The white paper on education released last week is revolutionary, as far as it goes — but it doesn’t go far enough, writes Ahmed Essop THE white paper on education and training released by the Ministry of Education last week marks a watershed in its content, its context, and its development. It commits the government […]
Stefaaans Brummer THE mere fact of another young man in Pretoria testing HIV-positive was not what caused the news to spread so rapidly through the city’s sizeable gay community last week. Too many have already had contact with the condition to take special note. But in the case of 25-year-old student Martin Erasmus it was […]
Hazel Friedman AT first glance, Ricky Burnett’s exhibition at his Newtown Galleries looks like a classic case of ”if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”. Here’s the party-pooper, the proverbial brat who refused to join the circus procession, suddenly getting in on the act. Not only does his exhibition coincide with Africus ’95; it also […]
THEATRE: Robert Greig ONLY recently has Beach Boys’ music been seen as anything more than pap — happy, bouncy, high-school rock with sand between the toes. Their slightly chastened last two collections are musically sophisticated, if uncomfortably self-regarding. They still have those characteristic, abrupt shifts of tempo and tone which are also found in the […]
SOCCER: Clinton Asary LOG leaders Kaizer Chiefs face an uphill battle on Saturday when they host Cape Town side Hellenic at the Rand Stadium. Chiefs will looking for revenge after their surprise defeat against Wits in the BP Top 8 final last week. Hellenic crushed Wits 3-0 in a league game on Tuesday night. The […]
Winnie Mandela gets a fresh chance as heavy-handed police actions give her the advantage, writes Gaye BLUNDERS on the part of police and justice department officials in the raid on deputy minister Winnie Mandela’s Soweto home have tossed her a political lifeline and forced the ANC and the government to back off from taking swift […]
Gaye Davis in Cape Town DR ROB Davies spent a couple of hours in his Sea Point surgery on Monday evening, hearing complaints and dispensing advice. But those who packed the small room weren’t there with physical ailments, and Davies is not a medical doctor. The ANC MP was making one of his regular appearances […]
Justin Pearce AIDS is the linking theme among the 70 films which have been brought together for a festival starting in Cape Town tonight — and they range from Aids — Life at Stake (a Kenyan Jim-goes-to-Nairobi tale about a migrant worker who contracts HIV in the city) to Safe is Desire (“learn how to […]
THERE is a common belief that the ANC’s fiery four — Winnie Mandela, Bantu Holomisa, Peter Mokaba and Rocky Malebane-Metsing — are too powerful and too popular among the grassroots for the party to deal with them firmly and adequately. This is a myth that needs to be Most of the power and influence of […]
An activist who campaigned for rent boycotts during the apartheid years now uses the same tactics to persuade people to pay for services, reports Gaye Davis AS a young activist, Chris Ngcobo used to go door to door persuading Soweto residents to boycott rent and service payments. That was in the late 1980s, when the […]