Anthony Egan MEMORY AGAINST FORGETTING by Rusty Bernstein (Viking ) Struggle autobiographies are becoming increasingly common – so common that one wonders if there is anything new to be said. The first chapter of this new book, however, dispels such fears. Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein’s autobiography is well-written and it contains a load of new and […]
Barry Streek The leading role of development in South Africa has to lie with the state, not with the private sector, African National Congress MP Ben Turok has written in a new book. The ANC had always assumed that a strong state apparatus would be required to establish a democratic system and that “the state […]
The David Gleason Column Well, the great gaming fiasco has taken yet another (almost predictable) turn for the worse. Having made up its collective mind on one occasion, the previous Gauteng executive council declared to the high court that it was entirely satisfied with its decision and then, instructed to rethink, reversed course and handed […]
Alex Dodd Sitting on Church Square sipping hot chocolate in the winter sunlight, you’d be forgiven for imagining for a moment that you were at a caf in Europe, and that’s probably why the French Institute has chosen the grand historic square as the spot to host its Bastille Day celebrations. In collaboration with the […]
Jean Pigozzi has been collecting African art for years, now he has gone one step further by creating the Pigozzi Prize for Contemporary African Art, writes Denise Rack Louw `I believe that contemporary African art will be to the new millennium what Pop Art was to the 1960s,” says renowned collector Jean Pigozzi. Pigozzi, an […]
Marianne Merten Six former Cape Town street children left for Germany for two weeks to meet other children at risk as part of a life-skills programme. It was the first time Shana Steer (14) from Mitchells Plain and Vuyiswa Nogioa (17) from Nyanga East left Cape Town. Both are excited and, by their own admission, […]
Another corruption row has erupted at the cash-strapped University of the North. Evidence wa ka Ngobeni reports.
Young Internet companies have found a niche conducting online auctions in ”virtual minute markets”. Karlin Lillington reports With names like Band-X, Min-X and InterXion, the array of young Internet companies looking for business in Dublin last month sounded like they might be selling online sex, or perhaps downloadable music. But the truth is much odder. […]
Shaun de Waal Live-action movie of the week In the Seventies John Waters made himself the Tsar of Trash with movies such as Mondo Trasho, Female Trouble and Pink Flamingos, in which laughably outrageous characters did risibly odd and sometimes disgusting things. Waters created an inverted aesthetic in which kitsch triumphs and bad taste is […]
John Matshikiza explains why the Japanese are heading for the hills Thank goodness we South Africans only believe in crime and witchcraft. While older countries have been going mad over the coming of the new millennium for several years, we have hardly even started bothering. Local councils around the country have already surrendered to the […]