FINE ART: Andrew Putter THE first time I saw Ina van Zyl’s work was in Gif, the hard-core Afrikaner sex comic produced by Bittercomix and Hond in 1994. Tucked away amid the refreshing vulgarity of bad-boy artists like Joe Dog and Conrad Botes, Van Zyl’s two little stories came as a complete surprise. Quiet, questioning, […]
THEATRE: Matthew Krouse Long ago, when words were powerful, we would wish misfortune on our enemies with the oath: “May the gods shit on you!” This was supposed to remind us of our predestiny; that we are all at the mercy of fate. Life today may have altered, but the question of relinquished responsibility — […]
While Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe tries to quash all discussion about a successor, there are candidates waiting in the wings, reports Julius Zava Since Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe announced on television earlier this year that he will soon retire, identifying a successor has become a major topic of debate in Zimbabwe. But there is a […]
THE following statistics provided by the Brixton Murder and Robbery unit apply to the period from January to June 1996. Some arrests may involve multiple suspects for one case: Murder: 112 cases opened; 111 arrests. Robbery: 122 cases opened; 112 arrests. Attempted Robbery: Six cases opened; four arrests. Attempted Murder: 28 cases opened; 11 arrests. […]
THEATRE: Stephen Gray SOMETHING about Pieter-Dirk Uys is a lesson to us all. The biggest laugh he draws in Truth Omissions is about English speaking — that there is so little of it on TV these days, no one knows what’s going on anymore. This is his licence to keep developing his sly slanging act […]
Tebello Radebe Extensive new capital investments in South Africa have been part of lengthy discussions between the Japanese giant, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and its local affiliate, Toyota South Africa (TSA), which has become embroiled in a controversy over the National Empowerment Consortium (NEC) bid for Anglo’s stake in Johnnic. Asked again this week to […]
South Africans wanting to bring home people they’ve married overseas or intend to marry at home have to fork out R6 000, reports Marion Edmunds The Department of Home Affairs is making 28-year-old Mitch Yuill pay for his love — it is costing him more than R6 000 to bring his British-born bride into the […]
Mungo Soggot CLAIMS that the Mossgas sale was an expensive botch were bolstered this week after it emerged that yet another consultancy was hired by the government at the last minute to help massage the process. Officials have confirmed that British consultancy Chem Systems was recruited to evaluate bids for the troubled project in the […]
Judith Watt THE Grande Arche de la Defense is not a practical venue for a fashion show, but anything is possible during the Paris shows — and last Friday Belgian designer Dirk Bikkembergs presented his 1997 menswear collection there. As about 20 briefly clad male models marched on like automata, the final boot was given […]
Victoria Brittain and Larry Elliott THE wealth of the world’s 358 billionaires is greater than the combined annual incomes of nearly half the world’s people, according to a United Nations report highlighting the growing gulf between rich and poor countries. Warning that the disparity threatens an instability that can only be tackled by a new […]