Jean-Pierre Rossouw MOVEABLE FEAST SOME cities are weatherless. You can safely guess that the sun will set on a clear sky and rise again on the same spotless horizon. Not so in Cape Town. Here seasons have their own personalities, each of them distinct. So when a restaurant sets out a menu that tries to […]
HILTON JUDIN is a young architect who has set out to undermine the foundations of his profession. What drives him is the knowledge he was obliged to confront when doing research into low-cost housing in South Africa. What he saw as he worked his way through the archives of the locations and townships was the […]
Nearly three decades of sanctions and boycotts will have ended as Cape Town artist Malcolm Payne unveils his piece for the Venice Biennale.
Ann Eveleth SENIOR Inkatha Freedom Party leaders this week closed ranks around party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and engaged in a concerted damage-control exercise following the untimely leakage of the contentious “20- point plan” last week. While African National Congress leaders accused the party of launching a bid to secede KwaZulu/Natal from the rest of the […]
Pat Sidley WEDNESDAY — D-day for health warnings on tobacco advertising — was an ultra-light affair: * Many radio stations were exempted from broadcasting cigarette ads with health warnings. * Warnings on cigarette packs did not appear after being given a stay of execution * Some tobacco companies simply withdrew their ads from the marketplace. […]
Justin Pearce Those who’ve been worried about a return to PW Botha- era broadcasting can sleep peacefully once more. The government’s request for airtime on SABC radio and television is unlikely to get past the SABC board when it comes up for discussion next Wednesday. Although the matter has not yet been formally presented to […]
Barbara Ludman EIGHTY percent of black South Africans and about 40 percent of whites cannot read or compute at a Standard Five level, according to a report released this week. In the first-ever nationwide study of literacy, Indian respondents showed the highest average literacy levels. Coloured participants scored, on average, between black and white literacy […]
Stefaans Brummer FRESH evidence of South African arms fuelling civil wars in the killing fields of Rwanda, former Yugoslavia and Angola is threatening to eclipse the long-awaited findings the Cameron Commission is about to present to President Nelson Mandela. The report Judge Edwin Cameron, appointed last year to investigate irregular arms deals since 1990, is […]
Justin Pearce Aspirant community radio broadcasters are furious with the Independent Broadcating Authority (IBA) for apparently favouring religious evangelists and rightwingers in the granting of licences. The loudest objections come from organisations trying to set up stations aimed at black communities, who feel sidelined both by the IBA’s manner of operating, and in its choice […]
Rehana Rossouw Spanish shipbuilder Joaquin Coello left South Africa on Tuesday night an extremely disappointed man, after months of lobbying failed to secure a decision from Cabinet to give his company a contract to build four corvettes at the cost of R1,69- billion. Coello said he was assured by contacts in the Ministry of Defence […]