Saliem Fakir South Africa, because of its rich biodiversity, is now attracting international companies in search of plant material that has horticultural or medicinal value. Traditional healers in this country have used various plants — about 3 000 different species — for the cure or remediation of various ailments. With new developments in chemical analysis, […]
Marion Edmunds Leader of the South African Government Delegation to the Beijing Conference, Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma refused to comment this week on China’s human-rights record, saying that South Africans were going to Beijing to talk about women’s issues, not to scrutinise the Chinese government. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch has distributed a pamphlet called Your […]
A non-government official used official government forms to authorise importation of toxic waste to the country, writes Eddie Koch DEPUTY Environment Minister Bantu Holomisa this week announced an independent commission will investigate the toxic waste scandal that has rocked his ministry — amid new evidence that officials from the Department of Environment Affairs were this […]
September sees the arts come alive in Johannesburg, report JUSTIN PEARCE and ITUMELENG OA MAHABANE ARTS ALIVE 1995 will be smaller than last year. But the organisers of what is still Johannesburg’s biggest arts event promise it will be better organised and more focused than ever before, with a mix of South African and foreign […]
FINE ART: Ivor Powell THE Johannesburg art world is in a condition which might be compared with a crisis in the stock market — where bullshit leads to bearishness. The centre of gravity has shifted; the game is no longer being played inside this country. Our art is increasingly perceived and marketed as an export […]
With a bio-kineticist in charge of their health and fitness, South Africa’s under-24 cricketers are eating, drinking and sleeping the game CRICKET: Ahitisham Manerjee MIKE TYSON gently cuffed his “opponent” on the ear for the fifth or sixth time in 90 seconds and the whole pathetic, disgusting episode was over. What a joke. And amazingly […]
Marion Edmunds Labour Minister Tito Mboweni lobbied all political players this week — from National Party leader FW de Klerk to the African Christian Democratic Party — in a bid to save the Labour Relations Bill from unravelling in Parliament. The round of meetings with political parties came in the wake of a decision by […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin THE Sum of Us movingly proclaims that love, in the face of the “agonising pain of it all”, is the greatest adventure of all, and that the risks entailed in loving must be undertaken. In an immensely good-natured film that explores family ties (both harmonious and discordant), the possibility of hurt and […]
Rehana Rossouw A teachers’ strike in protest against the withdrawal of security at Excelsior Senior Secondary School in Belhar, Cape Town, where schooling has been severely disrupted by gangsterism, ended on Monday when the education department arranged for police to protect the “We were told the police are here as a temporary measure, so we […]
Pat Sidley MICROSOFT boss Bill Gates needed a bit of help from the Salvation Army for his mega-launch of Windows 95 this week. His competitor, IBM, helped a bit too — although they would deny it. Johannesburg commuters have been greeted all week by an army of unemployed men carrying signs saying: “It’s coming …” […]