Gang warfare in KwaMashu township has grown out of old anti-apartheid alliances, writes Enoch Mthembu AT least eight people were killed in Durban’s KwaMashu township this week after a feud between rival African National Congress factions broke out into open warfare. Former Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) exiles and members of the township’s self-defence unit began fighting […]
Ann Eveleth JOHN MARINGA is 25 and he is trying to write matric for the third time. He lost three years of schooling during the 1980s because of his anti-apartheid activism and has since twice written, and failed, the exam. He pins his hopes on studying at the Tembisa Technical College on the East Rand, […]
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Dan Glaister in London AS a form of revenge, it is both expansive and expensive. Sandra Three, by RB Kitaj, occupies an entire wall of the Royal Academy’s normally sedate Summer Show and carries a price tag of 1-million. The piece is the third instalment in Kitaj’s aim to exact revenge on the critics he […]
FINE ART: Brenda Atkinson DURING World War II, a man called Hugh Mcfarlane was commissioned to take “scientific” photographs of South African soldiers stationed in Namibia. He photographed over 1 000 men, each one naked against a tiled white wall, standing on a small, numbered podium. The strangled subtexts of discipline and desire in the […]
An American institute is offering to raise us from the dead – at a price, writes Sue Nelson ACCORDING to legend, every 500 years the phoenix, a mythical Arabian bird, would fling itself on to a funeral pyre. But instead of dying, it would rise from the ashes with renewed vigour. It’s an appealing tale. […]
Angella Johnson BRITISH AIRWAYS (BA) took what it described as a major step in consolidating its position as a “global airline” when it became the first national carrier to dump its country’s flag from the corporate logo to broaden the company’s appeal. Instead of a single identity, BA’s planes will sport 50 different images created […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM A CAMBRIDGE University academic, in a wide-ranging report on industrial policy, has criticised the Reserve Bank’s restrictive monetary policy as “uninformed’ and serving the interests of the financial sector to the detrimient of industry. In a working paper prepared for the policy think-tank Trade and Industrial Policy Secretariat, Ha-Joon Chang said industrial policy-makers […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: APPEALS against their doping sentences by banned rugby players Johan Ackerman, of Northern Tranvaal, and Bennie Nortje and Stefan Bronkhorst of Gauteng, were rejected on Thursday by the South African Rugby Football Union. The players have been sentenced with a two-year banning after testing positive for illegal substances earlier this season. Sarfu CE […]
There’s more to Jean Paul Gaultier than funny bras and Eurotrash. He talks to SUSANNAH FRANKEL about styling The Fifth Element JEAN PAUL GAULTIER’s peroxide blond crop is resting on a sea of puffed up, chintz- covered pillows in his decidedly genteel hotel suite. Clad in the requisite matelot T-shirt, stove-pipe trousers and ugly shoes […]