The Mummy was one of the most enjoyable pieces of hokum of the mid-1999 season, and a huge hit. Now writer-director Stephen Sommers has followed it up with <b>The Mummy Returns</b>.
There’s nothing sentimental about globalisation and South Africa cannot afford to pass up an opportunity to steal ahead of competitors. With the Asian Tigers fumbling and Latin America headed for trouble, South Africa’s time has arrived. In the wake of the emerging market crisis in 1997/1998 South Africa emerged robust compared with its emerging-market peers. […]
whipping boy One of my favourite movies is Forrest Gump, the story of a fool who couldn’t lose. And anyone foolish enough to take the advice of this column last week will know the feeling. Having always been aware that boastfulness is evidence of a flawed character, especially in tipsters, I desisted after casually pointing […]
Moves are under way to address the public transport crisis, especially to get unroadworthy taxis off the roads. Glenda Daniels reports South Africa is on a massive collision course if the overhaul of the taxi industry does not speed up, if more money is not spent on roads and if plans to close sections of […]
David Macfarlane Rhodes University has delivered a further blow to hopes of dealing with the HIV/Aids pandemic in its region by slapping a high court injunction on dismissed academic Dr Robert Shell to return computer equipment, without which Shell’s research will cease. “Any outcome that has the effect of closing down [Shell’s] research and silencing […]
Barry Streek Over the past three years, the provincial governments have failed to spend the amounts allocated to them by the government for housing. In the 2000/2001 financial year the provinces underspent by R425,2-million, or 87,7% of the total allocated to them, even though two provinces, the Northern Cape and the Northern Province, overspent their […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo As South Africa approaches the 25th anniversary of June 16 1976, two schools have been involved in a project to get pupils to understand what National Youth Day is all about. Project coordinators say that instead of focusing on periodic workshops about the day, their project centres on educating the youth about June […]
Numerous anti-crime strategies have failed in the Western Cape, but for the first time there is hope that one will work, Marianne Merten reports The foundations for the first public park are being laid in gang-ridden Manenberg township on the Cape Flats. Although the green spot is in the middle of the Clever Kids gang’s […]
Sipho Seepe no blows barred Higher education has not escaped the post-1990 debates about societal transformation. In a short space of time we have had conferences, commissions, task teams and the passage of legislation to effect transformation of the system. Unfortunately, the debates have focused on the crudest and most visible vestiges and symbols of […]
Makhaya Jwara Deke When Rains Come by Mzi Mahola (Carapace) Telegraph to the Sky by Sandile Dikeni (Gecko) Mzi Mahola’s childhood in the outskirts of Alice in the Eastern Cape and early years as a boxer must have had an impact on the development of his voice as a poet. Village and outdoor life must […]