Gustav Thiel THE people responsible for launching The Big Issue in Cape Town have more than just making a quick buck in mind. Instead, the editorial staff want to help the homeless and unemployed living in the Mother City and ”offer them an opportunity for change”. According to the magazine’s editor, Charmaine Bruins, there have […]

Julian Schnabel, New York painter, has turned to film. His subject? Fellow artist, the late Jean-Michel Basquiat. ROBERTA SMITH looks at his fascinating film – in which he twists history to suit his own ends THE art world spent the Eighties getting used to reading about itself in glossy magazines. In the Nineties it may […]

FINE ART: Julia Teale DENISE PENFOLD and Margaret Chetwin have more in common than the title of their joint exhibition Common Objects. Both are MBA graduates from UCT’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts and both now teach at the Cape Technikon’s School of Design. And although the exhibition is not presented as an explicitly collaborative […]

DANCE: Suzy Bell THERE’s a development dance theatre company so hot, hip and happening that it’s already performed for President Mandela and Sonia Gandhi. Siwela Sonke is an eclectic, experimental dance company that melts together African, Indian and European dance heritage, creating a new rhythm we’ve all been waiting for. The vibrant, young dancers move […]

If Joel Stransky had known Springbok coach Andre Markgraaff was going to quit, maybe he would have stayed in South Africa, but now he’s found happiness and form in England RUGBY:Mick Cleary YOU gauge a man’s true fortune not by examining his bank balance but by peering into his soul. Last year, Joel Stransky, the […]

SOUTH AFRICA’s first national science and technology festival looks set to become an annual event after attracting about 15 000 visitors to a week-long programme of science-related activities in Grahamstown. Scifest ’97, which ended on Wednesday, also drew enthusiastic support from a range of science-related organisations and businesses, and even individuals. A lone professor from […]

NEWSPAPERS are to be used increasingly in South African classrooms to assist children to read critically and form their own judgments. The Newspaper Press Union (NPU) plans to co-operate with national educational planners to help ”school” a new generation of ”democratically minded South Africans”. NPU members are working in correlation with the Print Media In […]

Jim Day AN apartheid-era plan to move thousands of farmworkers off government-owned farmland in the Northern Province into rural villages has resurfaced in the guise of land reform. Many of the 5 000 people involved oppose the plan, saying they have not been properly consulted and promises that they would have first priority over the […]

The five bidders for South Africa’s first private TV station have criticised many of the IBA’s proposed regulations for the new licence. Gillian Farquhar reports RAINBOW TELEVISION and Vula Television are the latest entrants in the race for South Africa’s first “free-to-air” private television licence, to be awarded in November by the Independent Broadcasting Authority […]

Popular British evolutionist Richard Dawkins is in South Africa to promote a love of science. He spoke to Lesley Cowling THERE are few things eminent scientist and Oxford don Richard Dawkins doesn’t know. One of them is that he’s an Aries. Perhaps it would be more correct to say he doesn’t want to know. “Astronomy […]