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 […]

Victoria Brittain KOIGI WA WAMWERE, Kenya’s best-known opposition politician, predicts he will die in a stabbing or car crash when he returns to the country to face yet another trial, for an alleged theft of arms from a police station in November 1993. He has served a year of a four-year jail sentence, was temporarily […]

Greg Bowes BRENDA FASSIE: Now Is The Time (CCP) THE controversial and incontrovertible Ms Brenda Fassie returns clad as the= ar chetypal “girlie” raver. But don’t let that put you off because this album,= wh ile ironically not as dance-oriented as her last (the Arthur-produced Umunt= u =20 Uyathintsha), is still an accomplished outing. While […]

TENNIS:Jon Swift IT is well, with the weekend’s Davis Cup World Group tie at Durban’s Westr= idg e Park in view, to keep an eye on the quintessential cornerstone of the Rus= sia n psyche – hardship is not a new phenomenon, it is to be both expected and = end ured. The Russians go […]