Enoch Mthembu and Ann Eveleth INKATHA Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu=20 Buthelezi called his closest party allies=20 to a secret meeting in Pretoria on January=20 23 to determine the fate of KwaZulu-Natal=20 Premier Frank Mdlalose. A senior IFP member who was briefed about=20 the meeting said it was the last in a=20 series of events that […]

GLYNISO’HARA talks to Be Like Water’s front=20 man Leonel Bastos about gender, sex,=20 lyrics, life, love – and that massive new=20 record deal PRODUCER/songwriter/guitarist/ singer=20 Leonel Bastos arrives at the interview=20 looking like a tall Buddhist pixie, his=20 head shaved, sporting round silver=20 earrings, pyjama-like pants and a sky-blue=20 T-shirt littered with blue flowers. Bass […]

Angella Johnson TWO lithesome ladies in their Limousine=20 took part in a market joyride around some=20 of Soweto and Eldorado Park’s shebeens and=20 taverns to promote Gilbey’s VO brandy and=20 Radio Metro.=20 Most of the station’s top DJs took part in=20 the unusual promotion – to the delight of a=20 few locals who turned out […]

Mungo Soggot PLANNING some cosmetic surgery, but you=20 don’t want anyone to know about it? Why not=20 throw in a trip to South Africa, visit the=20 Kruger Park and see the fairest Cape – all=20 for half what you would pay in Europe? This is the pitch Carrie Globisch, a=20 beautician, plans to make when […]

An Aids breakthrough on the other side of=20 the world puts South Africa’s hopesin=20 perspective, writes Lesley Cowling=20 AS reports of a possible cure for Aids=20 broke in South Africa last week, at the=20 other end of the world about 2 300 HIV=20 research-ers were hearing news about=20 another potent new drug that could=20 eradicate […]

Derek Hanekom said this week he was=20 piloting legislation to limit evictions of=20 rural families. But this may be too late=20 for one family, reports Rehana Rossouw=20 KATRINA WILLIAMS has lived on the farm “La=20 Verger” near Stellenbosch for 50 years,=20 working there as a domestic worker for its=20 owners for 45 years. Her loyalty […]

THE CUTTING EDGE PROFILE Marion Edmunds WHAT keeps a phenomenally intelligent,=20 internationally acclaimed, charming, A- rated scientist working and living in Cape=20 Town? “That”, says 43-year-old Professor Daya=20 Reddy, gesturing upwards to the great hulk=20 of Table Mountain whose crags loom=20 possessively over the University of Cape=20 Town’s upper campus. Reddy, who has preferred to […]

Gustav Thiel RESEARCHERS at the University of Cape Town=20 (UCT) have what they think may be at least=20 a partial solution to the problem of=20 poaching off the Cape coast: they want to=20 place some of the responsibility for=20 maintaining abalone, or perlemoen,=20 populations in the hands of the poachers=20 themselves. This unusual experiment in […]

Hazel Friedman DDAY has long passed for the release of=20 the final list of names for South Africa’s=20 National Arts Council (NAC), the=20 government-funded, independent arts council=20 established to serve as a statutory body=20 for the allocation of funds to deserving=20 cultural projects.=20 And while the art world waits with bated=20 breath for the names, […]