The products may not be warm or comfortable, but=20 Hardwear is finding a growing market for clothes made=20 of scrap. MALU VAN LEEUWEN reports AFTER four years of obscurity, the curious products of=20 a Cape Town partnership are suddenly getting plenty of=20 attention. Hardwear (real names Michelle Vyncke and=20 Chris du Toit) is a small […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin THE OX, which has as its background the severe drought=20 suffered by Sweden in the 1860s, is described as a true=20 story told by director Sven Nykvist. The narrative is=20 presented with the utmost clarity, but not without=20 subtlety. Although the director is self-effacing in the=20 presentation of his ostensibly simple homiletic, […]

The fiery bluster of right-wing farmers has given way=20 to a more pragmatic approach over the new labour=20 tenants’ Bill, reports Eddie Koch EDDIE von Maltitz swaggered around with a 9mm=20 parabellum strapped to his waist. The vierkleur,=20 pennant of the ultra-right, was flying at the entrance.=20 And murmurs of malcontent rumbled through the ranks […]

Without going into any details, Masa has apologised for=20 its past errors, reports Pat Sidley THE Medical Association of South Africa (Masa) last=20 week apologised, seemingly out of the blue, for its=20 attitude during the apartheid years. The apology has been a long time coming, and it did not=20 directly address the issues for which […]

Jacques Magliolo THE March 1995 Reserve Bank Bulletin outlines a number=20 of interesting South African stock market trends which=20 suggest that all major sectors have reached maturity=20 and are facing a sideways movement. Using an index of 100 for 1990, the following trends=20 were determined: * Industrial shares have reached maturity. After the=20 1987 stock […]

Shadley Nash Less than a week after the Eastern Cape government=20 repeated its promise that 1995 was the year of=20 delivery, it endorsed proposals that will take food out=20 of children’s mouths. Cutbacks to the provincial government school feeding=20 schemes have been announced by the province’s Health=20 and Education Ministry in the face of acknowledgments=20 […]

Time magazine’s cover story on cyberporn has become the=20 centrefold of a raging row over its ethics and=20 accuracy, reports Bruce Cohen Accused of falling for a hoax of Hitler Diary =20 proportions, Time’s story is fuelling the growing=20 debate in the United States over censorship of on-line=20 services. Its Cyberporn issue is being waved […]

Chris Louw SOUTH AFRICA will decide before the end of the year on=20 assuming diplomatic relations with the giant People’s=20 Republic of China. Early indications are that Taiwan=20 will be told to close its embassy in Pretoria. Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad, reacting to a=20 report in last week’s M&G, said his department was=20 under […]

Indian economic involvement in South=20 Africa has mushroomed. Reg Rumney reports The purchase by Indian brewery United Breweries=20 Investments (UB) of a 30 percent stake in National=20 Sorghum Breweries — reportedly for R70-million — is=20 the most visible sign of the growing economic co- operation between South Africa and India. UB had previously bought Mabula […]

JOHN MAJOR took a gamble with his political career=20 because his party was divided. He triumphantly won the=20 gamble — but his party remains divided nevertheless.=20 This continuing paradox will cast a long shadow over=20 what is simply a sun-drenched political achievement: a=20 midsummer campaign launched in a rose garden nearly a=20 fortnight ago, clinched […]