Eddie Koch and Marion Edmunds A SINGLE incident is missing from the ANC’s submission to the truth commission and it speaks volumes about why both the African National Congress and the National Party this week failed, essentially, to take moral responsibility for the abuses committed by their members in the apartheid years. In July 1988 […]
Affairs and Tourism in The Mark Gevisser Profile Of politics and hairdressing On the passage wall of Peter Mokaba’s Italianate Sandton villa is a painting of a white baby suckling at a black woman’s breasts. It is shocking for two reasons. Firstly, because its rawness is so out of place with the anodyne designer feel […]
Joshua Amupadhi Mining giant Gold Fields has finally admitted its men’s only hostel system may be at the root of violence which left 28 workers dead in the past month on three of its mines. Gold Fields representative Marion Brower said the company has begun setting up forums — a move to integrate workers regardless […]
Brennon Marcano Over R100-million in assets is up for grabs as the government decides the fate of funds accumulated by the Wool Board, which is due to merge with the National Wool Growers Association (NWGA). Minister of Land Affairs and Agriculture Derek Hanekom has decided to postpone the planned merger until a special two-man investigative […]
Does the controversial artwork Useful Objects achieved its stated aim? Feminist Nomboniso Gasa argues that it portrays women as helpless IT was with interest and irritation that I read last week’s Mail & Guardian response to Baleka Kgositsile’s objections to the ashtray created by Kaolin Thompson. It is correct to lobby for freedom of expression, […]
Pagad support appeared to be waning this week, though the organisation strongly denies it. Rehana Rossouw reports PEOPLE Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) called off a march to drug dealers this week, but the organisation said this was not evidence that it has run out of steam. Pagad representative Farouk Jaffer said the decision was […]
Tebello Radebe The meandering road leading to the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) Midrand headquarters has changed little from the late 1980s. It is possibly the only thing that has remained the same about the bank as it faces the millennium with a new direction and mandate. This year has been characterised by instability, […]
Les Misrables may be good, but it shouldn’t promise to save SA theatre, writes MARK GEVISSER LES Misrables offers a vexing conundrum. How is it possible for a production to be such a smash hit when its plot is so arcane, its rag-clad chorus so unglamorous and its tunes so unhummable; when its stage languishes […]
In a flashback to the past, the censors published a list of banned magazines last week. Why? Gaye Davis reports THE country’s chief censor, Dr Braam Coetzee, says he feels like ”lying down and saying, ‘Carry me off the field.”’ He and the 50 or so housewives, retired school inspectors, theologians, lecturers and teachers who […]
Gaye Davis A group of African National Congress women MPs have launched an eleventh-hour bid to return South Africa to the calvinistic days of star-covered nipples and black tape over salacious text. They are bidding to turn back the clock on the passage of the Film and Publications Bill, believing it is too soft on […]