Puppets will magic away the mundane conventions of teaching science in an innovative multimedia series starting on NNTV this week, writes David Le Page A MULTIMEDIA approach to primary science education developed entirely in South Africa, and already acclaimed overseas, is to be launched today with the broadcasting of the first of thirteen half-hour episodes […]

Eddie Koch The African National Congress this week released details about how members can bring charges against individuals in the movement accused of breaching the party’s code of conduct before its disciplinary According to a draft disciplinary procedure drawn up by the organisation’s national executive committee, charges can be “initiated for violations of the basic […]

Gary Cummiskey=20 SOUTH AFRICAN REVIEW 7: The Small Miracle edited by Steve=20 Friedman and Doreen Atkinson (Raven Press, R49,99)=20 THE Small Miracle is a compilation of essays and the sequel=20 to The Long Journey, which traced the story of Codesa I and=20 II. This wide-ranging new volume focuses on events and=20 issues from Codesa to […]

What ‘s worse than not having a ticket to the big match? Having a ticket but not making it to the game, writes Jon Swift THE phone call came in the early hours of Friday morning. The language emanating from the instrument was a choice mix of the more neanderthal part of Nether-landic and the […]

Nicholas Lezard WHEN asked “Read any good books this year?”, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernires (Minerva) is the one that has most consistently sprung to mind. It is a story of the Italian occupation of Cephallonia in World War II — a conventional historical epic, it’s the kind of book you’d take on […]

The Kriegler Commission report on last year’s prison unrest went largely unnoticed, but it made some important recommendations on penal reform, writes Bronwen Manby THE long-awaited publication on May 5 of the final report of the Kriegler Commission, appointed by the President to look into the causes of the unrest in prisons following the election […]

Eddie Koch SLEAZE, secrecy and corruption are targets of the toughest action taken in Britain this century to enforce ethical behaviour by MPs in the House of Prime Minister John Major’s cabinet last week accepted the broad thrust of the controversial Nolan Committee’s report, which laid down “seven principles of public life” to guard against […]

The Beatles came back, the Stones kept going — and Blur and Oasis echoed an old rivalry, writes Shaun de Waal TWENTY-FIVE years after they broke up, The Beatles are back — well, sort of. The band broke up in 1970, and John Lennon was killed in 1980, but in 1995 the remaining Beatles put […]

The theme of this year’s World Environment Day, being=20 staged in South Africa for the first time, is rooted in the=20 struggle for democracy and unity Eddie Koch reports SOME years ago Albie Sachs, then the ANC guru on=20 constitutional matters, wrote that an end to apartheid was=20 the balm that would mend the scars […]

SOCCER: Gerald Combrinck=20 AFTER their defeat in the BP Top final, log leaders Kaizer=20 Chiefs have a score to settle with Wits when the two sides=20 meet in a league game at Milpark on Saturday.=20 “We are ready to destroy Wits in revenge for the cup=20 defeat,” said Chiefs PRO Louis Tshakoane.=20 Wits are likely […]