Singing along with Mariah Carey is no challenge, as Brian Logan discovered at her first-ever concert in London MARIAH CAREY once said about her video for the single Fantasy: “It’s difficult wearing all those hats, but the positive results were worth it.” By this standard, the UK debut of the top-selling recording artist of the […]
David Beresford President Nelson Mandela’s tendency to “shoot from the hip” on foreign policy matters — a trait which is the despair of diplomats, but admired by others as straight talking — was on display again this week when he panned the British prime minister on the eve of his state visit to the United […]
ANDREW WORSDALE searches for an interesting plot among the holiday glut of children’s movies. Films about growing up don’t have to be stupid or simplistic — one only has to think of The Wizard of Oz, The Railway Children, My Life as a Dog or Toto the Hero. But with the school holidays upon us, […]
Philippa Garson PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela’s gentle but persistent finger-wagging at student organisations has met with reluctant nods in some quarters and outright rejection of the “Madiba magic” in others. But his moves have clearly signalled that the romantic liaison between the African National Congress and its campus foot soldiers is coming to an end. The […]
Dullah Omar has admitted the justice system is in crisis, but he’s also upbeat about resolving the problems, report Gaye Davis, Justin Pearce and Mungo Soggott A crisis of confidence has hit the South African justice system with threats of unprecedented strike action in the prosecution service, glaring inconsistencies in sentencing and bail and major […]
The jury is still out on whether the new framework for small business policy can be put into action, writes Aspasia Karras The White Paper on a National Strategy for the Development of Small Business in South Africa, endorsed in March 1995, is finally kicking into life. The national Small Business Act was tabled in […]
Bronwyn Jones EVERY year the Sahara Desert expands its arid boundaries and the population of Africa grows. And while big plans are afoot to tap the waters of Zambia and Lesotho to quench South Africa’s industrial thirst, none of it will prove enough unless tied with long-term protection of water sources and a sharp curb […]
The Mark Gevisser Profile Since the Market Theatre opened in 1976, Janet Suzman has come home to do a play three times — almost exactly once a decade. And that, says theatre boss John Kani, is just about as much of her as they can take: “She’s a monster! An absolute monster! She presents a […]
“During the apartheid era there was no channel for negotiation. Now that there is such a channel, students don’t have to protest immediately, when something is wrong” — Benedict Radebe, 19, BSc first year “A lot of the protesting isn’t justified. Here at Wits, it hasn’t been about genuine student grievances, but more about a […]
Jean Baptiste Kayigamba in Kigali United States nationals need to watch their backs – — not just in Saudi Arabia, where a truck bomb killed 19 Americans and wounded about 80 more at a US air base last week. They are also under threat in East and Central Africa, according to a communique issued in […]