002. The 29-year-old German, who won the 1994 and 1995 world championships in a Benetton, earns about […]
Howard Barrell The Angolan government has moved troops and heavy artillery into position for a large-scale offensive against rebel Unita positions in the central highlands of the country. South African-based security analysts expect an assault to commence in the next few days. The government in Luanda is understood to have sought, and got, the permission […]
Anthea Garman experienced the !Xoe Site Specific exhibition around Nieu Bethesda in the Karoo `Do you have a believable sense of place?” is the simple, cheeky, and only bit of written information about the first installation we stop to see outside Nieu Bethesda. This is artwork number five by Marco Cianfanelli and we’ve chosen to […]
charge Sechaba ka’Nkosi Inkatha Freedom Party moderates have bounced back to centre stage in championing the party’s election campaign for next year. As the IFP grapples with its image as a Zulu-based provincial outfit, its national council has carefully avoided choosing people associated with violence in KwaZulu- Natal and Gauteng in the 1990s to lead […]
A new superfast transistor is set to revolutionise computer chips, writes Michael Brooks Researchers at Yale University have developed a transistor so sensitive that it can watch single electrons moving along a wire. The presence of one electron in the transistor switches it on, and it switches on and off 1 000 times as fast […]
Marianne Thamm There are those who are of the opinion that art is a sacred calling and that the artist, like the young Catholic nun or Buddhist monk, should relinquish the pursuit of material gain to meet the rigours and demands of the vocation. Alone and poverty-stricken (well, at least some of the time) in […]
Has Apple turned the corner at last? Leander Kahney sees Mac fans swoon in the face of the greatest showmanship The 2 500 Macintosh devotees who packed the opening session of Macworld Expo in New York earlier this month were expecting Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh’s acting chief executive, to deliver a short pep talk via […]