Arthur Goldstuck On a road to nowhere RECONSTRUCTION and development has taken on new meaning in the Johannesburg suburb of Parkwood. About a month ago, a major road in the area was resurfaced. The next day, before the tar had even had time to set, excavators moved in and dug up the road. A representative […]
Nelson Mandela’s Budget speech last week was co-written by a dozen white female secretaries in Cape Town, a group of female squatters in Gauteng, and some coloured professionals in the Cape. And they didn’t even know it. Call it Rule by Focus Group. The impact of Clinton pollster Stanley Greenberg in the last election has […]
Access to a good education for all remains a crucial issue on the political agenda. Karen MacGregor looks at the battles that lie ahead A bold new approach to financing and organising South African schools is likely to be proposed by the government’s new review committee on school funding and The committee’s crucial task is […]
Jakes Gerwel, the Director General of the President’s Office, is the intellectual, erudite and politically savvy former rector of the University of the Western Cape. He was apparently Mandela’s first choice for Education Minister, but turned it down, insisting he did not want a life in either politics or the civil service. He now has […]
SAILING: Jonathan Spencer Jones JUST over seven months and some 27 000 miles after setting out from Charleston, United States, 35-year-old Frenchman Christophe Auguin on Sceta Calberson, sailed into the record books when he arrived back in Charleston on April 27 to capture his second straight Class I and overall victory — and the $100 […]
A programme focused on illegal immigrants won an Artes award for investigative journalism this week for Weekly Mail Television producer Harriet Gavshon, and Nicolaas Hofmeyr, who directed the episode. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday was flighted in the Ordinary People series. The programme showed police raids in restaurants and hotels; the deportation of an illegal immigrant; and, […]
Passing trend, ritual adornment or self-mutilation — whichever way you look at it, body piercing is ‘in’. Malu van Leeuwen investigates IN Tsukamoto’s cult film Tetsuo: The Iron Man, a metal fetishist inserts a large tubular bar of steel into an open, self-inflicted wound in his thigh. We may not have reached this level in […]
Reg Rumney Crime and violence have pushed their way to the top of the list of business people’s concerns. Business respondents to the Weekly Mail & Guardian survey put prevention of crime and violence as the top priority of the Government of National Unity (38 percent of respondents). Job creation is second, and ensuring delivery […]
CINEMA: Trevor Steele-Taylor WALERIAN BOROWCZYK’S infamous erotic fable The Beast (La Bete), made in 1975, is one of those curiously carnal works the French are so adept at. Echoes of the Marquis de Sade, Georges Bataille and Joris Karl Huysmans rub shoulders with the music of Domenico Scarlatti, the bestiary of Jean de la Fontaine […]
THE quota of elephants to be culled in the Kruger National Park this year will be cut by half and only “humane” methods will be used to kill them. This was announced by the National Parks Board yesterday after a marathon debate was held in Johannesburg between conservationists and animal rights groups over the controversial […]