Documents leaked to the M&G reveal that BopBC is bordering on insolvency. Jacquie Golding-Duffy reports on its status THE Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation (BopBC), which has for 18 months refused to integrate into the SABC, is begging the North West provincial legislature for funds, warning that it is bordering on insolvency. Documents leaked to the Mail […]

Chris Mihill OVERWEIGHT women have less chance of surviving breast cancer than thinner colleagues, researchers announced in the United Kingdom this week. Scientists from the Cancer Research Campaign (CRC) say a woman past menopause in the early stages of breast cancer has a better chance of survival if she weighs less than 60kg. The study […]

Last week we reported on links between senior women in the African National Congress and a privately run deportation centre contracted to the Home Affairs Ministry. On Tuesday the ANC reacted with a statement defending the “rights” of its members to “seek a stake in the mainstream of the economy of our country”. On Wednesday […]

action Tangeni Amupadhi JULIA BOPAPE was the mother of an alleged=20 criminal. Last week a crowd of 4 000 in=20 Mamelodi, Pretoria, stoned her to death for=20 the deeds of her son, Handsome Bopape. She was killed at a meeting during which=20 the community accused her of encouraging=20 her son to commit crimes, and of […]

edge Suzy Bell THERE’S a new generation of journalists=20 emerging and they’re not simply bristling=20 with the cockiness of youth, but have a=20 reassuring sense of social realism, and=20 equally a sense of business sass charging=20 through their veins. A group of trainee student journalists=20 sensed an editorial niche in the market=20 place to produce […]

Marion Edmunds KMMT BREY, a black Cape Town-based=20 accountancy firm, has won a R3,4-million=20 contract to market eight of South Africa’s=20 nine provinces abroad in a drive for direct=20 foreign investment. According to Rafiq Bagus, chief executive=20 officer of Investment South Africa, which=20 awarded the contract, KMMT Brey is working=20 with a United States-based consultancy, […]

Dow Jones’s share price shows it does not=20 practise the economics preached by its own=20 Wall Street Journal, reports Mark Tran in=20 New York THE Wall Street Journal has waged a=20 relentless campaign for free-market=20 capitalism on its comment pages throughout=20 the years, priding itself for having=20 provided the redoubt for the shock troops=20 of […]

Gustav Thiel=20 A FIGHT for control over Western Province=20 cricket has degenerated into accusations of=20 drunkenness and racism, with a senior=20 cricket official and judicial officer=20 telling sports commentator Martin Locke to=20 ”fuck off back to Rhodesia”. Percy Sonn, vice-president of the Western=20 Province Cricket Association, was censured=20 two weeks ago by his executive for […]

JULIE BARKER speaks to performer Godfrey Johnson about his work GODFREY JOHNSON, composer, writer, and cabaret artist, is both brilliant and e ccentric. During his varied career he has accompanied Irit Noble in her show B arstool Named Desire, as well as Bambi Kellerman, the neo-Nazi cabaret artist created by Pieter-Dirk Uys. Viewed by some […]

FINE ART: Dennis Mair THE crammed space of the Hnel Gallery somewhat resembles the inside of Lorena Bobbitt’s handbag at present, as images of penises teem the walls amid a diverse selection of coffins, cabinets and intricates. Steven Cohen’s Camp Concentration opened on Sunday February 2, to a performance piece by the artist dressed in […]