A new Idasa report highlights ministries which have=20 tabled new laws, and those which haven’t, reports Eddie=20 IF Vaclav Havel were judge, Nelson Mandela would=20 triumph. The playwright and premier of the Czech=20 Republic believes that reconstruction in his country is=20 not about replacing socialism with capitalism, or=20 poverty with wealth, but “about truth, how […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin IN Walt Disney’s 33rd animated feature film,=20 Pocahontas, a native American heroine, is cast in the=20 mould of the Little Mermaid, Beauty and Jasmin, all of=20 whom are free spirits. With her sculpted features and=20 long flowing black hair, she goes wherever the wind=20 takes her. And it leads her directly to […]
FINE ART: Ivor Powell LET’S talk materials here. On the Newtown Galleries’=20 exhibition by Marc Edwards, Albert Munyai and Jeremy=20 Wafer is a piece titled Form .Evolved From a Force –=20 also described as “on loan from Barnett Auto Spares”.=20 Edwards’ work is the hideously mangled, shattered and=20 bloodstained wreckage of a car that has […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift JONAH LOMU and James Small. A confrontation which has=20 enthralled and excited ever since the tournament drew=20 towards a possible final meeting between South Africa=20 and New Zealand. Lomu is, to quote England coach Jack Rowell, “a=20 phenomenon” and “the difference” in the 42-29 scoreline=20 which condemned the Poms to a play-off […]
Reg Rumney So far, labour relations look calmer than they have=20 been in previous years, despite union protest action=20 over the Draft Labour Bill. Wage increases this year are likely at least to match=20 inflation of 10 to 11 percent and in some cases outpace=20 Until the Draft Labour Bill heightened tensions, labour=20 relations seemed […]
As the Rugby World Cup reaches its peak this weekend,=20 Luke Alfred looks at a book which examines the=20 relationship between the sport and life in South Africa IN AUGUST 1992, a dark month for South Africa in=20 general and rugby in particular, a journalist from the=20 Sunday Star wrote: “It is hard to write […]
Reg Rumney For many small businessmen tax planning boils down to=20 declaring half of what you actually earn; employees in=20 the lower ranks of big companies don’t even have that=20 illegal option. Both would benefit from employing a good accountant so=20 that they can participate in the upper-class sport of=20 avoiding — not evading, which […]
The Rugby World Cup has been an enormous success as a=20 catalyst for the kind of national unity which is possible in South Africa, writes Jon Swift
Bruce Cohen WEB FEET Aliweb’s the key The World Wide Web (WWW) browsers Netscape and Mosaic=20 are the virtual keys to the virtual world — but they=20 only unlock the door to cyberspace. Once you’re in,=20 where do you go? What makes the Internet truly=20 accessible are the search engines that have been=20 established around […]
CRICKET: Jon Swift PERHAPS the terminally cynical would regard it as a=20 case of putting your marketing money where the mouth of=20 the consumer of the future is, but the R5-million=20 Bakers have put into mini-cricket is just the impetus=20 cricket development needs. The innovation of mini-cricket among the waist-high=20 members of this country’s community […]