Sechaba ka Nkosi A controversial deal brokered between the SABC and MultiChoice to alter satellite television in South Africa has been put on ice. The move follows a detailed protest memo to the broadcasting ministry from the SABC’s main signal distributor, Sentech, and a series of meetings among stakeholders. Questions have also been raised about […]
Piet Gouws and PH `Tienie’ Groenewald A SECOND LOOK A serious problem has developed in the platteland. Brutal attacks against the farming community have reached such alarming proportions that, even though farmers are creating security structures to ensure their own safety and that of their labourers, the number of farmers in certain districts on the […]
Charl Blignaut On stage in Johannesburg If what it takes for a talented young black co-writer and director to get his latest play mounted on the main stage at the Market Theatre is a Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Drama, an acclaimed United States tour and an artistic directorship at the North West arts […]
No child has ever fallen in love with reading from being given a textbook, argues Jay Heale It is well known that there is a crisis in education in this country. But there is one aspect of this agonising situation which seems to have been overlooked. We are so anxious to teach children how to […]
David Hirst The Sudanese opposition, a broad coalition of African southerners and Arab Muslim northerners known as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), held a conference in Cairo this month to plan the next stage of its struggle against the Khartoum government. It is the first time Egypt has hosted such a gathering, and it is […]
Karlin Lillington For most earthlings, just finding a hotel with Internet access is a challenge. Nasa, however, thinks big. The space agency intends to have Mars “Internet-enabled” in the next three to four years. Last week at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Dr Vinton Cerf, a senior vice-president at telecom company MCI, joined […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 3.00PM. POLICE raided six computer retailers in Durban and Cape Town this week, uncovering counterfeit software — mainly sourced from Asia — worth R4,5 million. Attorney Marco van der Merwe, who acts for the Business Software Alliance, said on Friday: “This was a very sophisticated counterfeit product. It would […]
With the controversy surrounding Mark Hipper’s portraits of naked children still simmering, Fiona MacCarthy reports on an exhibition of Lewis Carroll’s photographs of little girls Xie Kitchin, little girl photographed as a pert Chinaman, perched in skimpy silk kimono on a pyramid of tea boxes. Alice Liddell dressed up as a small beggarmaid, rags falling […]
Karen Jackman A new computer game designed to make Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution fun for biology students has earned an international award for its South African inventor. For the average 18-year-old, stepping into a new life as a university student does not involve donning a biohazard suit, digging up the missing link or tracking […]
Steve Smith Live in Cape Town I once read this astute statement somewhere (Q magazine, I think): “A significant measure of a band’s ability is how they approach cover songs.” Witnessing a gig shared by Cape Town bands Fever Pussy and Blunt, the accuracy of that yardstick was once again confirmed. One band got it […]