The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Friday said that the recently announced closure of clothing manufacturer Rex Trueform’s Salt River plant threatened to put another 1Â 000 people out of work in the Western Cape and bring the clothing, textile and leather industries one step closer to complete collapse.
The national government has been accused of misleading the public over a 10-year period about its progress in combating adult illiteracy. The astonishing litany of misrepresentation is set out in a paper by University of KwaZulu-Natal academics Professor John Aitchison and Anne Harley.
Documents obtained by the Mail & Guardian belie claims by former Vista University administrative chief Reuben Mbuli that there was no conflict of interest when he accepted a hefty ”retainer” from a businessman trying to secure work from the university. These documents rubbish claims that the ”retainer” was received for private legal work, as Mbuli claimed in a letter to the M&G a fortnight ago.
The Young Communist League believes the South African Communist Party may vote at a special conference next month to go it alone in this year’s local elections .
Young Communist League secretary general Buti Manamela said: ”As far as we know, the dominant position in the party is that we should contest power through elections.”
From March 18 your movie experience will change utterly. Ster-Kinekor has announced that 80% of its movie houses will be turned into ”discount venues”, where seats will be unallocated and cost R14 each. In a move to revitalise cinema-going, hit by home entertainment and pricey tickets, the 30 ”Junction” movie houses will be largely located in malls used by black people.
Property mogul Norman Benjamin and his accountant Emiliya Peneva, at the centre of a R16-million empowerment scandal in the Eastern Cape, were arrested this week following a Mail & Guardian exposé. The Joint Anti-Corruption Task Team took Benjamin and Peneva into custody in Cape Town on Monday. They appeared in the city’s magistrate court charged with fraud.
Movie director Rodney Evans, a guest of this year’s Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, writes about the making of his award-winning feature film <i>Brother to Brother</i>. The work follows the emotional journey of a young artist who discovers the hidden legacies of gay subculture within the Harlem renaissance.
A Led Zeppelin, Cat Stevens and Snoop Dogg fan, Katie Melua represents the new generation of artists on the music scene. Extensive travel has taught Melua the ways of the world, writes Nadia Neophytou.
If you turn the stereo to its maximum volume will you hear nothing as you’ve made silence so loud as to obliterate noise?" Is this question philosophical, metaphorical or literal? Zambian artist Anawana Halowa’s installation <i>Loud Silence</i> somehow manages to skid among a number of questions, observes Alex Sudheim.
Having just won the prestigious Linares tournament in Spain, Garry Kasparov announced that he was quitting professional chess. A colleague asked me what it meant. I said it was the equivalent of Ronaldinho suddenly turning his back on
professional soccer: a genius, the world’s greatest player, unexpectedly packing it in.