plans to sue Gauteng Philippa Garson THE Gauteng Education Department is facing legal action for closing down a private school without giving reasons. When George Zachos opened a private high school next to his marketing college in Johannesburg, he didn’t bargain for the “nightmare” he claims he suffered, a nightmare he has “no words to […]
Marion Edmunds TWO of the Cameron Commission’s key recommendations to lift the veil of secrecy on South Africa’ s arms export industry failed to find support in Cabinet. Water Affairs Minister Kader Asmal — who heads the Cabinet committee scrutinising arms trade policy and arms export applications — had already rejected elements of the the […]
Playing Francois Pienaar out of position was the wrong move, but Chris Rossouw moving from hooker to eighthman was a success for Transvaal RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE are those who still believe fervently in the school of thought so successfully propagated by the late Danie Craven that if a man is what the Doc called […]
JAMES SEY explores the enduring appeal of Fifties B-grade science-fiction movies THOSE wonderful and genuinely strange people at Norwood’s Seven Arts cinema have done it again. Following hard on the heels of their Friday night lesbian-vampire-grunge-horror movie slots (what do you mean, you missed them? You fool!) comes a festival of “space- fiction” movies, running […]
Justin Pearce Stellenbosch University vice-rector Christo Viljoen leaves the Independent Broadcasting Authority this week, amid rumblings from within the IBA that he rarely turned up for duty in Johannesburg although he received a full-time salary for seven months. Viljoen, a former chairman of the South African Broadcasting Corporation —he also did that job part-time — […]
Touring Zairean superstar Papa Wemba talks to GWEN ANSELL about fashion, music and his African roots PAPA WEMBA is quiet but emphatic. ”Please, I don’t want to talk about le sape. The French press have made a great noise about my clothes, but my first identity is as a musician.” Zaireans, of course, are great […]
THEATRE: Bafana Khumalo ‘KING Kong would have made it to the top,” declares a young, upwardly mobile black man as he throws out his collection of Temptations, Jimmy Hendrix and Jackson Five records, ”if only he had used the elevator. Instead, he drew attention to his struggle and ended up dead.” Another, dressed as a […]
Rehana Rossouw PROFESSOR Kader Asmal, chair of Parliament’s Ethics Committee, this week challenged Western Cape Premier Hernus Kriel to reveal full details of his estate disclosed in his divorce action. Asmal said Kriel had established ”crude new norms” by referring to President Nelson Mandela’s personal wealth. Therefore, Kriel’s role in private and public life should […]
prisons Chief casualties of the conflict between the correctional services minister and ANC MP Carl Niehaus are prisoners, prison staff and prison reform, reports Gaye Davis AMID signs that South Africa’s jails are lurching further into crisis, President Nelson Mandela is yet again to intervene to bring together the Inkatha Freedom Party minister and the […]
Bullied by defence lawyers and still loyal to many of the high-ranking accused, Malan trial witness JP Opperman is going through hell on earth in court, writes Eddie Koch THERE is a courtroom axiom that says the cross-examiner who relies on intimidation instead of intellect probably lacks the factual information to expose flaws in the […]