Britain is once again eyeing South Africa as a market for some major defence machinery, reports Stefaans Brmmer SHOULD Cabinet decide to buy four second- hand submarines from Britain – at the bargain price of R2-billion – it may well find the deal to be a sweetener. London is hoping the cheap subs will soften […]

and terror Rehana Rossouw EVERY morning, the mother of a seven-year- old girl watched her daughter leave their Khayelitsha shack to walk to school. Most mornings, the child left home with an empty stomach. For the past few months the child hadn’t reached school. Instead, she had been going to a house nearby where she […]

HAZEL FRIEDMAN meets the Springbok Nude Girls, the Boland rockers set to share a stage with Bjork BOY toys for the thinking babe, Nineties musos sans machismo, in touch with their feminine sides and all that crap. That’s just some of the hype surrounding the Springbok Nude Girls – a band that was born only […]

Cape Town is now Boss Models turf. CHRIS ROPER watched the launch BOSS Models launch, Hemmingway’s, October 3, 1996. I arrive at 9pm “Cape Town time”, as the press release requested. A large crowd mills around at the entrance stairs, kept back by a token velvet cord and three large bouncers in equally token black […]

Eugene de Kock’s evidence in mitigation of his sentence this week centred on his background and childhood, reports Eddie Koch THAT the 1980s bush war in Namibia and Angola was South Africa’s Vietnam, a turning point in our history that left its mark in many different ways on the psyche of a generation of young […]

HAZEL FRIEDMAN went to two exhibitions that explore the latent art of historical documentation SO many stories to be told. So few ways of really telling them. This is the conclusion some viewers will draw after seeing Roger Meintjies’s visual essay on the Suez/Aida Project and Chinchona Project. Now don’t get me wrong. Meintjies, a […]

A healthy dose of chutzpah could transform the civic organisation into a leading empowerment company, writes Mungo Soggot THE South African National Civics Organisation (Sanco) has stopped throwing stones and is going into business. The radical anti-apartheid civic organisation is poised to move into the heart of capitalism when it branches out into direct insurance, […]

THE new Russian threat is no longer the massive weight of the Red Army but its pitiful weakness, while the enfeeblement of the Russian leadership is no less alarming. There is a sense of governing by mirrors as President Boris Yeltsin reassures the nation from his hospital bed. To be really heartened by the message, […]

Africa Investments Ltd, in THE MARK GEVISSER PROFILE Rhodes, Rupert, Ramaphosa WHEN Nthatho Motlana ann-ounced that Cyril Ramaphosa was to join his New Africa Investments Ltd (Nail) and lead the bid to acquire Johnnic from Anglo American, the Sowetan – wholly owned by Nail – put out a 40-page souvenir edition to commemorate the fact. […]

Stuart Hess MANY black students believe Professor Johan van Zyl should not lead Pretoria university – because he is white. Whites, according to some black students at the University of Pretoria, should not get the top job at tertiary institutions. Racism underpinned the student protest against the appointment of Professor Johan van Zyl as vice-chancellor […]