Marthali Brand The Internet is set to be the next advertising goldmine, if the number of online South African newspapers is anything to go by. A search for newspapers on the South Africa Online search engine gives more than 30 hits, including obscure publications like Die Padda and Colin’s Family Focus. But the really serious […]

Adam HauptOn stage in Cape Town The nightlife in central Cape Town is vibrant, and a casual observer watching the cars cruising and the dudes boozing might easily think that the multicultural beast that is South Africa is perfectly represented here. But this is a misapprehension. The m ore pretentious forms of cultural expression still […]

Tracy MurinikOn show in Cape Town Like a leaf skeleton, or a scrutinised microdot, or a highly convoluted mapping of space, Paul Edmunds’s assemblages inveigle themselves along the foundations of the Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet in an installation entitled Once, Again. Hundreds of small plastic cable ties and bottle tops, all meticulously joined and […]

I find myself sitting next to Mike Atherton as the England cricket team crowds on to a small plane leaving Guyana for the next Test in Barbados. He is reading the memoirs of Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize-winning poet from Chile. Atherton is also impressively familiar with Guyanese literature and mentions the recent death of […]

Tracy Murinik: On show in Cape Town Like the variegations of a leaf skeleton, or a highly convoluted, contoured mapping of space, Paul Edmunds’s assemblages inveigle themselves along the foundations of the Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet in an installation entitled Once Again. Hundreds of small plastic cable ties and bottle tops, all meticulously joined […]

THURSDAY, 11.30AM: MAMELODI Sundowns have a clear lead in the Professional Soccer League championships after beating Moroka Swallows 1-0 at the Odi Stadium on Wednesday. Kenny Niemach scored the Brazilians’ only goal in the 55th minute after linking well with Oumar Barro. Barro, who is Sundowns’ new Burkinabe international, had the Birds’ defence in all […]

THURSDAY, 12.30PM: AIDS infection rates in South Africa are growing, with a 13% increase since 1996, Health Minister Dr Nkosazana Zuma said on Wednesday. Speaking at a conference announcing the results of the 1997 HIV/Aids survey, Zuma said that an estimated 16,1% of women attending ante-natal clinics in South Africa register HIV positive. The results, […]

THURSDAY, 3.00PM: GOVERNMENT research indicates that the Atomic Energy Corporation should be split into two sections, one of which should be privatised. The Cabinet-mandated research says there is no further need for the AEC’s original nuclear research mandate, which should now be scrapped. A new public company, AEC Technology, should be established to develop and […]

WEDNESDAY, 2.30PM: THE Western Cape and Gauteng are envisaging drastically reducing the number of public servant’s posts in an attempt to cut down on spending. The Western Cape wants to cut 10 000 jobs by the end of the year, leaving it with 70 000 public servants, said provincial Director-General Niel Barnard in Parliament on […]