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 […]

Anton Harber ponders the political future of arch-populist Winnie Mandela, now free to speak her mind Watch Tokyo Sexwale. He’s our one true television politician, the master of the sound bite. “We love you,” he said this week, clearly referring to Winnie Mandela, though not by name. “We love you. Don’t abuse our love.” It […]

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 […]

Justin Pearce THERE’S almost R1 000 in banknotes taped to the window of the manager’s office at Hillbrow’s Fontana bakery. Well, it looks like a thousand bucks’ worth. In fact, all of the notes are fakes, and all have been handed over the counter since January this year. “It’s rife around here,” says manager Basil […]

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 […]

Nicholas Lezard=20 CIGARETTES ARE SUBLIME by Richard Klein (Picador,=20 R39,99) =20 AN academic of Richard Klein’s — middlingish — age=20 would normally by now have published three or four=20 unreadable books. This is his first, and it’s excellent.=20 A valedictory hymn to the poetry of cigarettes, as well=20 as a thrilling work of literart criticism […]

Despite all Derek Hanekom’s efforts the ANC might well have to resort to ‘radical measures’ to solve the land issue, argues Richard Levin WHEN white farmers reacted with outrage recently at plans to introduce a land tax in the countryside, Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom made a simple appeal to them: give the landless some […]