South Africa comes packaged to please at La Villette music festival. HAZEL FRIEDMAN reports from Paris LA VILLETTE is one of those curious cultural monuments that straddle the multiple personalities of Paris. Established during the mid-1980s, it has served as a sort of secular cathedral, injecting a modern multi- cultural spirit into a drab, immigrant […]
Olive Shisana, special adviser to the minister of health, in The Mark Gevisser Profile When Olive Shisana was appointed special adviser to the minister of health exactly a year ago, she found herself dreaming the same recurrent nightmare that had dogged her through her first five years of exile: “I am locked up in the […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift SADLY, the enduring memories of the opening phase of World Cup Rugby ’95 will be of a savage confrontation and a tragic accident. The pile up during the Cote d’Ivoire-Tonga tie which led to Max Brito being so badly injured will leave an indelible scar on the tournament. The sight of the […]
Jacques Magliolo reports on proposed changes to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange listings criteria Shareholders are set to obtain greater control of companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from next month. But the changes in disclosure and listing requirements fall short of statements made in a document circulated by the JSE in August last […]
Bafana Khumalo Native Tongue EVERYONE knows I’m a sucker, don’t they? I have been taken for a ride on more occasions than there have been marches in this country. Every Tom, Dick and Harry wants to take me for a ride whenever they see me. They know they will succeed — all they need to […]
ANC deputy secretary general Cheryl Carolus applied for life insurance — and discovered how HIV sufferers are The experience of buying our first home has been turned, for my husband and I, into a face-to-face confrontation with the irresponsible and discriminatory way in which the insurance industry continues to deal with HIV and Aids. It […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin JAMES LEVEN’S film Don Juan de Marco offers a refreshingly different viewpoint of a patient/psychiatrist relationship to the grim one taken by Peter Shaffer in Equus. Almost perversely, Leven eschews reality and opts for fantasy. In the course of 10 days, the patient Johnny/Juan not only transforms, with wonderfully serpentine subtlety, his […]
A new ‘RDP bureaucracy’ has come in for some sharp criticism, reports Reg Rumney No one in government actually knows how much of the money in the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) fund has actually been spent, say two academics who have been monitoring the RDP. Their criticism of the government’s role in the ANC’s, […]
Aspasia Karras interviews Judi Priday, the managing director of newly formed Quantum Insurance Newly launched Quantum Insurance is breaking new ground in the corporate risk management industry. Not only is it the first major insurance company to appoint a woman managing director, Judi Priday (32), but it uses a different approach to combat the market […]
The long serving executive office of the Comrades Marathon has resigned. Now it’s up to the old guard of administrators to ‘run’ the marathon into the future ROAD RUNNING: Julian Drew LINDA BARRON, executive officer of the Comrades Marathon Association (CMA), has been at the helm of the Natal classic for the past 12 years, […]