FRIDAY 11.00AM FIRST quarter electricity consumption in SA was up a seasonally adjusted 1,2% compared to the last quarter of 1996, according to latest figures from the Central Statistical Service. The quarterly increase came in spite of a 1,4% seasonally adjusted month-on-month decline from February to March. The average index of electricity production increased 1% […]
Last weekend was a busy time for South African culture – our journalists bring you the dirt from all over the show Judith Watt on the Vukani awards ‘Fashion is not just an industry,” says British designer Katharine Hamnett. “It exists as a cultural phenomenon; it reflects the underlying thing – what Jung calls the […]
South African-born Richard Stanley was fired as director of The Island of Dr Moreau after four days on set. ANDREW WORSDALE asks him why Twenty-seven-year-old renegade film-maker Richard Stanley had his first film taken away from him and re-cut. While studying at the Cape Town Film School his 15-minute Super 8 film, Rites of Passage, […]
HAZEL FRIEDMAN scrutinises the evocative prints of Eunice Geustyn and Alma Eta Vorster In the age of art-as-illustrated-press- release, it is all too easy to dismiss the arduous processes of print-making as being out of touch with current times. Still relegated to the bottom rung of the art collector’s ladder, prints tend to regarded as […]
police Police watchdog finds itself toothless as Western Cape officers defy its recommendations over Robben Island rape.Gustav Thiel reports THE Western Cape’s police commissioner, Leon Wessels, has defied calls by the government’s Independent Complaints Directorate that he reprimand two officers involved in the botched Robben Island rape investigation. Wessels this week also retracted the “unreserved […]
FRIDAY, 12.00NOON: SPRINGBOK lock Johan Ackermann and two Gauteng Lions players, Bennie Nortje and Stephan Bronkhorst, were yesterday given two-year suspensions by a SA Rugby Football Union disciplinary inquiry for using anabolic steroids. Ackermann, one of the Blue Bulls’ highest-paid players, indicated he will lodge an appeal, citing “improper testing procedures”. The hearing was delayed […]
Amid all the horrors of Matabeleland one name stands out as being particularly synonymous with human depravity: Bhalagwe camp. It was originally a base for ex-Zipra troops incorporated into the Zimbabwe National Army. But in 1982 the troops there were accused of being dissidents. The camp was surrounded by paratroop and commando units and shut […]
Ferial Haffajee Trade unions are the training ground of a different type of MBA graduate. Like those with MBAs, unionists are all- rounders who are “well-versed in finance, work organisation and conflict resolution”, says Bobby Maree, programme co-ordinator of the Development Institute for Training, Support and Education for Labour (Ditsela). Years of negotiations have made […]
CINEMA: Charl Blignaut As I was leaving Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies, it occurred to me that the impact of the movie pretty much depends on how screwed up your mother was. Or, for that matter, exactly how much it screwed your mother up to give birth to this life that would become a shadow […]
Gillian Farquhar A MAGAZINE for men that sells better than GQ and Esquire … not likely? But true … Men’s Health hit South African news-stands last week and is “the most popular men’s magazine of the decade”, says Jeffrey Morgan, its United States and worldwide publisher who was in Johannesburg last week for the magazine’s […]