Gwen Ansell THIS year’s Kora All-African Music Awards nominations again raise uncomfortable questions about how the industry in South Africa defines African popular music – and maybe how the world outside sees our scene. At last year’s major glitzfest, South Africa was represented by, among others, Lucky Dube, who was fted by the South African […]
AMERICAN shock-jock Howard Stern will visit South Africa next month to promote his autobiographical film, Private Parts. Stern has a four-and-a-half-hour, five-days-a- week radio show with 18-million listeners, built on his outrageous style of offensive white-trash humour. He has been married for 21 years and has four daughters, but about his radio show, he says, […]
SEXUAL VIOLENCE GUIDELINES NEW guidelines are being drawn up for South African state officials who handle cases of sexual violence against women and children. The Justice department announced the guidelines on Friday, and said they are to protect the fundamental rights of all women and childen to safety, security and protection. Officials who contravene the […]
FRIDAY, 3.00PM NATAL University has announced it is to cut 600 jobs, halve the number of faculties and slash the number of academic departments by three quarters, the senate said on Thursday. According to vice-chancellor Brenda Gourley the radical cost-cutting measures have been forced by a 5% cut in this year’s government subsidy, and the […]
Experts say new bail laws will paper over the cracks, writes Marion Edmunds THE government is promising stricter bail laws – despite little evidence that current laws are at fault. Legal experts argue that the decision will merely paper over failures in the criminal justice system and the bad decisions of inexperienced magistrates. They also […]
Andrew Worsdale JONATHAN PATON, son of the writer Alan Paton, is unhappy with aspects of a television series about his father. The Principal, the story of the author’s years as a warden at Diepkloof Reformatory, is currently airing on SABC. And Paton junior has also received retractions from the Mail & Guardian and the Sunday […]
MALU VAN LEEUWEN arrived at the INXS concert in Cape Town a sceptic. She left the stadium a fan WHEN Michael Hutchence eases into the VIP hospitality area for the media “meet and greet” he’s powdered from temple to toe: Abba-blue eyeshadow, baby-blue checked flares, royal-blue buckled dandy shoes. So, Michael, how much easy listening […]
grips with distance learning in SA Mail & Guardian Reporter IT takes a special sort of student to survive the rigours of distance learning. There’s no spoon-feeding here, no personal support: one survives or fails on one’s own. “For most of us, distance learning is an adjunct, a supplement, to what we get face to […]
Last Sunday SA’s advertising fraternity held its annual back-patting orgy. We report on the 1997 Loerie Awards Irwin Manoim NO one danced naked on the tables at the Loerie awards banquet at Sun City. The tables were so over-full with over- decorated food, over-decorated flowers, over-decorated decorations, that no space was available for the pitter […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM BUSINESS confidence took a knock in May following the slowdown in gross domestic product growth in the first quarter. The SA Chamber of Business business confidence index fell 0,2 percentage points to 113,8 last month, its first drop following four consecutive months of increases. Sacob economic policy director Ben van Rensburg said Sacob […]