Two years of transition: A series by leading South African authors, celebrating the second birthday of our democracy Njabulo Ndebele AFTER some 20 years of absence, I returned home with a family in 1991. On the first Saturday of our return, I took them on a drive to see the house in which I was […]
To make some of this week’s main news stories come alive, visit the following dedicated sites on the World Wide Web. http://www.uoknor.edu/okdaily/bombing.html is the home of The Oklahoma Daily’s web news service on the April 19 1995 bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. http://www.envirolink.org/earthday/ is the official home page of […]
Philippa Garson reports on mixed reactions to the proposed new higher education system MANY academics blanch at the discourse of today’s education policy-makers, who talk of multiple exit and entry points, ladders, frameworks and flexibility — descriptions of “pathways of learning” that seem to bear closer resemblance to complex obstacle courses than the hallowed process […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gaye Davis THE Human Rights Committee has asked the Constitutional Court to allow members of the public to appear before it to give their views on the final Constitution, on grounds that much of what has emerged has come out of closed political party negotiations. The Constitutional Court has set aside the month of June […]
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 […]
Arthur Goldstuck Give it to me straight: how many people really are on the Internet? How many people will get my marketing message and buy my product? That remains the single most vexing question about the potential of the Internet, at least when you get past the hype about pornography and security. If you still […]
Eddie Koch KwaZulu-Natal Attorney General Tim McNally will subpoena the Department of Military Intelligence to supply a vital batch of military documents which have gone missing from the top-secret collection implicating General Magnus Malan and other officers in a conspiracy to murder African National Congress supporters. Last week the AG handed a set of documents […]