Johannesburg Child Welfare has permitted a gay couple to adopt a child — a first in South Africa, writes Gavin Duvenhage The first ever officially approved gay adoption took place in Johannesburg last month when a lesbian couple received a newborn baby from Johannesburg Child Welfare. Johannesburg Child Welfare, who managed the adoption, confirmed that […]
South Africa’s first national Women’s Day brought gender issues to everyone’s lips in a way that this country has never seen before. It provided a great talking point — but also an opportunity for hollow rhetoric and bland generalities. Parliament took the lead on Tuesday by calling a special sitting to mark the day. The […]
Jon Swift AT THE root of all the current upheaval and litigation=20 facing world rugby union is the insistence by the game’s=20 authorities that the game be an amateur sport. This=20 iconoclasm, this sticking to the ideals of a bygone era,=20 is rooted in the breakaway just on 100 years ago, when=20 some of the […]
Karen Harverson The trademark dispute between Chicken Licken owner=20 George Sombonos and US hamburger chain McDonald’s will=20 be heard in the Pretoria Supreme Court this month. The case consists of two applications; one of which will=20 be tried under South Africa’s old Trademark Act and the=20 other under the new Act passed in May 1995. […]
Politician Thandi Modise talks frankly about being abused by her husband, to Stefaans Brummer SHE’s deputy head of the ANC Women’s League, MP and former Umkhonto weSizwe commander, yet Thandi Modise cannot make phone calls from home. For that she needs the permission of her husband, and he won’t give it to The SABC’s controversial […]
Karen Harverson Foundry engineering and rolled steel producing group=20 Scaw Metals is investigating the possibility of=20 expanding into South America and may acquire a foundry=20 operation to supply the Chilean mining industry with=20 mining consumables such as mill liners and gauging=20 “It’s still in the early stages but we are looking to=20 diversify into other […]
Some of the freshest talent in local fashion has found a=20 new home at Cape Town’s Young Designers’ Emporium. MALU=20 VAN LEEUWEN reports=20 LAST week, a new shop flung open its doors in Cape Town.=20 Nothing wildly unusual about that, except that, for the=20 first time, this shop gathers under one roof 10 aspirant=20 South […]
Non-governmental organisations are more important now than before liberation, argues Paul van Zyl A FORTNIGHT ago, President Nelson Mandela signed into law the Bill which will establish the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A study of the process which led to the formation of the truth commission provides a fascinating insight into the functioning of the […]
Steuart Wright Public servants queue to place their bags on the conveyor-belt metal detector at Umtata’s Botha Sigcau government building. They wait patiently for the bags to emerge, unfazed by the fact there are no security personnel to check them anyway. It is part of the ritual of coming to work — in a building […]
THE report of the Arts and Culture Task Group (Actag) released this week raises, among many other questions, the issue of representation. The cultural organisations which exist in our society, almost without exception, still bear the imprint of the apartheid era. On one hand we have bodies like the Federasie vir Afrikaner Kultuur and the […]