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/ 25 October 1996
Rehana Rossouw MEMBERS of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in the Cape are reeling after white members of their church voted this week to retain its racially segregated structures. Following a two-year unity process, the church put to the vote last Sunday a resolution to abolish apartheid in its Cape structures – called conferences – […]
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/ 25 October 1996
The Beatles are back and by far the biggest buyers are teenagers, writes Lisa Buckingham in London THE Beatles are heading for the biggest record earnings in their history thanks to huge sales of the albums Anthology 1 and 2. Nearly 30 years after their peak and having seen off fashions like punk, rap, soul, […]
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/ 25 October 1996
Stefaans Brmmer DEPUTY Defence Minister Ronnie Kasrils this week joined in condemning the South African Defence Force’s (SADF) submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as “arrogant and disappointing” – but said there was very little the ministry can do to force military generals to reveal more. However, commission deputy chair Alex Boraine said if […]
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/ 25 October 1996
Andrew Worsdale ACCLAIMED photographer Larry Clark’s controversial first film Kids, about New York teenagers, drug-abuse, promiscuity and HIV, was passed uncut last week in a ruling by the Appeal Board. It will be released on to the South African circuit with a 16 age restriction and a warning that it contains sex and strong language. […]
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/ 25 October 1996
Andy Duffy NEARLY 17 000 state school teachers have applied for voluntary retrenchment, most of them senior experienced staff disenchanted with government’s education shake-up. More than 13 000 of the voluntary severance applications come from teachers in Gauteng (severance requests from 9% of its teachers), the Western Cape (requests from 17% of its teachers) and […]
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/ 25 October 1996
The new head of SABC’s Current Affairs has already made a start at revamping the division, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy SARAH CROWE (37) has been the head of the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) Current Affairs division for just more than a month now, but she has already begun to make her mark. If she’s not […]
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/ 25 October 1996
An alarmed publishing industry is up in arms over the threat of state involvement, reports Gaye Davis A SHOWDOWN is looming between the book publishing industry and the Department of National Education over proposals for greater state involvement in producing learning materials for schools. Bodies representing publishers, printers, paper manufacturers and booksellers met last week […]
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/ 25 October 1996
THIS is a story about that grey area between fiction and fact. It is about the tense sexuality in the most prominent of British boys’ schools that occasionally leads teachers to abuse the trust vested in them; and it is about the impressive ability of such schools to suppress for years any wider knowledge of […]
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/ 25 October 1996
The latest economic indicators signal a worse than expected slowdown, writes Max Gebhardt A HIGHER than expected jump in the inflation rate for September and falling consumer spending have forced economists to downgrade growth forecasts severely for 1997. The consumer price index (CPI) climbed by a full percentage point to 8,4% in August and growth […]
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/ 25 October 1996
smugglers Dan Atkinson in London LONDON is at the centre of an $80-million-a- year gold-smuggling racket shipping stolen and otherwise-illegal bullion from Mozambique into Europe. Some of the metal is then refined in the United Kingdom, often in primitive garage refineries. It goes to the jewellery trade. “A lump of gold is a lump of […]