`I BELIEVE in inner beauty,” says Tarryn Meaker, 17 years old and winner of Cosmopolitan’s Supermodel 1996 competition held at Carfax, at Johannesburg’s Newtown precinct, last week. She’s won a place in the annual search for the International Ford Models Supermodel of the World competition to be held in Los Angeles later this year. The […]
Max Mosselson AS a disinterested observer it seems that the recent “acid-burn case”, as it has come to be known, has four important repercussions for the South African legal system, apart from the individual participants in the drama. As any legal practitioner with experience in the field will confirm, there is an almost total blanket […]
Eddie Koch South Africa’s first legal dagga plot — an experimental project near Rustenburg in the North West province — has just completed pioneering research which could provide farmers with a lucrative new cash crop. The Tobacco and Cotton Research Institute (TCRI) recently produced a report on a two-year research project aimed at developing a […]
Marion Edmunds IT’S being called the Group Areas Act for immigrants. Foreigners who acquire permanent residence status in the new South Africa will not be allowed to move home from one province to another for a year after their application is approved. Nor will they be able to change jobs without permission from the Home […]
The Mark Gevisser Profile A voice of truth and dissent My comrades and friends killed my granny with fire… But before that, they sucked her breasts dry… so that she could burn well This poem by Sandile Dikeni, soon to be published in the upcoming two-volume edition of Staffrider, must be the most devastating and […]
Art was put in service of advertising in the spectacle that was BMW’s Sandton Square sculpture garden. IAN TROMP reports `IN the beginning there was silence.” Not even powerful lighting and loud music could redeem the voice-over accompanying Revelations in Form, an exhibition that was really a product launch for BMW’s new 5 Series. A […]
Hazel Friedman and Jacquie Golding-Duffy explain to confused viewers how to choose between the two satellite services — analogue and digital Astrasat, the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s satellite channel is being flighted free-of-charge to television audiences, but that will not be the case for much longer. According to SABC group communications manager Enoch Sithole, viewers […]
FINE ART: Andrew Putter THE first time I saw Ina van Zyl’s work was in Gif, the hard-core Afrikaner sex comic produced by Bittercomix and Hond in 1994. Tucked away amid the refreshing vulgarity of bad-boy artists like Joe Dog and Conrad Botes, Van Zyl’s two little stories came as a complete surprise. Quiet, questioning, […]
THEATRE: Matthew Krouse Long ago, when words were powerful, we would wish misfortune on our enemies with the oath: “May the gods shit on you!” This was supposed to remind us of our predestiny; that we are all at the mercy of fate. Life today may have altered, but the question of relinquished responsibility — […]
While Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe tries to quash all discussion about a successor, there are candidates waiting in the wings, reports Julius Zava Since Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe announced on television earlier this year that he will soon retire, identifying a successor has become a major topic of debate in Zimbabwe. But there is a […]