Marion Edmunds reports on the outstanding issues The Constitutional Assembly is to release the fourth working draft of the Constitution next week. It will chart almost three months of progress since the last draft was published in December. But in anticipation of this draft, here is a summary of where we stand now. Unresolved issues […]
It was a first: an advertisement flighted simultaneously on all four channels. And it cost millions. Hazel Friedman watched the advert which brought mysticism to the concrete industry Strange, inexplicable sightings have been known to take place on the SABC from time-to- time. But nothing could rival the image onslaught that hit viewers during prime-time […]
Marion Edmunds It was a casual weekend — Hernus Kriel was wearing baggy tracksuit pants, Sheila Camerer a light pink slack suit, John Mavuso designer moccasins and FW de Klerk a checked shirt. But behind the informality and bonhomie in Hermanus, the Nats were in deadly earnest. “Tell me,” said De Klerk, leaning in earnest […]
While the government considers more equitable ways of aiding the film industry, Justin Pearce reports that a single producer scooped more than half the subsidy money in recent years Films, including Oh Schucks, it’s Schuster and There’s a Zulu on my Stoep, earned more than R20-million in government subsidies for film production giant, Toron, over […]
STEVE GORDON, organiser of several music tours to South Africa, explains why the Cape Town jazz festival collapsed — and how to put together a successful event ANNOUNCED by Captour in 1994 as “the biggest- ever jazz festival in Africa”, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, which collapsed last week, had already tasted controversy a […]
Sipo Mzimela, the Minister of Correctional Services and IFP national deputy chairman, in The Mark Gevisser Profile IF KwaZulu-Natal premier Frank Mdlalose is the bluff country doctor of Zulu ethnicist politics, then the Reverend Sipo Mzimela is its fire- breathing priest. He looks like the archetypal avuncular Anglican cleric, right down to his ecumenical sideburns […]
In light of the recent successes in South African sport, sponsorship is reaching new heights, reports Simon Segal South African sport has rapidly become a mega- business. With the success of the national rugby, soccer and cricket teams and the advent of 24-hour international television sports channels, local sport has caught up with world trends. […]
Carlo Gibson’s art is interactive — so why, asks HAZEL FRIEDMAN, isn’t the viewer allowed to participate? ACCESSING Carlo Gibson’s realm means entering a land where the literal and the obtuse sometimes meet in a muddled embrace. His first solo show — at the Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, at the Market in Newtown — promises […]
Karen Harverson South Africa’s corporate standards are being polluted by corruption, and the toll on the country is far higher than the mere monetary value. For example, corruption in Nigeria was initially accepted as a way of “getting the job done” — and so the cost of corruption was less than its monetary value because […]
Gaye Davis MINISTER Zola Skweyiya’s announcement of a radical shake-up for the Public Service Commission (PSC) — often cited by government ministers and officials as the biggest obstacle to the country’s transformation — faces a rearguard action. The Forum of Commissions — a non-statutory body comprising the national PSC and eight provincial PSCs — intends […]