Staff Reporter
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/ 26 April 1996

Custom publishing pays off

Rehana Rossouw PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela and Vodacom managing director Alan Knott-Craig are pictured shaking hands in the latest edition of the company’s magazine Vodaworld. This in-house magazine not only provides clients with information about how Madiba relaxes, but the latest information about its products. Airlines and most top hotels have published in-house magazines for decades […]

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/ 26 April 1996

A long way from Bollywood

ANDREW WORSDALE spoke to the movie-mad director of the South African/Indian film, The Making of a Mahatma LAST weekend’s lush premiere of The Making of a Mahatma — the first feature film to be co-produced by South Africa and India — had a distinctly political feel to it. Newly appointed Minister of Trade and Industry […]

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/ 26 April 1996

Behind the tiptoe journalism

TELEVISION: Hazel Friedman IT doesn’t require an analyst to read between the lines of the SABC’s first public forum for discussion of the weird and wanton ways of the print media. In fact, after three episodes of this long-overdue, well-intentioned but weakly conceived programme, the cracks in Between the Lines can be measured on the […]

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/ 26 April 1996

Torture victimswere given no help

Rehana Rossouw THE failure of some magistrates and members of the medical profession to assist victims of human rights abuses emerged as a theme in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Western Cape hearings this week. The family of Looksmart Ngudle, a journalist and Umkhonto weSizwe operative who died in detention in September 1963, testified that […]

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/ 26 April 1996

British politician will

co-operate with truth body Mungo Soggot JOHN Lloyd, the former activist who gave evidence which led to the hanging of the 1964 station bomber John Harris and which prompted the British Labour Party to scupper his political career, has apologised “unreservedly” and agreed to co-operate with the truth commission. Fellow Armed Resistance Movement (ARM) member […]

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/ 26 April 1996

Cape activists resist truth hearings

The truth commission hearings in the Western Cape might have missed the full picture of human rights abuses committed there, Rehana Rossouw reports UNITED Democratic Front (UDF) activists, who bore the brunt of the state’s iron fist in the Western Cape, did not show up at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s hearings in Cape Town […]

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/ 26 April 1996

A tasty piece of bubblegum

CINEMA: Andrew Worsdale POSSIBLY the greatest action director in the world, John Woo is relatively unknown in South Africa. The only one of his films to have played on the main circuit is Hard Target, his first US feature, with local boy Arnold Vosloo as a dinkum Afrikaans mercenary, and Jean-Claude Van Damme intent on […]

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/ 26 April 1996

Special team brings hopes of South Coast

peace A new optimism has arisen out of arrests in politically related crimes on the South Coast, reports Ann Eveleth The work of the police Special Investigation Team probing political violence on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast has brought relative peace to a region once soaked by the blood of internecine strife. Hailed as a “breakthrough” […]

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/ 26 April 1996

Olympic Bid advert sparks debate on child

exploitation In advertising one ‘must use whatever one can to make whatever point one needs’. But are children abused by this system? A decision by the Olympic Bid to use the photograph of an impoverished child in its ad campaign has sparked a debate on the ethics of using children in marketing. Jacquie Golding- Duffy […]

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/ 26 April 1996

Miners gain a foothold in the slippery

shafts The mining industry is about to introduce a state-of-the-art health and safety sytem, reports Eddie Koch A revolutionary health and safety Bill for the mining industry — along with last week’s dramatic findings of the inquiry into the Vaal Reefs disaster — will give thousands of workers who experience some of the worst safety […]