TELEVISION: Luke Alfred ALTHOUGH former Radio Rat Jonathan Handley is on the=20 other end of a telephone, one can imagine his eyes=20 lighting up at the magical sound of “pop”. The word has=20 special connotations for the man who, years ago, penned=20 that eerie local classic, Z-X Dan. For Handley, now in his 40s and […]

Does the defiantly un-PC humour of comedy duo Programme=20 Fluoride deserve a place in the new South Africa? JOHN=20 PHILLIPS reports IT’S 6pm in an Irish pub in central Cape Town and Chris=20 McEvoy and Roger Christian — the two determinedly=20 confrontational comedians who make up Programme=20 Fluoride — are poised over pints of Guinness […]

Sam Ramsamy is now=20 on the IOC and there is other good news for=20 Cape Town’s Olympic=20 bid, writes Julian Drew AFTER several months earlier this year when the Cape=20 Town Olympic Bid seemed to be on a kamikaze course of=20 self destruction, followed by a period of quiet=20 uncertainty, South Africa’s delegation to the […]

Justin Pearce The South African Police Services are to face a court=20 challenge over the exclusion of people with HIV=20 infection from the force. Police unions and human=20 rights law organisations have filed papers in the=20 Transvaal Supreme Court arguing that SAPS policy of=20 pre-employment HIV testing is discriminatory in that it=20 excludes people with […]

Eddie Koch A BUSINESS organisation, which this week promised to=20 mobilise more than 100 000 workers of all races to=20 neutralise union mass action against the labour bill,=20 collaborated in dirty tricks operations to undermine=20 the ANC and its trade union wing in 1991 and 1992 –=20 long after Nelson Mandela was released.=20 Top secret […]

Lynda Loxton reports on the union-backed research=20 project that has moulded the new government’s=20 industrial policy The South African government should not ape Korea in=20 the 1960s by trying to intervene to help carefully=20 chosen “winning sectors” of the economy. This is one of=20 the conclusions of a detailed study of South African=20 The study, […]

Reg Rumney IT may be fashionable to focus on manufactured goods,=20 but commodities still earn most of South Africa’s=20 foreign exchange. Precious metals, diamonds, base metals and mineral=20 products make up 69 percent of South Africa’s exports. Indeed, rather than ignore its traditional source of=20 foreign exchange, South Africa should actually=20 diversify within its traditional […]

THEATRE: David Le Page ‘GOT green chillies, makooooti!” Pertulia Ramaphala’s=20 cry echoes in between sprays of invective directed at=20 the men who harass her character Gladys in the=20 Johannesburg Civic Theatre’s Got Green Chillies Makoti. Gladys is a vegetable seller with a chequered past that=20 includes a private education interrupted by pregnancy,=20 posing as Winnie […]

Alan Morris and Stefaans Brummer IN the new South Africa, the military-industrial=20 complex should expect to find it a lot harder to=20 operate in the covert, money-is-no-object manner of the=20 The government set up the Cameron Commission to=20 investigate the industry after a large consignment of=20 South African rifles and ammunition was found in a=20 […]

Durban’s fledgling centre for the arts is preparing to=20 fly, reports HUMPHREY TYLER MAYBE they should hire lifeguards for the official=20 opening in a few weeks of the Bat Centre beside the=20 water in the harbour in Durban. Vusisizwe Mchunu=20 (mostly known as Vusi), the centre’s project manager=20 and a prize-winning poet, shook his head […]