The infighting behind Cape Town’s attempt to host the 2004 Olympics is detailed in a new book Martin Gillingham Former Cape Town Olympic bid boss Raymond Ackerman has stepped up his campaign against Sam Ramsamy by claiming that the South African Olympic chief had told him the only way he could win the race to […]
Stewart Bailey Billiton is being tipped as the main beneficiary of its merger with Australian giant BHP, at least for the first year of their union. Brokers also believe BHP management could have haggled harder in negotiations with Billiton to cut a better deal for their shareholders. Australian broker Macquarie believes Billiton’s net current value […]
Isobel Frye A Second Look The two recent articles by Roshila Pillay (“North West suspends pension for disabled”, June 1 to 7; “They’ve taken away our dignity”, June 8 to 14) highlight the desperate plight of disabled persons dependent on the state for grant income when the income is withheld. One of the ongoing problems […]
Suzy Bell Fashion If fashion is a visual language, then most of the designers at this year’s Durban Designer Collection (DDC) were talking in tongues. Foreign tongues the kind you’d find in French and Italian Vogue. Foreign fashion bibles are fabulous for the designer lacking in imagination. The only designers that saved the DDC from […]
Access to anti-retroviral drugs is at the centre of legal battles between NGOsand the government Belinda Beresford In Mpumalanga the fight between provincial Minister of Health Sibongile Manana and an NGO that helps rape survivors is heading for the courts. The MEC is seeking to evict the Greater Nelspruit Rape Intervention Project (Grip) from rooms […]
David Shapshak food A caterer girlfriend of mine once asked what traditional Jewish dish she could put on a menu. “Pasta,” I replied. In the northern suburb shtetl that I hail from, pasta is as commonplace a meal as it is in Italy. The same goes for Italian restaurants neither owned nor staffed by Italians. […]
Maddy Costa CD OFTHEWEEK It’s not hard to see why people find Nick Cave irritating. The reasons are stamped all over his 11th album with the Bad Seeds, No More Shall We Part (Mute). Here we have the vehement, anguished, begging cries to God, the churning gothic atmosphere, the obsession with death and the histrionic […]
David Shapshak Apart from leaving the world with his crazy, eccentric comic genius, Douglas Adams created an online version of his famous eponymous travel-guide novel, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The online version, h2g2 (www. h2g2.com), is named after the Guide and is every bit as brilliant as any of Adams’s off-the-wall novels. It […]
David Shapshak It seems almost silly to have a remote control for a laptop. But if you are doing endless PowerPoint presentations the infrared device is a very welcome peripheral. It even has a built-in laser pointer and is appropriately slick and silver, much like the laptop itself. The remote is one of the features […]
Pule waga Mabe Observers and role players within the youth sector expect the National Youth Commission (NYC) to be addressing issues of youth unemployment, HIV/Aids and apathy. But there is little sign of any direct action at the commission’s plush offices, where more than three directorates deal with policy, communications and finance. Its electro-magnetic doors […]