Fiona Macleod American pro-hunting lobbies are calling in the big guns to put pressure on the Botswana government to lift a ban on hunting lions in the Southern African country. George Bush, former United States president and father of current President George W Bush, heads up a lobby group convened by Safari Club International (SCI), […]
Nawaal Deane It has been almost 10 years since the Office for Serious Economic Offences (OSEO) began investigating allegations that attorney Ntehdi Bogoshi defrauded clients who were making claims against the Multilateral Motor Vehicle Fund. He has yet to be charged. The reason for this decade-long delay, according to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions, is […]
Barry Streek Many prominent Cape Town companies still own dismal hostels in the city’s townships and are hindering the redevelopment plans of the city council. Thousands of people are cramped into the decrepit and unhygienic buildings described as “appalling” by a development organisation helping to upgrade them. In the apartheid era the government actively encouraged […]
Marianne Merten In December 1986 Benjamin Olifant was on his way to visit his mother when Klerksdorp police arrested him for “causing unrest”. He was shot dead in a police cell. Elsie Olifant received interim reparations of R2000. More than 30 months after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) recommended various forms of reparations for […]
Alec Hogg Boardroom talk AME is set for better days. The JSE-listed penny stock owns 15% of the new undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion and the right to promote his first title defence. A $250 000 punt on American heavyweight boxer Hasim Rahman turned to gold early on Sunday for African Media Entertainment (AME). In […]
John Stremlau a second look Twenty years after the first nuclear explosion Albert Einstein issued his famous lament about politics falling behind physics. “The unleashed power of the atom,” he warned, “has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophes.” Africa’s contributions to the nuclear age were poignant but […]
Shaun de Waal CD OFTHEWEEK Clint Mansell’s score for the film Requiem for a Dream (Nonesuch) contributed in no small measure to the devastating impact of that nerveshredding tale of addiction. It works very well, even separated from the movie, employing a mode somewhere between Philip Glass and Bernard Hermann, with some very original twists. […]
Peter van der Merwe John Platter South African Wine Guide 2001 edited by Phillip van Zyl (Andrew McDowall) Wines and Vineyards of South Africa by Wendy Toerien (Struik) The Sunday Telegraph Good Wine Guide 2001 by Robert Joseph (Dorling Kindersley) Wine snobbery is a puzzling phenomenon, to say the least. Let’s face it, few can […]
Johannesburg architects Jeremy Rose and Phill Mashabane recently won the Robben Island architectural competition Yvette Gresl In postapartheid South Africa Robben Island has taken on a dual significance. It is a contradictory symbol of extreme political subjugation and, in the words of Ahmed Kathrada, the “triumph of the human spirit”. Nelson Mandela, as a symbol […]
Melvyn Minnaar In the past those who fancied themselves in the frontline of the vintage would have been sipping brandnew “nouveau” wines with their autumn braais right now. Bubbling with fresh fruit and nifty modern winemaking methods ?this fad of getting new wine out under the new vintage label has mercifully?faded around here. In a […]