tirades Howard Barrel’s Over a Barrel column (September 18 to 24) was a tirade, without an ounce of sober and investigative journalistic skill. According to Barrell, the workers who embark on strikes are mad and “stupid beyond belief”. According to him, the present international and domestic economic climate should deter those who “willy- nilly” down […]

Angella Johnson VIEW FROM A BROAD There I was, happily driving my white BMW 323i series along a stretch of winding Midrand road on a balmy Tuesday afternoon. The window was down and a cool breeze blew gently on my face as, oblivious to my surroundings, I slowed at a quiet stop street. Suddenly, out […]

Vivek Chaudhary It is perhaps still the most memorable 90 minutes in the history of female athletics. Under a bright Seoul sky, Florence Griffith- Joyner’s dazzling running suit glistened like silver foil in the afternoon sun as her talon-like fingernails, immaculately painted red, white, blue and gold, stretched out in front of her as she […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 7.00pm. FORMER Pan Africanist Congress president Clarence Makwetu has been reinstated as a member of the party and as an MP, but will resign his seat with immediate effect and retire from active politics. Makwetu was accused of sowing disunity in the PAC and his membership was suspended for three […]

Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week `A chinese box doesn’t really exist,” said director Wayne Wang in an interview with Hollywood Online. “I tried to find one … I looked everywhere, but it doesn’t exist. It’s a metaphor for a box which, when you open it, leads to another box, then you open that box […]

Ever been allowed into a movie for free and been allowed to drink beer and talk when you want to? Jean Barker visited Cape Town’s BioCafe Beers are R3, entrance is free, and everyone is at the BioCafe on Wednesday evenings long before the short film screening starts, chatting and drinking. The chatting and drinking […]

Mike Finch Commonwealth Games South Africa’s track and field athletes returned home from the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday clutching 11 medals – their biggest haul at a major event since returning to the international scene in 1993. Unfortunately, only one of the medallists was black. Olympic 800m runner Hezekiel Sepeng, almost a veteran member of […]

Peter Frost On show in Cape Town They’re celebrating. The State Theatre Ballet and Cape Town City Ballet’s (CTCB) inaugural joint venture has succeeded. In an evening characterised by energy and verve, the combined companies took on two “imported” works and one home-grown piece, each quite different from the other. Few people held out much […]

Wally Mbhele Azanian People’s Liberation Army commander Phila Dolo was granted amnesty last week by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for killing a policeman and possession of a firearm and ammunition. He had been serving a life sentence. But the commission postponed a decision on Dolo’s plea for amnesty in the 1993 Eikenhof massacre in […]

Howard Barrell A group of leading South African scientists is putting together a R50- million project to develop a vaccine to fight what Deputy President Thabo Mbeki and others have called the country’s gravest threat, the HIV/Aids epidemic. The scientists believe South Africa has a window of opportunity in which to develop a vaccine which […]