The Internet feels to many of its more spiritually-minded proponents like a hardwiring of human consciousness. If and when poor people and developing nations get access to these technologies, we will all have the means, at least electronically, to access one another’s information, opinions, and feelings. Although it will certainly occur more subtly than in […]
forgiveness There was something awfully satisfying about that klap Gideon Nieuwoudt got on the back of his head this week. For those who missed the story as told by the South African Press Association, Nieuwoudt – a former security policeman particularly notorious in the Eastern Cape – had gone to the Port Elizabeth home of […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi Remember Musa Myeni? He was the Inkatha Freedom Party firebrand who once threatened to unleash 150 000 Zulu impis on Gauteng to deal with township residents. That was during the violence in the early 1990s between IFP-aligned hostel dwellers and youths on the Reef. Seven years later, he has substituted his political ideology […]
Hazel Friedman Where there’s smoke there isn’t always fire. But there could possibly be a free air ticket. This is what panic-stricken passengers discovered this week after their flight was twice aborted as a result of a fire alert on board. Passengers at Johannesburg International airport had boarded their Virgin Atlantic aircraft en route to […]
for Savimbi Tangeni Amupadhi A former Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) agent named as the ring-leader in the theft of arms from military bases is now said to be organising mercenaries for Unita. Johan Niemoller, said to be the leader of Die Volk, whose members allegedly stole weapons from two military bases in the Free State, […]
Brenda Atkinson On show in Johannesburg The venue that hosts Holdings: Refiguring the Archive is the vast, arched, high-ceilinged former engineering block at Wits University. The spacious room in which the show is installed has 1970s-brown formica floors, odd built intrusions into space and the comfortable sepia of use. It’s an appropriate space for an […]
Fumane Diseko hit the streets to find out if sisters have felt the changes of the past four years Sam Canham (30), unemployed, from Durban `If a woman has been divorced, she should not pay taxes because they are the bread winners in the family and, at the end of the day, they have nothing […]
Arnold Kemp in Paris Tour de France It was 9.30pm when the police came for Rodolfo Massi, entering his hotel by a back door. They searched his room and found corticoids in a case. They gave him time to shower and eat before taking him to the police station. Then they drove him north from […]
Just pop down to the hardware Stuart Hess The world was shocked by the Oklahoma bombing in the United States in 1995, and the FBI was severely rattled by an explosion at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. In both instances, pipe bombs were the weapons of choice. More than 80 pipe bombs have exploded in […]
herStoriA and Quality Life magazines have announced the winners of their story competition. Lise Day of George took first place with her story Malgas Point, Henrietta Rose-Innes of Cape Town came second with Conservation, and Graeme Friedman of Johannesburg came third with The Finger of God. The winning stories are published in this month’s edition […]