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 […]

‘Advertisements’ like the one below are popping up in publications around the world. Now the M&G joins in The Fear Project Hazel Friedman ADAM BROOMBERG knows what it is like to be shit-scared. Literally. Or, rather, he has a mediated understanding of it from reading articles on experiments in which white mice were exposed to […]

THEATRE: David Le Page BESSIE HEAD’S novel Maru is a stark dissection of racial prejudice, all the more compelling for looking at the relationship of black Batswana and the Bushmen. It is not a perfect novel, but there is enough insight, and unexpected writing, to make it memorable. Walter Chakela’s adaptation for the stage, now […]

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 […]

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 […]

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” […]

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 […]

to more violence’ Ann Eveleth KwaZulu-Natal human rights groups delivered a stiff blow this week to the African National Congress’s bid to stall local government elections in the province, warning a postponement would escalate tensions. In a submission tabled to the task group investigating the feasibility of the May 29 poll date, the Human Rights […]

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 […]

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 […]