Bafana Khumalo Native Tongue EVERYONE knows I’m a sucker, don’t they? I have been taken for a ride on more occasions than there have been marches in this country. Every Tom, Dick and Harry wants to take me for a ride whenever they see me. They know they will succeed — all they need to […]
ANC deputy secretary general Cheryl Carolus applied for life insurance — and discovered how HIV sufferers are The experience of buying our first home has been turned, for my husband and I, into a face-to-face confrontation with the irresponsible and discriminatory way in which the insurance industry continues to deal with HIV and Aids. It […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin JAMES LEVEN’S film Don Juan de Marco offers a refreshingly different viewpoint of a patient/psychiatrist relationship to the grim one taken by Peter Shaffer in Equus. Almost perversely, Leven eschews reality and opts for fantasy. In the course of 10 days, the patient Johnny/Juan not only transforms, with wonderfully serpentine subtlety, his […]
A new ‘RDP bureaucracy’ has come in for some sharp criticism, reports Reg Rumney No one in government actually knows how much of the money in the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) fund has actually been spent, say two academics who have been monitoring the RDP. Their criticism of the government’s role in the ANC’s, […]
Aspasia Karras interviews Judi Priday, the managing director of newly formed Quantum Insurance Newly launched Quantum Insurance is breaking new ground in the corporate risk management industry. Not only is it the first major insurance company to appoint a woman managing director, Judi Priday (32), but it uses a different approach to combat the market […]
The long serving executive office of the Comrades Marathon has resigned. Now it’s up to the old guard of administrators to ‘run’ the marathon into the future ROAD RUNNING: Julian Drew LINDA BARRON, executive officer of the Comrades Marathon Association (CMA), has been at the helm of the Natal classic for the past 12 years, […]
Rehana Rossouw DRAFT legislation spelling out the powers of the Gender Equity Commission has been prepared by the Department of Justice, giving the body the same teeth as the Human Rights Commission to perform its tasks of ensuring gender equity in Parliament and society. The Parliamentary Commission on Gender Equity met on Wednesday to grapple […]
Pat Sidley Trainee teachers at the mainly black Colleges of Education throughout the country are seething over the textbooks they are required to study. The books, condemned as “paranoid drivel”, are just one of a number of issues that are intensifying the growing crisis in teacher training. A conference of college of education rectors met […]
GOLF: Jon Swift A HUGE test awaits reigning US Open champion Ernie Els at Shinnecock Hills next week when the South African has to shake off all the momentous events of the past 12 months … and start all over again. In many ways this will be a welcome factor for Els. For, as all […]
It was a perfectly normal lecture until Daniel Zikalala fell through the ceiling. But then, people who know Vista know it as the university where almost anything can happen. And after Zikalala had picked himself up off the floor and walked quietly out of the lecture room, class went on. The incident has become legendary […]