Erika Schutze Ten years after Volvry, the now-legendary national tour by an amalgamation of Afrikaans alternative bands, young Afrikaners are once again refusing to define themselves along narrow ethnic lines. A book launch in a nightclub is a rare occurrence. In this case, hosting the launch of Arnold Vermaak’s book, Buys, at the Jam in […]
devalued Deon Potgieter Boxing The days when the best boxer in a respective weight division was the national champion are long gone. Once these men were just a step away from the greatness of an international title. But with the current 17 weight divisions and around 13 world title sanctioning bodies, compared to one world […]
Mercedes Sayagues Body Language Tuesday, April 6: An old flame who lives halfway around the world e-mails, professing eternal lust and shall we meet for cybersex at this website for shoe fetishists? Why not? says I. We make a date for Saturday at 10pm. I had been considering an upgrade of my e- mail link […]
Emeka Nwandiko First Person Recently my journalistic colleague and friend Angella Johnson penned a piece for a United Kingdom newspaper expressing disappointment at the xenophobic attitudes of black South Africans, which forced her to quit the country. Johnson wrote: “In the three years I lived and worked in post-apartheid South Africa, hardly a week passed […]
While investigators stay on the trail of the policemen who allegedly assisted disgraced policeman Piet Meyer in setting up his crime empire, Paul Kirk reveals how the man described as `the biggest gangster in Durban’ came to fall The arrest of Senior Superintendent Piet Meyer, provincial commander of organised crime unit in Kwa Zulu-Natal, had […]
The shades of Joe Slovo must have looked down on the Helena Dolny “scandal” with a sense of irony over the past week. It was, after all, The Star newspaper which accused the South African Communist Party leader during the apartheid era of having murdered his wife, Ruth First. Now it is The Star which […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube It’s said that it’ll be the crowning act of global youth culture, set to stop the century in its tracks. This weekend, half- a-million people will pay in excess of $150 each for a bash at what they believe will be the first and greatest millennial party scheduled. Woodstock ’99, […]
Neil McIntosh Apple Computer is set to unveil its revolutionary consumer laptop, which will combine cutting-edge design with new engineering techniques in a package priced below the company’s existing PowerBook range. An industry analyst who has been briefed by Apple engineers says the machine, pitched at students and home users, will be introduced by Apple […]
Howard Barrell New Minister of Health Dr Manto Tshabalala- Msimang is reviewing the ban on the use of the antiretroviral drug AZT by HIV-positive pregnant women to prevent infection of their unborn children. She is also leading a group of South African HIV/Aids experts to Uganda early next month to investigate the Central African country’s […]
Barry Streek Parliament has a constitutional deadline of midnight February 3 next year to pass two potentially controversial new laws entrenching the right of access to state information and ensuring administrative justice. If the Open Democracy Bill is not enacted by February 3 2000, Section 32 of the Constitution will stand: “Everyone has the right […]