The women of Arabia are emerging from behind Islamic restrictions to take their place in the corporate world. Kathy Evans reports from Doha IT was not an auspicious start to the first ever conference on the rights of Arabian women in the workplace. “No cameras, no recording equipment,” said a veiled policewoman, guarding the conference […]
The citizens of Kinshasa, the sprawling capital of Zaire, await the outcome of the Mobutu-Kabila peace talks with mounting fear. Chris McGreal reports LEOPOLD MUANDO’s first venture into futuristic art sits among his realist paintings of Zairean soldiers tearing Kinshasa apart and the ever-present trauma of Aids. Muando’s imagination has conjured up a vision of […]
censored Andrew Worsdale THE Publications Control Board has banned a movie already flighted several times in South Africa and, for the first time ever, a poster for a film. Caligula, produced in 1980 by Bob Guccione of Penthouse magazine and directed by Tinto Brass, tells the story of the decadent Roman whose rule was characterised […]
Ann Eveleth KWAZULU-NATAL has been forced to re-employ 230 senior teach- ers, including 60 principals, who had been given hefty retrenchment packages under the state teacher redeployment programme. The province said this week the teachers have been re-employed at their previous salaries, many until the end of the year, because there were no immediate replacements. […]
THREE years after the changing of the guard in Pretoria, the ease of South Africa’s transition relative to revolutionary upheavals elsewhere in the world is testimony to the remarkable political skills of President Nelson Mandela. It also shows the fundamental solidity and decency of ordinary South Africans of every hue. Yet, for all the talk […]
FRIDAY, 4.00PM: HEALTH Minister Dr Nkosazana Zuma may be taken to court over the Health Department’s proposal that medical students and interns have their training extended by two years of vocational training. Students and interns appointed attorneys to study the legal implications of Zuma’s scheme, which they say was announced unilaterally, with no chance of […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: THE Gauteng Lions rugby team are to discuss injured Springbok flyhalf Hennie le Roux’s position in the team at a meeting on Monday night at Ellis Park. Le Roux recently denied rumours of his transfer and reports that he had a fall-out with GLRU president Dr Louis Luyt in New Zealand. Le Roux […]
Mungo Soggot INDEPENDENT Broadcasting Authority (IBA) councillor Lyndall Shope-Mafole insisted this week that she and her colleagues have done nothing wrong and have nothing for which to apologise. She was responding to the auditor general’s final report on the IBA, presented to Parliament on Wednesday, which criticised the organisation’s dire financial controls and misuse of […]
A FAR cry from the upper-class conditions and surroundings at Tara is the Zola Clinic in Soweto. Established ten years ago, the Zola clinic looks from the outside like a small shopping centre. A three-metre high brick-wall with razor wire running around the top surrounds the building. A few faded graffiti, mainly old political slogans, […]
FRIDAY, 2.30PM The truth commission Friday made an impassioned final plea to former apartheid defence minister General Magnus Malan to apply for amnesty before Saturday’s deadline. TRC deputy chairman Dr Alex Boraine said the commissione noted Malan’s decision not to seek amnesty with “deep concern”. “It is my opinion that he would be well advised […]