FRIDAY, 8.30AM THE National Party lost control of Pretoria City Council — once the party’s bastion — when 10 councillors including former mayors Nico Stofberg and Piet Olivier resigned from the party on Thursday. The 10 said they will join Roelf Meyer’s New Movement Process, as they “have now finally come to the conclusion that […]
Hazel Friedman SO what’s a scumbag Eastender like yourself doing in a place like this? I don’t actually get around to asking this of world-famous photographer David Bailey. But on eyeing his jet-lagged lids I get the feeling that he’d much rather deal with inane queries than those of the gee, gosh, wow kind. But […]
THURSDAY, 10.30AM ALTHOUGH employment in the public sector showed a marginal annual increase between the first quarter of 1996 and the first quarter of 1997, R3 005,2-million more had been paid to public servants by the end of the first quarter of 1997 compared with the first quarter of 1996, according to data released by […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: SOME 800 000 Liberian voters head for the polls on Saturday to choose a parliament and a president to govern Africa’s oldest republic, ravaged by a bitter seven-year civil war that has killed more than 150 000 people. A huge West African peacekeeping force from 10 nations has been stationed in Liberia since […]
FILM OF THE WEEK : Johnathan Romney IN the great debate about cultural dumbing- down, cartoon cretins Beavis and Butt-head are often singled out as Anti-Christs, emblems of all that’s most debased in contemporary pop culture. But at the press preview of their debut movie, the cinema was crammed with more highbrow cultural journalists and […]
Ken Barris RUDE SHELTERS by Robert Kirby (Jonathan Ball, R79,95) RUDE SHELTERS is a collection of Robert Kirby’s columns and articles that, judging by the content, span a three-year period from 1994 to 1996. It includes selections of his work as a television critic for The Star Tonight, satirical columns in the Sunday Times and […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM ABSA Bank, in its Quarterly Housing Review released on Thursday, says that house prices in SA declined by an average 3,7% in real terms during the first half of this year and, given high interest rates and high levels of household debt, the situation is not likely to improve. Another factor contributing to […]
As both Unita and the Angolan government begin to redeploy their troops, US diplomats are desperately trying to save the Lusaka Peace Accord, reports Chris Gordon AS evidence emerges of massive Unita military duplicity in Angola and the government in Luanda mobilises for full- scale war, frenetic diplomatic activities are under way to try to […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM THE Workers’ Mouthpeace, the trade union involved in a running war with the National Uniuon of Mineworkers at Anglo American Platinum Mines that has so far claimed eight lives, may have been set up as an elaborate insurance scam. The union, which first appeared after the crippling illegal strike at Amplats last year […]
FINE ART: Hazel Friedman ARTISTS Clifford Charles and Samson Mnisi could hardly be blamed for wanting to throw a brick through the window of their exhibition site. That’s how frustrated they must feel about the general response to their show. Their exhibition, B(l)ack in Town, is currently on display on the recently vacated 13th floor […]