Glynis O’Hara on the Sama Awards THE FNB/Sama (South African Music Awards) may have opened well with a gracefully orchestrated medley representing different South African music forms, but by the time it was nearly over and Dr Victor led a line-up in a sentimental anthem about not doing crime, a lot of that promise had […]
DJ Taylor BABEL TOWER by AS Byatt (Vintage, R57,95) AS BYATT’S novel The Virgin in the Garden (1978), a chronicle of the self-absorbed Potter family and its two contending sisters, Stephanie and Frederica, showed every sign of turning into a kind of symbolist masque. Still Life (1985), its successor, was less experimental but still managed […]
University teachers face more challenges in the lecture halls now, but they are better for them, writes Eddie Webster I often meet students I have taught over the years who ask me nervously: “how are things at wits?” I am always cautiously upbeat. I realise, of course, that for some of us it was more […]
A British TV documentary is about to lift the lid on the sordid ‘canned’ lion hunting industry in South Africa. Gareth Patterson, who was involved in the investigations, reports THE bullet slammed into the lioness and she spun in the air, falling against the electric fence behind which she was confined. Standing on the other […]
MOTORRACING:Alan Henry FERRARI’S Michael Schumacher was not sure what had happened to his younger brother, Ralf. All he knew was that the 21-year-old Jordan driver was running fourth in the opening stages of Sunday’s San Marino Grand Prix, on the tail of the eventual winner, Heinz-Harald Frentzen. “If Ralf had finished,” Schumacher said, “there might […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM: The health of Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko proved to be an immediate impediment to today’s peace talks when Mobutu was too weak to climb the gangplank of the SA Navy ship Outeniqua in Ponte Noire, Congo this afternoon. A debate followed as to how best to get the ailing president aboard, with […]
FRIDAY, 4.30PM: THE Lesotho National Assembly today began debating the return of “conquered territory” (effectively the whole Free State) from South Africa. Foreign Minister Kelibone Maope told the assembly his government intends to hire a specialist to advise Lesotho on the issue of borders between Lesotho and SA. Maope added the government intends asking MPs […]
For South African teams to win in the Super 12, 15 players need to give a full 80 minutes of effort RUGBY: Steve Morris SOMEONE, somewhere must have the answer to the conundrum of South African sides failing to go the distance in individual Super 12 games and mounting a concerted campaign in the toughest […]
A battle over press freedom looms between some Western organisations and developing countries, writes Benjamin Pogrund THE Orwellian-sounding New World Information and Communication Order (Nwico) has surfaced again, nearly 10 years after the West thought it was dead and buried. Information ministers from nearly 30 ”non- aligned” countries, including Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Malaysia and Iraq, have […]
In the fifth part of our series on economic policy, Asghar Adelzadeh and Mathane Lethale of theNational Institute for Economic Policy consider whether government policies have positioned theeconomy towards job creation, poverty reduction and sustainable growth The Growth, Employment and Redistribution strategy’s (Gear) success is not going to be based on whether the government meets […]