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 […]
As part of a new management plan, the Kruger National park plans to reintroduce elephant culling Fiona Macleod The Kruger National Park is proposing to cull between 400 and 1E000 elephants a year over the next five years to control the elephant population in South Africa’s premier game park. No elephants have been culled in […]
John Patterson It’s a little disconcerting. In front of me is a mother of two in her mid-30s, well dressed with a blonde, bobbed hairdo. She looks like an archetypal soccer mom from the wealthy suburbs, probably drives a Ford Explorer, active in the parent/teachers association, gladly volunteers to help out at the school bake […]
Rupert Neethling Reverse engineering is a digital hot potato. Geeks love it because it lets them study how programming code is put together. Movie moguls hate it because the geeks went and cracked the code that keeps customers from playing Digital Video Discs wherever and on whatever platform they want. The final straw came when […]
Barbara Ludman LIFESTYLE Like most beautiful things, berries often promise more than they deliver. In its natural state, a raspberry is an illusion, a wisp of a taste somewhere just past the edge of the senses. Blueberries look bluer than they taste; mulberries aren’t worth the trouble of keeping the juice off your shirt; and […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION Can there have been a more gratifying triumph than that of Nando’s over the humourless prissmongers who succeeded in having the now famous guide-dog television commercial canned? God save me from ever praising an advertising outfit, but to Hunt Lascaris I bow my head in honour, especially for the way they came […]
David Le Page What network to choose? It’s a question that should probably tax us a little more when going on air, even though there are only two choices at present: Vodacom or MTN. The range of different billing plans offered by the two networks tends to make choosing between the two networks seem more […]
Julia Finch The impact of the second industrial revolution will be emphasised next week when one in 10 stalwarts of the FTSE 100 index is likely to be ditched in favour of new-economy stocks. The casualties could include many corporations – such as Imperial Tobacco, Whitbread and Scottish & Newcastle – whose histories predate World […]
over patients’ Mxolisi ka-Mankazana South Africa is failing in its fight against HIV/Aids at a time when other countries that have less economic, political and scientific clout than we do, such as Uganda and Tanzania, are gaining ground against it. This is despite the appointment by the previous health minister of a special director to […]
Neil Thomas TAKING STOCK Everybody in the investment industry knows it happens. It’s share price manipulation, an activity that skirts the border of legality depending on its scale and intention. But there’s little that can be done about it – many professional investors would rather nothing was done about it, regarding stock manipulation as just […]