A light-hearted look at some developments on the business and financial scene * The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) dismissed a complaint against a Paul Revere ad by the Tobacco Action Committee. The committee said the horse used in the ad was subjected to passive smoking, noting the rider’s cigarette was closer than a metre to […]

Puppets will magic away the mundane conventions of teaching science in an innovative multimedia series starting on NNTV this week, writes David Le Page A MULTIMEDIA approach to primary science education developed entirely in South Africa, and already acclaimed overseas, is to be launched today with the broadcasting of the first of thirteen half-hour episodes […]

Eddie Koch SLEAZE, secrecy and corruption are targets of the toughest action taken in Britain this century to enforce ethical behaviour by MPs in the House of Prime Minister John Major’s cabinet last week accepted the broad thrust of the controversial Nolan Committee’s report, which laid down “seven principles of public life” to guard against […]

CINEMA: Justin Pearce=20 THE tombstone inscriptions used as title credits in Ed Wood=20 seemed like a touch of macabre Tim Burton inspiration. In=20 fact, the credit for the credits should go to Ed Wood=20 himself, as is demonstrated by Plan 9 from Outer Space –=20 on for a short run at the Seven Arts — […]

With the African Nations Cup finals to look forward to, it is hoped that the administrators match the success of the SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe ON the field, South African soccer has made admirable progress since its readmission into world football three years ago but this progress has not been reflected in the administration of the […]

HAZEL FRIEDMAN, a rookie recruit to the Internet, ventures into the cyber-art world – — but decides that, after all, there’s nothing like the real thing I AM haunted by a serial nightmare. I’m travelling through space on a surfboard, when this little guy — a brunette John Denver – — flies up to me […]

International literary celebrities select their favourite reads of 1995 John Updike Shaken and enlightened by Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers (to be published in 1996 by Abacus), starring a computer that holds within its circuits a little girl as tear-wrenching as any orphan in Dickens. While winging my way to England, I kept myself calm […]

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser A STRING of world-class performances — what a rare treat for Gauteng classical music With the National Symphony Orchestra, Swedish cellist Torlief Thedeen confirmed that he is one of the most exciting and proficient cellists on world stages today. His compelling and passionate performance of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No 1 was […]

Bafana Khumalo Native tongue ‘Things are bad, B-man, I am telling you. They really are.” The man in the business suit took a slug of a three-finger scotch and lit me a cigarette. “White folks should not be behaving like this, productivity will be at an all-time low with this Rugby World Cup thing. “Already […]

The festival of theatre at the Market Lab this weekend opens windows into a range of communities. David le Page reports THE wealth of plays at the Market Laboratory’s Community Theatre Festival this weekend represents an outpouring of imaginative energy that could leave those whose only regular creative act is choosing a title at the […]