Johannesburg’s cultural politicians experienced a week of turmoil, reports HAZEL FRIEDMAN CHRISTOPHER TILL has lost his battle to hang on to the title of Johannesburg’s director of culture, despite massive support from the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU). The predominantly black union has rallied around Till ever since the Greater Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan Council […]

PHOTOGRAPHY: Marilyn Keegan – THE invitation to Canned Africa at Cape Town’s Association for Visual Arts describes it as a photographic exhibition. This, however, is a trifle misleading. In these 11 giant works, Geoffrey Grundlingh has pushed the frontiers of photography into another dimension. He has been the head of the photographic department at the […]

sixes CRICKET: Jon Swift ONE of the inevitable things about sport is that as the seasons change, so do the faces of the men out there in the middle. And so it is with the composition of the two cricket sides announced by the South African selectors this week. Adrian Kuiper, once such a vital […]

A COMMISSION set up to determine what salaries and benefits public representatives should receive has employed consultants to do just that — at a cost of more than R1-million. Sakkie Olivier, secretary of the Commission on Remuneration of Representatives, said KPMG Global Edge’s tender of R992 000 to investigate and make recommendations on salaries and […]

Good journalism is grounded in a dislike of special privilege, a contempt for anyone who suggests that they stand above the law, a deep-rooted scepticism of special pleading of any kind. This being the case, journalists can hardly claim professional privileges which other citizens do not enjoy; the rights and responsibilities of the media and […]

Written some 90 years ago, a group of ‘not quite right’ poems by the young TS Eliot has been rediscovered. ERIC GRIFFITHS examines the verses IN 1927, TS Eliot politely turned down a batch of manuscript poems which the young WH Auden had sent to Faber & Faber, where the senior poet was an editor: […]

Larry Elliott reports on the cynical attempt to blame economic failings on the poor and unemployed ONE of the things we have had to learn over the past 17 years is that nothing is ever the British government’s fault. The Arabs and the unions were to blame for the first Thatcher recession. The Germans and […]

Riquadeau Jacobs Kwazulu-Natal learned this week that in the early 1990s it had its own version of the infamous Vlakplaas torture camp at Camperdown in the Midlands. Suspended policeman Colonel Andy Taylor has been fingered as the man who headed the camp — effectively a subsidiary of Vlakplaas — in an investigation by a magistrate […]