ZIMBABWE will apply new licensing rules for fixed telephone line services following a Supreme Court ruling which broke a government monopoly of the market, the government said this week. The Supreme Court ruled that the monopoly on fixed lines held by the state firm, Posts and Telecommunications Corporation, was unconstitutional following an application by a […]

Duvall Pettway and Kojo Baffoe fashion South Africa’s fashion is experiencing a sort of volcanic eruption. As far as the calendar goes, one is not quite sure what to call the premier fashion event of the year. From the Redd’s Fashion in Da House to the recent Fashion Week and the GQ Man Of The […]

Neil Sonnekus one-print release of the week The problem with good people is that they are devilishly difficult to portray without seeming soppily dutiful or dramatically dull and, thanks at least in part to someone who lived about two millennia ago, they usually die young. That profound psychological insight probably helped give birth to modern […]

Merle Colborne places Across from the London Tailor Shop in Durban’s Madressa Arcade, the walls of the Colonial Hairdressing Salon are press-stuck with images of Hindu gods and a barber-shy Sai Baba. An abundantly-bearded client in a Muslim khurta has arranged himself in the veteran red leather, hand-carved oak chair with its weighty brass fittings, […]

As relatively new foreign market investors, South Africans need to be aware of the many pitfalls involved Neil Thomas It usually starts with an unsolicited phone call. The voice on the other end sounds very professional and knowledgeable about investments. They represent a company that sounds reputable, a name like Bradshaw Global Investments or Mendes […]

Valentine Cascarino Parallel lines never meet in science, but musically they’ve met in South Africa in the form of Kampi Moto and George Phiri. The two have recently combined their talents to produce a superb album, both acoustic and harmonious. If you ask Congolese youth who their favourite musician is, they’ll definitely say Papa Wemba. […]

Irwin Manoim The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer by Doron Swade (Little, Brown) Had Charles Babbage been a little more even-tempered, a little less inclined to turn friends into life-long enemies, perhaps your great-grandmother would have grown up playing computer games. Babbage invented a chess-playing computer more than […]

A bunch of new-wave ballerinas have borrowed what they can from cabaret and high fashion to update a classic Andrew Gilder The Fantastic Flying Fish Dance Company is no stranger to controversy. Its policy of following an “in-your-face” approach to choreography and production has garnered criticism from colleagues, public and press alike – most commonly […]

Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION I am currently overseas, enjoying a somewhat overdue topping up of my Eurocentricity, by way of some time in Spain, France, Italy and good old Blighty. I have therefore taken advantage of the chance to write two consecutive columns on more or less the same subject: the visual war that is being […]