Moses Qomoyi Right to Reply It is not at all clear what Ted Baumann and Diana Mitlin are attempting to prove in “The unpleasant truth of housing delivery” (Letters, May 21 to 27). Although their article appears to be intended as a critique of housing delivery, it develops into a general attack on South Africa’s […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week I remember taking my first cap of LSD (it was only a quarter) in 1982 when I saw Steven Lisberger’s Tron, which had Jeff Bridges as a computer programmer caught up in a game. The drugs and, for that time, dazzling special effects seemed to cancel everything out. I […]
Shaun de Waal THE LIVES OF ANIMALS by JMCoetzee et al (Princeton) JM Coetzee’s is the only name that appears on the cover of The Lives of Animals, but he is not the book’s sole author. His text, however, a long two-part story, is the centrepiece around which the others revolve. This text was delivered […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube It would be dangerous to flippantly dismiss Felicia Mabuza-Suttle’s current attack on evil as a crowd-pulling attempt at sensationalism. But in the way she presents herself, Mabuza-Suttle gives one no choice. The first part of her double show on child abuse, broadcast on SABC1 on May 24, was a case […]
again A Super 12 rugby victory has once more slipped away from SouthAfrica. Andy Capostagno looks at some of the reasons for the failure Prepare the cold soup, it’s an all-New Zealand final. The Super 12 has again eluded a South African team, just when it seemed that the Stormers offered the best chance since […]
voters Marianne Merten It is going to be a tough choice for voters between the premier candidates of the Western Cape’s two largest political parties. Neither African National Congress chair Ebrahim Rasool nor New National Party provincial leader Gerald Morkel is regarded as charismatic or people able to sway the province’s large number of undecided […]
MILITARY personnel are now allowed to join labour unions, following a Constitutional Court ruling on Wednesday, but this does not give them the right to go on strike. The Court has confirmed a 1998 Pretoria High Court ruling that an Defence Act ban on military personnel belonging to unions is unconstitutional. The South African National […]
SAM Ramsamy will be a member of an International Olympic Committee (IOC) reform commission meeting next week, the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (Nocsa) said on Thursday. Ramsamy, the president of Nocsa, will be one of 80 delegates on the commission which meets for the first time in Lausanne on Tuesday. The commission was […]
Roger Ballen’s photographs are simple black and white images. The reactions they provoke are far more complex. Brenda Atkinson delves beneath the surface Arranging to interview Roger Ballen was becoming difficult. Not because he was difficult to get hold of, but because he insisted, holding me to the prospect like someone in a photograph, his […]
all In a recent edition of the American Bar Journal, the problem of race in the legal profession received comprehensive analysis. Black lawyers speak of glass ceilings in white legal firms, black jurors refer to the manner in which they are distrusted by white counsel and black candidates for judicial office report on significant racial […]