Rick Whitaker Flights OFLOVE by Bernard Schlink (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) It is hard to love a book with as bad a title as Flights of Love. Even “Loveflights”, a translation that more closely resembles the original German title, Liebesfluchten, would give a better indication of what is in store for the reader of this collection […]
REVIEW David Shapshak Flash MX, R7 799 The invite to our wedding was done in Flash by my wife, who was then a Web designer. Watching her, and other Flash designers, work over the years has not been too different from watching programmers crush out code in a very user-unfriendly way. While many features of […]
The diamond giant’s deal with an empowerment company, giving it far-reaching rights, could breach competition law, writes Wisani wa ka Ngobeni Diamond giant De Beers has signed a confidential agreement with a black economic empowerment mining group that gives it extraordinary powers over the black company’s future dealings. The Mail & Guardian is in possession […]
The ANC’s single, one-opinion stance will continue to be overwhelmed by the multitude of opinions in the public arena NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe So, the African National Congress has decided to democratise medical science. It has dispatched spurious documents to its branches to enable members to come up with democratically informed scientific opinions. In […]
Designers can now build entire websites with the latest version of this program David Shapshak For the past few years the rich multimedia nature of the Internet was due in great part to one program, Flash. It let website designers add, well, flash, to their designs. Instead of the static nature of HTML, the coding […]
Wilhelm Disbergen That the Klein Karoo Nasional e Kunstefees (KKNK) resulted from a disgruntled Oudts- hoorn millionaire, Nic Barrow, unable to find a table at a restaurant during a Grahamstown festival a couple of years back, has been the subject of much local speculation. But speculation aside, few can refute the fact that the 8th […]
Ivorienne writer Veronique Tadjo is now living in South Africa. She spoke to Stephen Gray Veronique Tadjo has been resident in Johannesburg since last year, when her first novel, As the Crow Flies, was published in an English translation in the Heinemann African Writers Series. You were saying that your stay in South Africa has […]
The article about the Further Education and Training Curriculum (Grades 10-12) by David Macfarlane (March 22) is misleading, selective and based on misinformation. While it is true learners joining the Further Education and Training (FET) band in Grade 10 in 2003 will not be offered Curriculum 2005, it is reckless to suggest they will be […]
I refer to the article about land redistribution (“Rural revolt threat”, February 15). Like it or not, land redistribution favours big business and big business generates foreign income and therefore jobs. Brazilian studies, compounded by recent Zimbabwean land invasions, clearly indicate that idealistic policies do not and will not deliver. Urban drift continues at an […]
As the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees reaches its climax, we explore the gap between high art and commercial pop Andrew Gilder Among the new works of Afrikaans drama debuting at the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (KKNK) in Oudsthoorn are two (Gert Garrie and Die Goue Seun) that have strong Afrikaans literary connections. The former is […]