Reluctant to release any of its vast tracts of land, the Defence Force is being threatened with land invasions by displaced communities, writes Eddie Koch THE South African National Defence Force has come under fire for scuttling land reform in parts of the country where the army controls large tracts of unused territory — much […]
IT took three days of court argument, three-and-a-half months of deliberation and 244 pages of opinion for the Constitutional Court to re-establish the sanctity of life in South Africa by declaring invalid the death penalty. This week’s decision is a major break from the past. It brings to an end South Africa’s long-standing dominance of […]
The war of words over the Shell House “massacre” 14 months ago has obscured what really happened on the day. Gavin Du Venage gives his eyewitness account MARCH 28 1994. I arrived at Shell House shortly after 11am to do a story on a shooting incident that had taken place earlier that morning. Shots had […]
Age: 22 going on three-and-a-half Appearance: Not to be confused with the other James. James Small is the hot-tempered wing, turned fashion model. James Dalton is the hot-tempered hooker with stick-on ears and a familiar face, who has an uncanny resemblance to a police identikit sketch. Contribution to rugby: Demonstrating that even rugby players have […]
Car sales hit new highs in May — and Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) pushed aside previous market leader Toyota to take the lead in the passenger car market. New car sales of around 20 000 were 42 percent up on May last year, and almost 30 percent higher than April’s figure, according to figures released […]
ANC deputy secretary general Cheryl Carolus applied for life insurance — and discovered how HIV sufferers are The experience of buying our first home has been turned, for my husband and I, into a face-to-face confrontation with the irresponsible and discriminatory way in which the insurance industry continues to deal with HIV and Aids. It […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin IN Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance (1893), Mrs Arbuthnot turns out to be of considerable importance to Lord Illingworth: she is the mother of his illegitimate son. In A Man of No Importance, a country house near London is replaced by Dublin and instead of the gentry, all the characters […]
Shirley Kossick ELECTRICITY by Victoria Glendinning (Hutchinson, VICTORIA GLENDINNING is an accomplished and highly regarded writer, best known for her authoritative biographies of Rebecca West, Vita Sackville-West, Edith Sitwell and Elizabeth Bowen. Her most recent biography — on Anthony Trollope — was published to widespread acclaim in 1992 and re-affirmed her status as a thorough […]
Vista University is an animal with seven bodies and no head. The resignation of the university’s entire top management structure — rector, vice-rector and two registrars — in August last year has left the seven- campus institution floundering with no proper Executive functions have been taken over by a special committee of the university council. […]
Jacques Magliolo Barlows’ latest financial results highlight the benefits of a major conglomerate unbundling its assets and turning a lumbering giant into a lean and streamlined organisation. Last week the group released its interim results and showed profitability unsurpassed in the last decade. With improvements coming from almost all its operations, the refocused Barlows has […]