NETWATCH The world is filling with computers at a rate unmatched by the proliferation of touch typists. Which, along with poor office furniture, Ricoffy and fluorescent lighting, can add to the discomfort of work. If you’re still a keyboard two-finger hunter and pecker, advance your interaction with computers and finally master the keyboard. There are […]
The tragic story of an 11-year-old girl whose leg was mangled by a tractor has spotlighted the use of child labour on South African farms Marianne Merten ‘Sometimes I forget the leg is gone,” says 11-year-old Waronice van Wyk. “I am unhappy, but I’m getting used to it.” She lost half her right leg in […]
Jubie Matlou More than two million South Africans will observe Water Week 2000 next week without adequate access to clean water and sanitation because of the extensive flood damage to water works infrastructure in Mpumalanga, the Northern Province and the North-West. The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry estimates the damage to infrastructure to be […]
Justin Arenstein Mpumalanga’s “prince of the dodgy deal” and suspended parks chief, Alan Gray, has been forced to sell his personalised M3 BMW and Land Rover after pleading poverty in the Nelspruit regional court. Gray’s attorney, Pieter Swanepoel, said this week Gray had been forced to “downscale” to a BMW 318i to help pay escalating […]
Members of Lesotho’s government have been implicated in the 1982 cross-border raid that claimed the lives of nine people Jubie Matlou Former police commissioner Johan van der Merwe is claiming personal responsibility for the December 1985 raid into Lesotho which resulted in the massacre of six underground African National Congress operatives and three Lesotho nationals. […]
Ivor Powell Shareholder agreements for the consortium that the South African Telecommunications Authority (Satra) has recommended for the third cellular license could make a mockery of the bid’s claims to promote black empowerment. Analysis of the agreements and founding documentation submitted by the Cell C consortium in support of its bid shows that the bid’s […]
Gregory Mthembu-Salter Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma concluded a four day visit to Burundi on Monday, rounding off a remarkable two weeks of intense South African involvement in efforts to stop this tiny Central African nation’s long-running civil war. The week before Dlamini-Zuma’s visit, former president Nelson Mandela had been in action in Arusha, […]
Shaun de Waal MOVIE OFTHEWEEK We have become accustomed, over many years now, to the sound of old-time jazz – accompanied by those plain white-on-black credits, always in the same slightly ornate, old-fashioned type – opening a Woody Allen movie. Now, for the first time, in Sweet and Lowdown, these jaunty strains signal the beginning […]
Matthew Krouse CD OFTHEWEEK I must have been 10. A difficult age to decide what you want when mother offers you a gift. I chose a Meccano set, my older sister demanded a copy of John Lennon’s album Imagine. By the time I turned 11 I was already bored with the Meccano, but somehow I […]
Shaun de Waal REVIEW OFTHEWEEK Showing simultaneously at Johannesburg’s Goodman Gallery are two shows by important young South African artists, but beyond that they have little in common: if one expects some kind of dialogue between Lisa Brice’s Work in Transit and Hentie van der Merwe’s ‘Trappings’, one may be left in a state of […]