‘Advertisements’ like the one below are popping up in publications around the world. Now the M&G joins in The Fear Project Hazel Friedman ADAM BROOMBERG knows what it is like to be shit-scared. Literally. Or, rather, he has a mediated understanding of it from reading articles on experiments in which white mice were exposed to […]
The truth commission hearings in the Western Cape might have missed the full picture of human rights abuses committed there, Rehana Rossouw reports UNITED Democratic Front (UDF) activists, who bore the brunt of the state’s iron fist in the Western Cape, did not show up at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s hearings in Cape Town […]
seeming fair Clients often complain that they lost their court case because the judge was biased. When are they to be taken seriously? MOST lawyers have heard their unsuccessful clients complain, after their case was lost, about the judge who decided against them. If the complaint is merely that the judge was an idiot, then […]
shafts The mining industry is about to introduce a state-of-the-art health and safety sytem, reports Eddie Koch A revolutionary health and safety Bill for the mining industry — along with last week’s dramatic findings of the inquiry into the Vaal Reefs disaster — will give thousands of workers who experience some of the worst safety […]
night Bafana Khumalo ‘Now what is wrong with this guy? Where did he get his licence? Pep Stores?!!” It’s another adventure starring yours truly, children. This time I am sitting in a taxi and the driver is not a happy man at all. His unhappiness stems not from the fact that he has to spend […]
South Africa continues to support the manufacture of ‘smart mines’ despite foreign opposition, writes Justin Pearce South Africa has again refused to support an outright ban on landmines, in defiance of the wishes of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs This week South Africa went to the Review Conference on the United Nations Convention on […]
Two years of transition: A series by leading South African authors, celebrating the second birthday of our democracy Njabulo Ndebele AFTER some 20 years of absence, I returned home with a family in 1991. On the first Saturday of our return, I took them on a drive to see the house in which I was […]
Claims of fraud have surfaced to haunt truth commission official Hlengiwe Mkhize. Stefaans BrUmmer reports TRUTH commissioner Hlengiwe Mkhize, head of the truth body’s reparations committee, is at the centre of a storm over the “collapse” of a non-governmental organisation racked by allegations of maladministration. In February remaining staffers of the National Children and Violence […]
POP/ROCK: Chris Roper TINA TURNER presents an energetic and polished show, and, observing the enthusiastic and adulatory response of the audience, you can come to only one conclusion: if Nelson Mandela was a woman, he’d be Tina Turner. There is just no way to engage objectively with the music and performance of the supreme Granmeister […]
Rehana Rossouw PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela and Vodacom managing director Alan Knott-Craig are pictured shaking hands in the latest edition of the company’s magazine Vodaworld. This in-house magazine not only provides clients with information about how Madiba relaxes, but the latest information about its products. Airlines and most top hotels have published in-house magazines for decades […]