US threats to penalise businesses trading with Cuba, Iran and Libya have pitted it against the European Union. John Palmer reports from Brussels THE European Union warned this week that it is heading for a serious diplomatic and trade confrontation with the United States over laws that would penalise European businesses trading with Cuba, Iran […]
The Reverend Fernando Kuthino promised everything from a place in heaven to a cure for Aids, but he was no match for President Mobutu Sese Seko. Chris McGreal reports FOR Israel Ciswaka, his pastor’s arrest, torture and dispatch to a Zairean military prison for 12 months’ hard labour was confirmation that there is a God […]
Africanist academics have come together to mobilise for change on campuses — and they have the government’s latest report on tertiary institutions in their sights. Justin Pearce reports A GROUP of black academics is set to do battle with the National Commission on Higher Education (NCHE), a body appointed by Parliament to find a new […]
The Hughes brothers’ debut feature, Menace II Society, was a clichéd story of the hood; filmed with flair on a budget of $3-million, it grossed over 10 times that amount. Dead Presidents, their second feature, was made with the support of big bucks — and while it covers familiar territory (the Vietnam war, ghetto violence), […]
Luan Nel abandons his miniature landscapes and transforms concrete walls into canvases for a show this weekend. He spoke to Hazel Friedman.
Amy Lawrence talks to the proud men of Croatia, a nation that has emerged from the ravages of war to create a team capable of challenging Europe’s finest SINGING the cherished national anthem with hand on heart, wearing the red and white check shirt of Croatia, is a feeling beyond description for the 11 men […]
Arts education has never been a priority at school level. Now that’s about to change, reports BARBARA LUDMAN COMPULSORY arts education for all school pupils up to Standard Seven is likely to be implemented by the beginning of 1998. The national Department of Education is planning to publish guidelines early next year for arts curricula […]
As demand for South African exports increases, mining houses can expect profits, but the consumer will be hard hit, writes Bronwen Jones COAL will be in short supply this winter as overseas demand soars and the rand makes foreign sales more attractive. Add to this the lulls in production enforced by heavy rains earlier this […]
Eddie Koch A new batch of secret documents handed to court in the Malan murder trial last week, provide a rare glimpse into the workings of the State Security Council (SSC) set up to co- ordinate the National Party’s “total strategy” against insurrection in the 1980s. Apart from the light they shed on the military’s […]
Was the ANC’s support for this week’s Cosatu strike a trade-off? Jacquie Golding-Duffy reports While labour analysts say the strike this week by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) was “relatively successful”, some are questioning why the federation opted to avoid any direct conflict with the African National Congress. The 1,6-million-strong federation embarked […]