Philippa Garson describes a typical working day in Alexandra’s ‘Beruit’ in April 1992.
‘IT is not for the President to determine whether or not the ANC was justified in its action on the day in question, whatever his personal feelings on the issue might be.” — Tony Leon (DP) ”We are dealing here with a President who, having made his statement in the Senate, has demonstrated to us […]
Jean-Pierre Rossouw MOVEABLE FEAST SOME cities are weatherless. You can safely guess that the sun will set on a clear sky and rise again on the same spotless horizon. Not so in Cape Town. Here seasons have their own personalities, each of them distinct. So when a restaurant sets out a menu that tries to […]
Nearly three decades of sanctions and boycotts will have ended as Cape Town artist Malcolm Payne unveils his piece for the Venice Biennale.
HILTON JUDIN is a young architect who has set out to undermine the foundations of his profession. What drives him is the knowledge he was obliged to confront when doing research into low-cost housing in South Africa. What he saw as he worked his way through the archives of the locations and townships was the […]
In the wake of our report last week on South Africa’s close relationship with Indonesia, Simon Ratcliffe says there should be even greater concern over our relations with Sudan Between October 1990 and September 1992 I lived and worked in Khartoum, Sudan, for the United Nations Development Programme. I was witness to acts of extreme […]
Pat Sidley WEDNESDAY — D-day for health warnings on tobacco advertising — was an ultra-light affair: * Many radio stations were exempted from broadcasting cigarette ads with health warnings. * Warnings on cigarette packs did not appear after being given a stay of execution * Some tobacco companies simply withdrew their ads from the marketplace. […]
Eddie Koch A SPECIAL police unit this week arrested Colonel Louis Botha — the man who masterminded covert security police backing for Inkatha in the 1980s — and charged him with several political murders carried out at the Sources close to the Independent Task Unit (ITU), a team of detectives who operate out of Safety […]
As Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s adviser, Mario Ambrosini, is employed by the government, but he has been accused of planning to tear it apart, writes Ann Eveleth MARIO AMBROSINI, the American lawyer suspected of masterminding Inkatha’s “secession” strategy leaked last week, is on the government payroll earning more than the country’s Chief Justice. The African National Congress […]
Ann Eveleth SENIOR Inkatha Freedom Party leaders this week closed ranks around party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and engaged in a concerted damage-control exercise following the untimely leakage of the contentious “20- point plan” last week. While African National Congress leaders accused the party of launching a bid to secede KwaZulu/Natal from the rest of the […]