Neil Bierbaum SCOPE is to become a general interest men’s magazine minus the girlie photographs — entering a domain so far occupied exclusively by the small but growing men’s lifestyle magazine Directions (formerly bigblue). A major repositioning of Scope is expected following a decision by the board of Republican Press to stop trying to compete […]

THE ANC: Will madam ever vote for Eve?=20 Justin Pearce=20 Eve Jammy usually does her canvassing by phone. But on =20 a rare occasion when she does canvas house to house, =20 it’s easy to see why she prefers the phone. =20 Jammy is a local election candidate for Ward 11 in =20 Johannesburg’s posh […]

Musical posts=20 THE University of Cape Town’s Professor David Woods has =20 been appointed vice chancellor of Rhodes University, =20 ending a drawn-out saga in the search for a replacement =20 for Dr Derek Henderson, who retires next year. Woods =20 was also one of two candidates presented to the UCT =20 Senate in a […]

Leon Perlman The days of sitting bored and probably scared during a mini-bus journey could soon be over. A Gauteng-based company, Maxtel, has developed the world’s first dedicated taxi phone which passengers can use to distract themselves. These South African-designed and manufactured devices, called “Taxi Talk”, will be available through global systems mobile (GSM) Service […]

NONE of the violence and gang warfare I saw in my youth =20 in the Cape Flats prepared me for the carnage which =20 unfolded before my eyes in Thornton Road, Athlone, Cape =20 Town on a sunny Tuesday afternoon this week.=20 As I drove down Belgravia Road, Athlone, my eyes were =20 burning and […]

Theatre: David Le Page Watching the first minutes of The Choice (Civic Theatre) is like being steeped in a wash of pop- psychology epigrams. If Ray and Sal were actually people, they would have to memorise reams of material from women’s magazines and Readers’ Digest “10 Steps to a better Marriage/Relationship”-type articles to be able […]

Very brief.=20 — Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment , when asked — breaking =20 the world longevity record this week at 120 years and =20 238 days — how she sees the future=20 We were victims of technology.=20 — A BBC spokesperson on how a secret fax about =20 privatising the BBC was sent by accident to […]

IT wasn’t just the rain that George Smiley missed in =20 Johannesburg. It was also the knowledge that the spying =20 trade would never be the same again. =20 With his hands wrapped around a balloon glass of 10-=20 year-old KWV, and his body enveloped in the soft =20 cushions of a large leather armchair, […]

The Japanese could give us some pointers on how to =20 attract doctors to rural hospitals, writes David =20 MUCH attention has been given to alleviating the =20 chronic shortage of doctors for rural service both here =20 and elsewhere. The Department of National Health’s =20 drive towards the development of a health care system […]

Cinema: Justin Pearce It is irksome to use words like “charming” when describing a film — but in the case of Eat Drink Man Woman no other adjective quite suffices to sum up a movie which is at once so seductive and so hollow. As the yin-yang oppositions of its title suggest, this film by […]