Angella Johnson THE woman entrusted with heading a government agency to advise small businesses is wanted by Swaziland police for allegedly misappropriating R211 000 of foreign donated funds intended to build township houses, it was claimed this week. Nonhlahla June Mkhwanazi, who has only held the post of chief executive officer of Ntsika Enterprise Promotion […]

Shirley Kossick YOUNG WIVES’ TALES by Susan Sussman (Headline Review, R59,99) MOLLY, one of the young wives of the title, is passionately involved with storytelling and is struggling to finish a dissertation on the subject. But the prologue – a marvellously evocative passage on the premonition experienced by Molly’s aunt – gives warning that danger […]

1 All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, 1930). Archaic acting, yet still the mother of all battle films. Episodic, random; candid about mud, rats and lice … 2 La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937). The father of all anti-war films. Prison camp escape drama, acute about the behavioural artifices necessary to war. 3 […]

CINEMA: Derek Malcolm THE IDEA that the left’s fight against Franco in Spain was defeated, not by fascist powers but by Stalin’s betrayal of true socialism, is not one held by all those who took part in what was as much a civil war as a left-right struggle. But it is one espoused by George […]

Lesley Cowling THE Department of Education is testing new ways of implementing science and technology education at schools, an area that recent research has revealed is seriously inadequate. South African standard five and six pupils came bottom of the class in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study -published last week – which tested students […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy TELEVISION news has an average of six Audience Ratings (ARs) and just manages to slip into the All Media and Product Survey (AMPS) figures of the top 10 television programmes on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) channels. But six ARs, according to media directors from local advertising agencies, is “just not good […]

FINE ART: Suzy Bell A NIGHTMARISH sexual experience for young Durban artist Brandon McLeod (23) made him seek therapy in art instead of on the couch. He brazenly explores “the spread of erotics” by juxtaposing images of eroticism and emptiness, fear and fetishism, sexual desire and death. “My work is no poetry,” is the alarmingly […]

What do all the slogans mean to volunteers dealing with Aids and their families, asks Dolar Vasani THE theme of World Aids Day on December 1 – One World, One Hope – ties in with the spirit of volunteerism that is observed on December 5, International Volunteer Day. One focuses on a current epidemic, the […]

The refugees may be going, but the suffering continues. Chris McGreal reports from Mugunga IT might be that in the distant future someone will stumble upon Mugunga and wonder if they aren’t standing in the midst of some lost civilisation. Only a maze of walls laboriously cleaved from the harsh carpet of volcanic rock will […]

Protesters gathered in the Free State this week to call for the reinstatement of Terror Lekota as premier of the province. One of them spoke to Rehana Rossouw DESPITE the rain and the chilly weather on Wednesday, four busloads of elderly Free State residents stood outside the provincial government offices to protest the African National […]