Aerial advertising has put a new thrill into the industry and is cost effective, reports Gillian Farquhar ALTERNATIVE advertising has been around in South Africa in varying states of ebb and flow since the Eighties; but this small and avant-garde form of marketing is slowly becoming more of an attraction, spawning spectacular vehicles to get […]

It took a two-year investigation to uncover members of the `Muslim mafia’, reports Angella Johnson THEY called themselves the “Muslim mafia” and bragged openly that they were untouchable because of the number of police officers on their payroll. Then an honest cop found a way to break one of the biggest criminal syndicates operating in […]

Joshua Amupadhi South Africans may have stumbled across a treatment for the Ebola virus this week. American scientists may shortly begin new experiments after the Gabonese doctor who brought the virus to this country responded well to steroids given to him by doctors who did not know he had the virus. Johannesburg Hospital’s Professor Guy […]

A survey has found that diplomats at 51 out of 71 missions are overpaid – so they’re taking heavy salary cuts, writes Mungo Soggot THE Department of Foreign Affairs has slashed the salaries of South African diplomats – some by as much as 50% – after exploring what it really costs them to live abroad. […]

Desmond Morris, at 68, is still pursuing his provocative studies of the naked ape. He spoke to Andrew Billen in Oxford DR DESMOND MORRIS has made a career out of watching people. He has the eye of a zoologist trained in the tradition of Julian Huxley and Darwin, but he also possesses highly developed showbiz […]

A few years in New York changed Tananas’s drummer Ian Herman. GWEN ANSELL finds out how much THE club is crowded. So crowded, in fact, that the punters can’t get to the toilets and the musicians can’t get to the stage. The bar staff are sprouting extra arms, and the waiters have started a human […]

Gwen Ansell TANANAS WIDE ENSEMBLE: Unamunacua (Gallo/GMP) FOR this, their fifth album, Tananas’s core of guitarist Steve Newman and drummer Ian Herman expands to include more than a dozen jazz and folk colleagues. The difference is dramatic. The spacey, wistful guitar tunes are still there (with reprises of a few old favourites) but the limited […]

Marion Edmunds The Steyn Commission on remuneration of representatives has recommended an 8% real increase on the total package for MPs and members of the Senate, bringing their total annual package to R239 642 from R221 861. Members of the provincial legislatures will have their packages increased by 2% and President Nelson Mandela will have […]

The French Barbarian team is packed with talent, but the Springbok `dirt-trackers’ team has been playing well enough to show that they can meet the challenge RUGBY:Andy Capostagno T HE trouble with touring is that just when you’ve gotten to like a place, you have to move on. Those of us lucky enough to spend […]

Mark Milner in Sao Paulo PEDRO MALAN does not look like a gambler. Pipe-smoking and bespectacled, he projects the image of the career civil servant he has been for much of his working life. Malan, however, is now Brazil’s minister of finance; a key player in President Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s attempt to wean the country […]