Alex Dodd Strange how we’re so often blind to our own artistic treasures. Many of us speed past one or two works of wall art every morning on the way to work. Meanwhile in Holland they’re busy lighting up the lives of pedestrians and commuters. Led by public artist and popular Jo’burg DJ Nicky Blumenfeld, […]
Tangeni Amupadhi and Wally Mbhele Former Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) operative Johan Niemoller, named in court this week as the mastermind behind a recent spate of arms heists from military bases, has a long history of supplying military equipment and other assistance to the Angolan rebel movement, Unita. Niemoller was in 1995 named as the […]
Tangeni Amupadhi Tension is simmering in Thabazimbi in the Northern Province over allegations that a policeman accused of failing to protect a state witness has remained on the force. It has also emerged that police authorities ignored a directive, issued a year ago by the province’s Department of Safety and Security, to act against Detective […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.00PM: THE South African Communist Party on Wednesday hit out at the government’s growth, employment and redistribution policy (Gear), saying it is misplaced to address socio-economic needs, and has manifestly failed to reach its stated targets. Addressing the SACP’s 10th congress at Crown Mines in Johannesburg, SACP general secretary Charles Nqakula said: “We remain […]
The government’s reluctance to hold Cabinet ministers accountable for their performance in office has reached ridiculous levels in the saga of Penuell Maduna, the minister of minerals and energy. This newspaper long ago pointed to Maduna’s recklessness and lack of judgment, suggesting he had neither the ability nor the temperament to head up such a […]
Ian Jack BEYOND BELIEF by VS Naipaul (Little, Brown R89,95) In 1979 and 1980, VS Naipaul made a tour of Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia and reached the conclusion, in Among the Believers, that Islam was a poor receptacle for political needs; it couldnt teach people how to run a modern state. Fifteen years later, […]
You can negotiate with your bank to get the best deal on your bond or car financing, writes Belinda Beresford Waking up after the night before, that faint hint of an ache in your forehead is a disagreeable reminder of the pain to come as the hangover hits with full force. Its the same wincing […]
Tony Twine A tailpiece to a news bulletin a few years ago reported that a young child had lost his first milk tooth and had been instructed on how to liquidate his asset via the tooth fairy market. Much to his delight, the tooth disappeared overnight, to be replaced by a shining R5 coin it […]
Much like the most recent X-Files movie, Windows 98 is depending on word-of-mouth for its success, writes Douglas Rushkoff The modestly trumpeted launch of Windows 98 seems, on the surface, out of character for Microsoft – especially when compared with the global promotional blitz that accompanied the roll-out of Win95, for which Bill Gates spared […]
Angella Johnson: VIEW FROM A BROAD `You’re going to train with the Springboks? Lucky cow!” was the general outcry when I told a group of female friends over lunch that I was spending a day with the national rugby team. Some of them (the white ones, that is) wiggled pleasurably in their seats. “Oooh, that […]