The government spent R140 000 on a glossy new magazine — and closed it after the first edition, writes Bronwen Jones THE government-run South African Communication Service (Sacs) is facing a dramatic reshuffle of resources as its chic, sleek, new magazine Women Today bit the dust upon With severe understaffing and a battle underway between […]
Education Ministry bureaucrats are trying to prevent ideological changes to schools’ history syllabuses, reports Philippa Garson THE education department has launched an inquiry into the role played by one of its “old guard” officials in allegedly sabotaging the process of amending the history syllabus. Participants in the National Education and Training Forum’s curriculum sub-commitee on […]
Some commentators see the current crisis in the National Party as a sign that it is on its last legs, reports Gaye Davis SCENTING blood, the pundits have been quick as piranhas in pouncing on the National Party. As it thrashes about in new, uncharted political waters, analysts have set to dissecting it, stripping it […]
A Science magazine poll has rated the University of Cape Town the top institution in the country for scientific research. The magazine has based its ratings on the number of citations scored by researchers working in South African institutions. Since 1981, UCT researchers have garnered 18 122 citations. The University of the Witwatersrand has placed […]
Leon Perlman reports=20 on Telkom’s new range=20 of high-tech services State telecommunications monopoly, Telkom, is discovering the=20 joys of high-tech innovation and marriage with the=20 Reconstruction and Development Programme. But it had to be=20 dragged to the altar. Swiftnet, formed last month to run the FastNet service, is touted=20 by Telkom insiders as the beginning […]
THE cyber-corporation may be nearer to South Africa than many=20 people think. The Internet has featured ever more prominently in=20 discussions, articles, computer exhibitions, new software packages=20 and marketing strategy discussions over the past few months. What sounded like futuristic predictions a year ago, have moved=20 from being virtual to partial to actual reality. American […]
The closure of the Goodman Gallery points to disturbing trends in=20 the art market, reports IVOR POWELL THE news is out: after 29 years as an institution in the art world,=20 the Goodman Gallery in Hyde Park will be closing its doors at the=20 end of August, pulling down its lighting tracks, clearing its=20 storerooms, […]
THE “Woman Friday” profile on Judy Sexwale (M&G June 30 to July 7) makes Janet Wilhelm sound like a feminist Robinson Crusoe who’s been stranded on a desert island with nothing to read but The Female Eunuch. Wilhelm invokes Germaine Greer as her foil to a supposedly anti- feminist Judy Sexwale. While Greer’s rapier wit […]
The appointment of Sello Aggrey Matsabu, 40, as an executive=20 chairman of Motorola SA, may have come as a surprise. For a=20 South African to head the local operation of this giant,=20 multinational is a vote of confidence in local management=20 Virtually unknown in the corporate world, Matsabu, nonetheless,=20 has had many years of training […]
Mapula Sibanda A security briefcase fitted with 41 000 volts of electricity, a=20 piercing alarm, and a red smoke dye-bomb is becoming popular=20 among businessmen transporting cash takings in the=20 Johannesburg central business district area. Looking like an ordinary black briefcase, Safe Case operates in=20 such a way that only the authorised bearer can carry […]