Andy Duffy A teacher at a state school in the Northern Province has shot himself, apparently because he was caught netting four salaries a month for one job. The Gazankulu teacher was trapped when he tried to collect the pay cheques during a sting operation the province set up last month to expose “ghost workers” […]
Mail & Guardian reporter Chief land claims commissioner Joe Seremane is threatening to take the government and the African National Congress to the International Court of Justice in a desperate attempt to solve the murder of his younger brother, Timothy Seremane, at the infamous ANC Quatro camp in 1982. Seremane’s latest salvo against the ANC […]
Charlene Smith South Africa has one of the fastest growing franchise markets in the world and with retrenchments on the increase, interest in the sector is growing. Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said franchising had proved to be successful in 65 industries in 100 countries around the world and would continue to […]
Adam Haupt : On stage in Cape Town Graham Weir’s Tales from the Dark Side takes us into the sort of twilight zone world which odd people such as Ray Bradbury depict. Many devoted television addicts will recall Bradbury’s series, which often told very twisted tales. But Tales from the Dark Side is very far […]
Tracy Murinik : On show in Cape Town A note on the door advises that ”It is about truth and reconciliation”, while simultaneously warning against sensitive visual material and reminding one to respect the fact that one is entering a home. Hush … Hush, ”a love story”, begins on the stairwell that leads up to […]
Charl Blignaut : On stage in Johannesburg Considering the dismal state of our major urban arts councils – the Pact board is to be re-transformed, while in Cape Town and Durban cutbacks have left administrators with virtually no artists to administer – it is nothing short of a coup that the North West Arts Council […]
Janet Smith speaks to the first South African writer/director to have a short film accepted for screening by Ster-Kinekor Gavin Hood was an accidental hero when he took on his first (and only) pin-up role in The Game, the South African rugby soap which was slightly ahead of its time when it was screened in […]
Toni Morrison is America’s most famous black writer. Her latest novel, Paradise, is being hailed as her best yet. Katharine Viner spoke to her There are 3 000 people in the Midland Theatre, Kansas City, and the place is packed to the gods. They are here for Toni Morrison, black America’s most famous novelist, and […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM: SUSPECTED foreign buying drove up the all share and financial indices of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange to record highs in heavy trade on Thursday. As usual, the gold index flagged, dragged by the weaker gold price. At the close, the all gold index had dropped 19,9 points to 823,1. The industrial index rose […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: DETERMINED to have Springbok flyhalf Henry Honiball on the Coastal Sharks’ Super-12 team for their match with the New South Wales Waratahs, Sharks coach Ian Macintosh has held back from naming his reserves. Speaking from Sydney, Macintosh explained why he is hedging his bets — Honiball’s shoulders and neck are still hurting, but […]