The Simpsons America’s favourite dysfunctional family. Jammed with cultural references, Matt Groening’s creation has maintained its high standards since 1989. King of the Hill The brainchild of Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judge. The suburban humdrum of Hank Hill and family is given droll treatment in an intelligent show. Daria A cult success on both […]
Greyville celebrates the first weekend of the racing season with a 12-race programme on Saturday, including three grade 2 events and, of course, the R500000 grade 1 Gold Cup over 3200m. The traditional pipe-opener handicap has attracted a full field of 20, which includes David Payne’s Durban July third Double Reef. Stable jockey Kevin Shea […]
Mboniso Sigonyela It is rare that a company finds a non-executive of Vincent Mntambo’s calibre. He has a master’s degree in law from Yale and is credited with the miraculous turnaround at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration where he is chairperson. Mntambo joins the Aveng board with effect from July 31 as a […]
Glenda Daniels The tripartite alliance is balanced on a knife-edge as talks deadlocked this week between the African National Congress and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) over the government’s privatisation policies. Cosatu says it will engage in a two-day strike on August 29 and 30 with a build-up of half-day strikes and […]
Peter Kingston Here’s a whopping conundrum. For eight years you’ve been toiling on your thesis about the British post-war far left, as it happens and you’re within a spit of the doctorate. The examiners want you to rejig the thesis introduction and resubmit it. On the other hand, a song you’ve written for your band […]
REVIEW David Shapshak Motorola v.8088 The best thing about Motorola phones, a friend who lives in the United States and cherishes his tells me, is that they come apart when you drop them. The kinetic energy from the fall dissipates when the parts unclip, he says. Then it puts it all back together again. I […]
Glenda Daniels Development studies in South Africa are to receive a major boost as Wits University prepares to launch a new postgraduate initiative in the field. “This will entail the largest development network in the country and the continent,” says Professor Belinda Bozzoli, head of social sciences, who is spearheading the project. Three faculties will […]
The aim of education should not be merely to reproduce things such as family and society as they are at present, but to use our energies to generate something better, argues Donald Moerdijk Coline Serreau is a feminist film director whose work deserves more attention than it has so far received. In a series of […]
comment Mbuyiselo Botha The South African Men’s Forum is one of the stakeholders organising the Gender Summit and has been playing an advocacy role in the Commission on Gender Equality. For Women’s Day, on August 9, the forum has called on men to move away from the sidelines and to become a greater presence in […]
Niki Moore The KwaDapha camp at Kosi Bay where slain academic David Webster lived while he did his anthropological research a monument to the anti-apartheid martyr is again the focus of controversial activities. Unlawful tourism developments have sprung up next to Webster’s camp, destroying pristine coastal forest. KwaZulu-Natal wildlife officials are powerless to prevent five […]