Lynda Loxton The grand-scale fudging of issues to protect sacred cows in the oil industry continued apace this week with the release of the long-awaited Lambrechts report on deregulation. The report advises the government to retain the status quo for at least three to five years, while the already over-researched industry is again studied and […]
Despite a weak signal, Radio Today claims to have a substantial following and is looking forward to an even better future, writes Sia Sanneh Buried deep beneath the static of the airwaves and pushed right to the edge of one’s tuner is a radio station which is a blast from the past, catering for the […]
IT is axiomatic that editorial charters designed to preserve the independence of newspapers are “a good thing”. But we cannot help but feel uneasy about the draft charter published by Times Media Limited this week. The main problem with the charter is its timing. The fact that it is being cha mpioned by white editors […]
CINEMA: Derek Malcolm JEAN-PAUL Rappeneau’s bustling Cyrano de Bergerac was thought a considerable risk to make, but turned out to be one of the most successful European films of recent years. That, however, is nothing compared with the risk taken with his latest film, The Horseman on the Roof, probably the most expensive French film […]
BOXING: Gavin Evans in London THE morning after the fight before, Thulane Malinga was on the blower to his promotional boss, looking for a way to recuperate the R3-million he had just squandered. “When can you get me my return? Have you got a date yet?” he pleaded to Rodney Berman. And though it wasn’t […]
Philippa Garson THE sudden death of professor Etienne Mureinik was a tragic loss to the countr y, friends and colleagues said this week. Mureinik, dean of the law faculty at Wits University, took his life by jumping from the 23rd floor of a hotel in Braamfontein on Wednesday morning, accordin g to police, after a […]
Antonio Ole deserves the prize for the best one- person “production” in Grahamstown. Less an installation than a poignant piece of theatre, his mixed-media opus, Breaking Boundaries, spans virtually the entire spectrum of colonial history, and simultaneously engages in the most pertinent discourses of contemporary art, without sacrificing the specifics of time, place or personal […]
Novelist Mark Behr knew he couldn’t keep his spy activities secret forever, re ports Justin Pearce Threat of exposure at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and in the media was hanging over the head of author Mark Behr when he confessed to having spi ed for the South African Police at Stellenbosch University in the […]
For the workers carved up with machetes last week, genocide happens just once. Chris McGreal reports from Bujumbura There is a difference of opinion in Burundi about the cement factory manager w ho burnt 22 of his workers to death, and sold tickets to their fellow employee s to watch. The manager is a Tutsi, […]
Philippa Garson A small-time bus company owner claims he has been ruined by transport giant Pu tco for daring to compete with it. Sam Joga, owner of Jika Bus Services, has the police and Putco after his blood and a team of mineworkers and criminal lawyer Lawley Shein on his side. Joga claims he has […]