The Department of State Expenditure is considering using=20 hi-tech methods to get to grips with the tricky task of=20 transforming its almost exclusively white male staff to=20 something more representative of all South Africans. Director General Hannes Smit this week told the=20 parliamentary finance committee that he had been unable to=20 fill vacancies in his […]
Three new books on the 1950s freeze history in photographs,=20 HAZEL FRIEDMAN. Is this a valuable lesson or just wallowing=20 in nostalgia? FOR each of us there is a special time and place on which=20 is indelibly stamped the word “golden”. Part reality, part=20 myth — the rough edges and contradictions blurred by=20 memory — […]
Classical Music: Coenraad Visser ANTON NEL, the South African pianist now attached to the=20 University of Michigan, concluded his stay with the=20 National Symphony Orchestra with a pedestrian performance=20 of Bartok’s third piano concerto. Playing from the score,=20 Nel showed strong and nimble fingers, but not much else.=20 This concerto finds the composer at his […]
Gaye Davis A NEW “super-committee” aimed at slicing through red-tape and other obstacles hampering investigations into police violations of human rights is to be set up at national The move comes days after human rights organisations released a 300-page report charging that police torture of suspects on criminal charges was endemic and that other abuses […]
>From air force technician to air-cowboy, Gert de Klerk is now challenging SAA. Stefaans BrUmmer reports GERT de Klerk, the self-made millionaire head of Avia Airlines, South Africa’s only independent carrier to have secured a London passenger route, jump-started his career making clandestine cargo flights to Angolan rebel territory in the 1980s. Seen by some […]
Mandela added to the discomfort of mine owners when he announced that he was giving his own money to the fund for the victims of a mine disaster.
With rugby in South Africa no longer just for whites, radio=20 commentary of the World Cup will be in all 11 official=20 RUGBY: Barney Spender WITH the World Cup rollercoaster gathering pace, and black=20 market tickets for the big games already changing hands at=20 silly prices, it is important to stop and reflect for a=20 […]
Eddie Koch BLAST, lash, haul and crush. The words that describe the essential stages of gold production on South African mines are drawn from the imagery of battle. When Sotho miners go underground to do these tasks, they sometimes sing a song with a chorus line that says liphoro tsa mali, liphoro — floods of […]
Rehana Rossouw A THREAT by central government to withdraw its financial support for transport provision for the 2004 Olympic Games bid has sent Cape Town’s planners scrambling to get the wheels of an interim transport masterplan for the city rolling by the end of this month. At stake is R470-million promised by the government for […]
Mike Loewe Champagne flowed and there were cheers, tears, hugs and kisses when Rhodes Music Radio went on air on Wednesday With the words: “Welcome Grahamstown! This is Rhodes Music Radio,” station manager Glenn Loggerenberg launched the station on the 89.7 Mhz FM band at 7 am. Walters, who also serves as technical officer for […]