One of the pioneers of long-distance education, Michael Young, suggests a new use for Robben Island IN the primary school hangs a large model of the most famous prison island in the world. The plaster island, made by the children, is green and peppered with tiny squares for the white houses where they and their […]
The Markets Jacques Magliolo Suddenly, mysteriously, the markets have gone strangely=20 quiet. After two weeks of intense activity, the=20 Johannesburg Stock Exchange trading floor this week was=20 more like a museum than South Africa’s financial centre. To make matters worse, nobody seems able to provide a=20 reason for the total lack of investor interest across […]
Native tongue Bafana Khumalo ‘I HATE these bloody coconuts, I wish somebody would shoot them,” she said as she viciously ground out a half-smoked cigarette with the heel of her shoe. I had never come across this word coconut before and I was certain that my companion would explain its meaning to me. Her name […]
As increasing numbers of coloured people become disillusioned with the big political parties, a new group has stepped into the breach, writes Stefaans Brummer ‘THE brown man’s struggle did not end when Nelson Mandela was freed. Our struggle is against a new form of slavery which hangs over us like a black cloud,” is how […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin LEGENDS of the Fall has the look and feel of a film made=20 in the 1950s. Its emotionally overwrought style, replete=20 with biblical echoes, is resonant of Elia Kazan’s self- important adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden=20 (1955) in its treatment of sibling rivalries and love.=20 Most of the characters have […]
Assassinated Namibian advocate Anton Lubowski may have been set up as a Military Intelligence informer, reports Louise Flanagan Documentary evidence which points to South African Military Intelligence (MI) having framed assassinated Windhoek advocate Anton Lubowski as a military source in an apparent attempt to cover up for his killers has now come to light after […]
Glenn Adler argues that workers and management alike should overcome their instinctive suspicion of the plan to create workplace forums THE proposal to create workplace forums — in the new Labour Relations Act (LRA) — is an attempt to bring South Africa’s move to political democracy into the workplace. Political democratisation has created the opportunity […]
ICE HOCKEY fans are in for a treat — the Pool C World=20 Championships, featuring top new teams such as Lithuania=20 and Croatia. Between this week and the end of the month, 10 teams will=20 fight for places in the semi-finals and finals at the=20 Carlton and Krugersdorp rinks. “From a purely competitive point of […]
Jacques Magliolo Engen has intensified its thrust for exploration and=20 production of oil in West Africa in an attempt to stem=20 declining profits and to rectify a free-falling share=20 The chemical and oil giant’s 1994 financial year saw a=20 13,6 percent drop in earnings per share and its share=20 price has fallen from a 1993 […]
The actions of a British paper led to the arrest of a mercenary accused of third force killings. Did they double-cross a murderer for the sake of a good story? Eddie Koch reports THE London Sunday Times is facing controversy over its role in the arrest of a mercenary who was its source in an […]