As different interest groups are called to account by the truth commission, Claudia Braude challenges the Jewish community to confront its role in apartheid THIS piece was born over a year ago as I watched the televised documentary of President Nelson Mandela’s meeting with Dr Percy Yutar. It was part of Mandela’s post- apartheid national […]
Kiss your browser goodbye, Webcasting will facilitate easier access to the Net and appeal to advertisers, writes Jacquie Golding-Duffy THOSE fumbling with the Internet need no longer worry as a medium called Webcasting/Push technology will make a dramatic entry into the world of computers by pushing information on to a desktop without the need to […]
True revival of the Johannesburg CBD will take more than new institutional investment. A holistic approach to managing the city is vital for its survival, writes Ferial Haffajee THE tales about Johannesburg grow more fantastic every day. Did you hear the one about the cheeky gang in Smal Street Mall? They’re so brazen, all they […]
Phil Gunson in Panama IF Balbina Dennis (right) had a computer she could visit a web site belonging to an organisation called Peoplink and see her picture on the screen. She lives, on a tiny island off the Panamanian coast called Kuna Yala, from where the inhabitants staged a decisive rebellion against the government 72 […]
A remote-control robot that will pack them in at theme parks could also prove whether life on the moon is viable. Robin McKie reports IN a few weeks, a strange driverless vehicle will be dumped in the Atacama desert in northern Chile and sent trundling over its dunes in a two-month, 200km odyssey. The test […]
Allister Harry in Hollywood QUEEN LATIFAH is something of a repeat offender. The rapper-turned-actor repeatedly steals scenes from her co-stars Jada Pinkett and Vivica Fox in the new heist movie Set it Off, about four female bank robbers with attitude. Latifah is just one in a long line of rappers now making waves in Hollywood. […]
Chris Dunton THE OPEN SORE OF A CONTINENT: A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF THE NIGERIAN CRISIS by Wole Soyinka (Oxford University Press, R161) IT has been a steady, cynical process over the last few years, Soyinka’s harassment by the Nigerian authorities, the confiscation of his passport and the attempt to seize the United Nations documents he […]
Lyndall Campher THE youth are notoriously fickle when viewing television and the past two weeks of data demonstrate some interesting insights. Firstly, the coloured, Indian and white (CWI) youth and the black youth view different programmes, and secondly the way they view tends to be different. The top ten programmes are: CWI Youth % Fresh […]
Gillian Farquhar TELEVISION journalist Max du Preez has lashed out at the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) and The Flame Lily Foundation, an organisation which represents the interests of former Rhodesian citizens. Du Preez’s criticism stems from a complaint lodged by The Flame Lily Foundation about statements he made in the programme Truth […]
Angella Johnson BABIES who survive abortion attempts should be left to die even as they gasp for breath, according to new guidelines for the termination of pregnancy laid out by the Department of Health, and sent to all major hospitals last week. Medical practitioners across the country have been told that in cases where gestation […]