Tara Turkington=20 I Want to Tell You by OJ Simpson=20 (Little, Brown, R80,99)=20 Orenthal James Simpson, ex-American football star,=20 congenial endorser of Hertz Rent-a-Car and mediocre=20 actor, ousted the United States’ afternoon TV soaps by=20 leading Los Angeles police on a televised car chase in=20 June last year. =20 Now on trial for the murders […]

CINEMA: Bafana Khumalo=20 SOWETO GREEN is one of those new South African hot=20 potatoes which make newspaper editors want to send black=20 reviewers to critique the film as opposed to white=20 reviewers, lest whities hate it and be accused of=20 racism. This is because the scriptwriter, Mfundi Vundla,=20 is a very well connected brother who […]

All has been relatively quiet on the industrial action=20 front so far this year. Reg Rumney reports.=20 Strike action has been relatively subdued so far this=20 year — but it is early days. Man days lost in the first=20 quarter of this year are low compared to the first=20 quarter of last year, according to […]

It’s not one of Tony O’Reilly’s 57 varieties, and you won’t find it in an Angela Day recipe book. It’s also kind of tricky to inhale … but soon to be available overseas is marijuana salad dressing. Those who have tasted it say it leaves Thousand Island in the dust. The oil is one of […]

The Budget did not reflect RDP priorities, according to the country’s biggest organised force, Cosatu. This is an edited version of the ANC-alliance partner’s Compared to apartheid Budgets, the 1995/6 Budget does have a number of positive features. Judged in terms of the fundamental shift required by the Reconstruction and Development Programme, however, the Budget […]

The police have agreed in principle they are responsible for frauds committed by convicted murderer Michael Bellingan, reports Stefaans Brummer This week’s murder conviction of security police captain Michael Bellingan has strengthened the quest of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) for compensation for police dirty tricks Agreement has already been reached […]

Affirmative action appointees are job-hopping for ever-higher salaries, reports Mapula Sibanda A new affirmative action trend is taking root in South Africa’s job market as skilled black recruits find themselves in short supply, and hop from one management post to another — sometimes changing positions for as little as R100. These moves would not have […]

THEATRE: David Le Page=20 IN the second act of The Twilight of the Golds, Phyllis=20 Gold suggests that the information age confuses people=20 with too much knowledge irrelevant to their experience.=20 This confusion could be ended if we just ”listened to=20 our hearts”, she says. Unfortunately, though The=20 Twilight of the Golds is highly topical […]

Bronwen Roberts Angry women’s groups are threatening to run a boycott campaign against Grahamstown stores which stock soft- porn magazines and posters. Several women attending a Rape Action Project panel discussion in the town on Tuesday night called for boycott action against sex magazines. A member of the audience said increasing numbers of children were […]

New evidence has surfaced suggesting links between Armscor and Ulster loyalist paramilitaries, reports Stefaans Brummer Top South African lawyers returned this week from Belfast in Northern Ireland with fresh evidence of collusion between Armscor and Ulster paramiliary groups. Now the Cameron Commission, which is investigating irregular Armscor deals, will be asked to extend its probe […]