Madeleine Wackernagel SUBSTANTIAL falls in formal sector employment levels are threatening to undermine the government’s Growth, Employment and Redistribution (Gear) strategy, which aims to create 400 000 jobs a year by the turn of the century, assuming economic growth of 6%. Two disturbing trends are coming to light – total employment, according to Central Statistical […]

Lesley Cowling THE Institute of Wine Biotechnology grew out of a new initiative called the Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme (Thrip), which is administered by the Foundation for Research Development (FRD). The programme brings together industry, academic research and government in projects designed to serve national interests. The way it works is this: […]

Hazel Friedman AFTER five years of negotiating and 11 months after a deal was struck, actors are still stranded by the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) failure to sign a contract to protect their rights. And SABC officials don’t even know where the long-awaited Television Performers Contract is. Head of television Gill Chisholm told the […]

The three candidates for the vice- chancellorship made their presentations to capacity crowds. Andy Duffy reports WITS University stretched the principle of transparency to almost painful lengths this week. Searching for a successor to vice-chancellor Robert Charlton, the university put three candidates through public presentations and a grilling by students and a 28-strong selection committee. […]

As an innocent victim of the Francois Pienaar selection row, Natal and Springbok captain Gary Teichmann will have the full support of his players on Saturday, but Pienaar is definitely ahead in the sentiment stakes RUGBY:Jon Swift ONE OF the most interesting aspects of the whole Francois Pienaar episode is that it has done what […]

Dodgy money accounts for much of the world’s GDP, but this may not be all bad, writes Dan Atkinson TAKE it from the top: counterfeit goods account for 9% of world gross domestic product (GDP), the black economy ranges in size from 5 to 25% of GDP, bribery and fraud accounts for – oh, another […]

Martin Orkin SHAKESPEARE AND SOUTH AFRICA by David Johnson (Clarendon, R450) SHAKESPEARE and South Africa is a provocative and important attempt not only to relate the political mission of English studies in the past 200 years to its historical context, but to debate its future. David Johnson traces the origins in the 19th century of […]

FINE ART: Adam Haupt LARRY SCULLY’S array of five gleaming projectors seems incongruous in the Teutonic white monstrosity that is the Stellenbosch Town Hall. As one of the few black people there I feel equally out of place, although I do notice Wally Serote present, and feel reassured by that old familiar dictum: ”Do not […]

FINE ART: Julia Teale JOHAN LOUW’S first solo show, An Exhibition of Oil Paintings, shows the work of a young artist determined to get to grips with painting. The work, consisting of near- monochromatic paintings-with-figures, a few landscapes and a couple of drawn cont (French chalk) heads, is compelling: one is drawn in, captivated. The […]