In an extract from a forthcoming catalogue, fundis reflect on South African Fashion Week’s first decade.
If South African designers are to develop an identity that reflects the country, they needed to show their collections jointly on an open platform, writes Lucilla Booyzen.
The 2005 <i>Financial Mail</i>/Empowerdex survey rated Telkom as the most empowered of all 184 companies on the JSE. With 70% of Telkom’s top management being black, the company’s leadership particularly understands the needs of the impoverished, as most have risen up the corporate ladder from extremely modest beginnings, writes the executive of corporate communication at Telkom, Lulu Letlape.
One Bobby Godsell, one and a half Phuthuma Nhlekos, 12 Thabo Mbekis, two Maria Ramoses, 20 Phillippe Troussiers, 20 Pitso Mosimanes, 12 Jake Whites or even 45 Zwelinzima Vavis. If you have R12-million to spend buying top talent, that’s what your money will get you. Or one Carlos Alberto Parreira.
South Africa accounts for about half of the carbon emissions on the continent, says Richard Worthington of Earthlife Africa. He said the country has an "energy-intensive economy that produces among the highest rates of greenhouse gas emissions globally". For instance, South Africa produced 6,91 tonnes per person of fuel combustion carbon dioxide compared to Africa’s average of 0,86 tonnes per person.
Monako Dibetle and photographer Oupa Nkosi join the Zionists in a Melville nature reserve for overnight prayers.
Jacob Zuma has finally unveiled his conspiracy claims and, after all the hype, the evidence he presents is surprisingly insubstantial. One thread of his voluminous application for a permanent dismissal of the charges is his claim that the case is essentially malicious, and has been pursued to stop him becoming president.
At the end of last month, some of the world’s most powerful companies took a first step towards saving the Amazon rainforest from the ravages of soya cultivation. An unlikely union of Greenpeace, McDonald’s and leading United Kingdom supermarkets successfully pressured multinational United States-based commodities brokers into signing a two-year moratorium on buying soya from newly deforested land in the Amazon.
There are two approaches to mathematics in this world, and both are elegantly laid bare by a bigamist, noisily en route to St Ives. This wanderer, you will recall, was accompanied by seven wives, each of whom had seven sacks. Every sack contained seven cats, and every cat had seven kits. Given the general pandemonium that this caravan would have created as it passed by, caterwauling and kvetching, one could forgive roving census-takers for fudging their figures that day.
Brent Meersman takes a look at the revival of Athol Fuggard’s play, <i>Sizwe Banzi is Dead</i> at the 2006 National Arts Festival.