Firms in the West want to stop it, but will consumers pay a premium to end Third World exploitation, asks Roger Cowe CHILDREN paid a pittance to pick jasmine for French perfume houses before dawn in the mud of the Nile delta have a potential new ally – the British shopper. Consumers are now in […]

Rehana Roussouw BANISHMENT to the Clanwilliam Magistrate’s Court kitchen has not dissuaded prosecutor Jonas White from mobilising his community against crime. Since mid-August, White has been stripped of his office and his duties and forced to spend every working day in the kitchen. The University of the Western Cape-trained lawyer, who has been a prosecutor […]

TENNIS: Jon Swift IT is apposite, with the high-profile Champions Tournament taking the limelight this weekend at a venue which has caused the Sandton kugels to make a detour to the up- market shops around Sandton Square, to contrast this with the other end of the tennis spectrum and an event which happened last weekend. […]

ANDREW WORSDALE visited the famous African film director Idrissa Ouedraogo EMINENT film director Idrissa Ouedraogo, born in Burkina Faso and based in Paris, is currently in the sixth week of shooting his first English-language film in Zimbabwe’s Domboshawa, a rustic area outside Harare. Domboshawa has duly been dubbed “Dombowood”, location for several of the recent […]

MUSIC: Bafana Khumalo LAST weekend’s Soul Invasion Tour at the Johannesburg Stadium was a memory lane affair rather than a young-and-with-it bash where the latest trends in dance and music ruled the night. What with Randy Crawford leading the pack of late Sixties and early Seventies crooners; The Stylistics; those kings of funk Kool and […]

The escape of nearly 1 000 prisoners this year highlights fault lines in the over- burdened criminal justice system. David Shapshak reports THE parlous state of the South African Police Service was underlined yet again this week with the release of figures showing that more people escaped from police custody this year than from all […]

Stefaans Brmmer SOUTH AFRICA has joined the body of nations agitating for a complete ban on the production, stockpiling, transfer and use of anti-personnel landmines – but campaigners say South Africa should prove its bona fides by legislating a complete ban locally. Jackie Selebi, South Africa’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, last week […]

consultants Lynda Loxton THE government is finding that trying to get to grips with the booming consultancy industry is as difficult as wrestling with an octopus. This emerged in the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee when it considered the special report by Auditor General Henri Kluever on consultancy services. The committee heard this week that although […]

Eddie Koch EUGENE DE KOCK’S autobiography, hand-written in his cell, is being kept under wraps by the colonel and his lawyers because it contains deeply personal details about the man who became apartheid’s most ruthless killer. It describes his upbringing in a right-wing family on a plot near Springs. He attended the Baanbreker Primary School […]