Ulrike Kistner on the world of work and the world of learning the making of a beautiful fit If job ads are anything to go by, hirers of educated free labour power in plentiful supply are looking for adepts in management, policy, strategy, service and leadership. Sought-after virtues include initiative, self-motivation, innovativeness, “enthusiasm for transformation”, […]
But unions say the new curriculum could fall flat on its face if implementation is not up to scratch David Macfarlane An exceptionally bold language policy forms a major part of the new school curriculum released in draft form this week. But the draft lacks any detailed budget for implementation, raising questions about how successfully […]
Is the ANC’s glass half empty, or half full, asks Reg Rumney When it comes to the African National Congress’s record in government purely in terms of its own goals, is the glass half full or half empty? That question is more than a matter of natural pessimism or optimism. Assessing the government’s record of […]
David Macfarlane The catch-22 is depressingly familiar: you’re an arts postgraduate with no work experience, but organisations won’t hire you because you have no work experience. So how do you acquire work experience? Employers are increasingly reluctant to hire people solely on the basis of the traditional job interview. For the humanities graduate eager to […]
Coriaan de Villiers Labour law seeking to reform the sex work industry needs to take cognisance of ”indoor” sex workers. And though there is a rapidly expanding sex work industry in South Africa, it is unlikely there will be a significant change to laws that criminalise adult commercial sex work at least in the near […]
The festival failedto connect to its major market of young, single Afrikaners who floodinto the UK in their thousands Adam Welz in London London’s Afrikaans community arranged its first major singing and dancing arts and crafts get-together here last week. UKkasie, billed as the first Afrikaans cultural festival to be held outside South Africa, took […]
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Enemy at the Gates mixes imagination and truth, writes James Meek.
Some works are fantastical, some are quasi-realist portraits, some are whimsically kitsch and some are abstract, writes Chris Roper.
Two years ago David Beresford visited the set of <i>The King is Alive</i>, the Dogme 95 film that opened at cinemas last week.