Sherilee Bridge and Ferial Haffajee The stronger gold price is no guarantee the haemorrhaging of jobs in the mining industry will cease, although trade unions are likely to use it as a bargaining tool. The National Union of Mineworkers said this week it will begin to negotiate the recall of thousands of retrenched workers and […]
Chris Dunton LET US PLAY edited by Zakes Mda (Vivlia, R30) Let Us Play gathers together three plays – one by the editor, Zakes Mda, and one apiece by Walter Chakela and Hilton Swemmer. Three distinctive works for the theatre, by three dramatists associated with Johannesburg’s Windybrow Centre, the first two are especially designed for […]
South African photographer David Goldblatt’s exhibition opens at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this month. Alex Dodd speaks to him about the structure of things now and then The thing that sticks in my mind about that first conversation with photographer David Goldblatt is his insistence on the absence of a colon. […]
Brett Hilton-Barber Racial differences between people may be a more recent phenomenon than was previously believed. In a paper presented to the Dual Congress of Human Biology and Palaeontology at Sun City this week, renowned academic Dr Christopher Stringer suggested that white skin colour probably emerged only 30 000 years ago. This is some 30 […]
Mungo Soggot Minister of Minerals and Energy Penuell Maduna has hit back after his embarrassing concession that the auditor general was not party to the theft of R170-million worth of oil by releasing documents to help explain his attack on the finance watchdog. Maduna’s office handed out the documents at the inquiry into the Strategic […]
The convicted Mafia money-man at the centre of an alleged Cape Town crime ring has again evaded the Italian police.
Sechaba ka’Nkosi Disillusionment with the African National Congress and hopes of pulling off surprises in next year’s general election made up the vision that guided the United Democratic Movement at its springboard first national congress at the weekend. It became evident that while the black leaders of the party would launch a battle to lure […]
Andrew Muchineripi World Cup The sparring sessions are over. The skirmishes have been completed. The time for war is at hand. If you have been holidaying on Mars, fret not. The real World Cup begins on Friday. With the greatest respect to all those noble qualifiers who have been eliminated, including our beloved Bafana Bafana, […]
Contrary to popular opinion, speculators did not spell doom for the rand, reports Donna Block The United States Secretary of the Treasury, Robert Rubin, is due to visit South Africa in about 10 days time, and when he gets here he is not likely to be very sympathetic to the bleatings of the South African […]
Tangeni Amupadhi Tension is simmering in Thabazimbi in the Northern Province over allegations that a policeman accused of failing to protect a state witness has remained on the force. It has also emerged that police authorities ignored a directive, issued a year ago by the province’s Department of Safety and Security, to act against Detective […]