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/ 13 February 1998
Andrea Dworkin Monica Lewinsky is in a terrible, terrible mess. She’s being threatened by a very mean special prosecutor who has unlimited powers. And he plays hard ball. She has my sympathy. Of everyone who is a player in this game, she is the one who is going to be destroyed by it. We are […]
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/ 13 February 1998
The new academic year has arrived for tertiary students, and with it come the ever more ominous sounds of a university system about to break at its financial seams. Universities are threatening to bar students with unpaid debts, while student leaders in turn promise mass action. Competition is fierce for bursaries, scholarships and sponsorships, many […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Belinda Beresford Like all love affairs, it started with physical impressions. Intelligent brown eyes, long white coat, neat little paws. She wasn’t quite the watchdog I had in mind when I went to the SPCA, but I took her home anyway. About R250 bought me a vaccinated, collared, spayed and microchipped faithful companion. Less than […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Lynda Gledhill While a nurse’s job is to heal the sick, mending the profession’s racial wounds is proving difficult. The recently formed Democratic Nursing Association of South Africa is struggling to overcome the still-prevalent problem of racism, especially in private hospitals. “These places are still predominately white,” said the association’s president, Philda Nomusa Dudu Nzimande. […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Belinda Beresford The news that 20% of the world’s silver supply had been bought by one company has the potential drama of a Hollywood script, especially since the last time someone tried to make a serious killing on the metal they lost about $1-billion. And the protagonists, Warren Buffett and his company Berkshire Hathaway, have […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Nic Turner Despite their potential to cause chaos in computer systems, the majority of South African hackers are driven, like their counterparts around the world, by a passion for programming rather than the desire to cause malicious damage. The hacking scene in South Africa is disparate and fragmented, confined to white suburbia and small platteland […]
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/ 13 February 1998
bias Ann Eveleth Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Kader Asmal undertook this week to launch an inquiry into allegations that building consortium Group Five refused to consider highly qualified candidates for senior posts because they were black or female. Executive recruitment firm Dick Muller CC blew the whistle on the construction, engineering and works […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Gino Rossi: Share World As the Asian economic turmoil abates, South African financial markets are again speculating about the possibility of an interest-rate cut. For the past three weeks the rumour mill has been spinning at a fast pace, particularly on Fridays when the South African Reserve Bank usually makes announcements about cuts in the […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Playwright Paul Slabolepszy has had 22 plays staged in almost as many years. So why, asks Charl Blignaut, does he have to impersonate Naas Botha at rugby matches to pay the bills? ‘All I actually want to do is stay home at the computer and write,” says Paul Slabolepszy once we have settled in as […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Incentive schemes are big business, writes Belinda Beresford It’s nice to be wanted. It’s even nicer if your desirability is displayed in a concrete way, say by an exclusive lounge at the airport, special discounts on purchases, a bigger company car or even the odd little gift. Motivating people to do what you want is […]