CINEMA: Andrew Worsdale IN The First Wives Club Goldie Hawn as a ditzy, sexy screen star on the slippery slope of character parts pleads with her reluctant plastic surgeon for lips like Mick Jagger’s. She’s got to be more glamorous because, ”there are only three ages of women in Hollywood – babe, district attorney and […]

Marion Edmunds MORE heads than one will roll in the Eastern Cape, according to sources close to President Nelson Mandela. Premier Raymond Mhlaba has already been told that he is to be dismissed and once he steps down his cabinet and his two key civil servants – the director general of the Eastern Cape administration, […]

Marion Edmunds THE South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has appointed a well-paid, full-time lobbyist at Parliament to protect its interests during negotiations on the parastatal’s financial independence, among other things. Tango Lamani, who has had two years work experience as a media liaison for the Constitutional Assembly, took up the post of SABC Parliamentary Liaison […]

Adrian Poole LAST ORDERS by Graham Swift (Picador, R79,95) ‘IT ain’t like your regular sort of day.” Not quite the opening line you expect from a Graham Swift novel, to date. But this new one, his sixth and this year’s winner of the Booker Prize, ain’t like your regular novel, Swift’s or anyone else’s. Not […]

Black empowerment may still leave a major gold mine under white control, writes Max Gebhardt ANGLO AMERICAN is lifting its stake in Johannesburg Consolidated Investment’s (JCI) gold mine Western Areas – a move which could ensure it remains the mine’s largest shareholder after JCI’s planned sale to black business. The corporation is refusing to comment […]

Tu Nokwe has released her second album. GLYNIS O’HARA talks to her `I CAN’T take jazz musicians, they criticise so much. And I used to listen to a lot of jazz as well as mbaqanga … but all you do is get insecure around jazz musicians. They think they own music, you know!” The person […]

Suzy Bell IT’S based on the premise that the spirit of ubuntu meets advertising on a hot and heady Apple Macintosh keyboard with a manic mouse tripping on orange juice spiked with the wicked realism of raw design. Seldom before has there been such a brilliant collaboration of skilled and raw talent as seen in […]

Just a couple of months after the last competitors’ bus got lost in Atlanta, cities have begun the race to host the 2004 Games. John Duncan reports THEY are not at all what you would expect. There are 15 of them, slightly stern-looking, definitely bleary-eyed, weighed down by details of infrastructure and facilities and statistics, […]

The process of electing a new vice-chancellor has been steeped in irony, but finally students and staff have a spring in their step, writes Philippa Garson IN the space of a few months the University of the Witwatersrand has, against all expectation, picked up its scattered pieces and moulded a fragile new unity for itself. […]

Julia Grey MEASURING the effects of the space environment on satellites may seem like highly specialised technology, beyond most of us. But it’s child’s play to two groups of school children who have been actively involved in designing experiments that will travel on the Sunsat microsatellite in 1997. Niki Steenkamp, an engineer at the Engineering […]