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/ 7 November 2003
Artists are often called upon to donate their creativity to some worthy cause. Yesterday it was a benefit concert for those who failed to get a 4×4 out of the arms deal. Today it will be poetry evening for people living with spies. In the freebie charity stakes artists must be the most called upon professionals, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 7 November 2003
For more than a year the Scorpions kept their investigation of Deputy President Jacob Zuma a tightly controlled secret. When, in November last year, I finally managed to lay my hands on court papers I had been seeking, I was unaware just how explosive they would be, writes Sam Sole, 2003 Vodacom Journalist of the Year.
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/ 7 November 2003
A company connected to Mpumalanga minister for public works Steve Mabona got a multimillion-rand contract from his department — as did other companies associated with a Mabona relative. These contracts raise new conflict-of-interest questions about Mabona, whom the <i>M&G</i> last week showed to have received R1-million from another contractor to his department.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23202">If at first you don’t succeed…</a>
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/ 7 November 2003
<i>The Kwaito Generals</i> serves as a useful tool to document the key moments — and three key figures — in the decade-long evolution of the phenomenon that is today known as kwaito, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 7 November 2003
Patricia Schonstein is a poet and the prize-winning author of <i>Skyline</i>, a novel about African refugees. Her new novel, <i>A Time of Angels</i> (Bantam), is a magical-realist tale of the supernatural and the universal themes that continue to preoccupy humankind — love, war, betrayal, good and evil.
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/ 7 November 2003
By the mid-1960s, John Boorman was a young prospect being watched in the new British film industry. Boorman didn’t go to university, or was ever apprenticed in the theatre. But his work in television had shown an ability to transform routine magazine programmes with the fresh air of real, awkward lives, writes David Thomson.
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/ 7 November 2003
At Café Solipsist on Hollywood Boulevard the climate-controlled atmosphere had turned sour, like scum on a forgotten halfcaf-decaf-mochaccino-frappe-latte. Bradley and Jennifer Pitt poked listlessly at their polyunsaturated salads and avoided eye contact, while over at the bar Nick Cage and Tom Cruise compared jaw clenches.
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/ 7 November 2003
This week South Africa received a timely reminder of how fastidious international investors are. The country was also reminded of how the good we achieve as a country remains overshadowed by history, socio-economics and the burden of HIV/Aids.
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/ 7 November 2003
About a 10th of the population is gay or lesbian: three in a class of 30; 20 dancers at a disco of 200; 200 in a church congregation of 2 000 on Sunday mornings. But, because the rules are made by the great majority, who are not homosexual and do not understand their orientation, God help the homosexuals.
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/ 7 November 2003
Mere wealth transfer does not produce economic growth nor address poverty. We must accept that the meritorious goal of black empowerment may have a negative impact on economic growth and shrink our economic bases. Strategies must be developed to offset this, says Mangosuthu Buthelezi. The Democratic Alliance and the Inkatha Freedom Party spell out their policies on BEE.