KAROO ARTSFESTIVAL: Gustav Thiel AN overweight twentysomething turned around and asked whether I would mind if he “killed the fucking kaffir with the beer can”. This was moments before cans were thrown at Miriam Makeba during the now infamous concert at the Klein Karoo Arts Festival. Ton Vosloo, managing director of Nasionale Pers, the main […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy KAGISO Educational Television (KET) is a new production company that promises to make an impact on educational viewing this year through innovative ventures. Headed by dynamic duo Leora Rajak and Coco Cachalia, the production company has clinched a deal to produce a 13-part television series called Educator Express for the SABC and the […]

Jim Day ADMINISTRATIVE problems and computer glitches have delayed the results of Census ’96 by six months, and pushed costs beyond its R365-million budget. Preliminary results from the population survey were first expected in January – then February, then March. Now, officials say it is too early even to tell when results may be ready, […]

DROR EYAL found himself between racists and radicals at this year’s controversial Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees `KAFFIRS wil alles oorneem; kyk hoe lank speel hulle!” [Blacks want to take over everything; look how long they play!] screams a man to my right. Short brown hair, clean shaven, T-shirt, shorts, Metlife Kaktus op die Vlaktes stick-on […]

The most senior members of the ANC’s former liberation army, Umkhonto weSizwe, are mobilising against racism in the SANDF, reports Rehana Rossouw DEPUTY Defence Minister Ronnie Kasrils has acknowledged there is racism in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and has extended his sympathies to lower- ranking soldiers who are victims of discrimination. The […]

Phillip van Niekerk visited the refugee camps of Khartoum, capital of Sudan, and found ethnic rifts to rival the old South Africa THERE is a jarring familiarity to the way the Sudanese refer to “them” – the tall, dark strangers now found in abundance in their northern cities. Any discussion with an Arab about independence […]

Falilat Ogunkoya’s bronze medal at the Olympics inspired her Nigerian teammates to their best performance ever, and now she’s aiming even higher ATHLETICS:Julian Drew WHEN Falilat Ogunkoya, in South Africa at the moment for the Engen Grand Prix series, returned home last year to Lagos with the most successful Nigerian team in Olympic history she […]

The trade department is set to launch its Competitiveness Fund, which draws on specialists to help small businesses grow, reports Madeleine Wackernagel THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is to seek tender applications for an operator to run its Competitiveness Fund by the end of this month. The fund, established to help small businesses […]

stakes Mail & Guardian Reporter THE British mercenary company which subcontracted South Africa’s Executive Outcomes to crush a rebellion on Papua New Guinea’s island province Bougainville asked for a stake in the large Panguna copper mine after its recapture, a judicial inquiry was told this week. Counsel assisting the commission, which is probing the ill-fated […]