ARCHITECTURE: Hannah le Roux HAVING exhausted the supply of design commissions for gallery walls in Johannesburg, architects are putting work up within them. Last year’s exhibition of apartheid and space, (… setting apart) at the Gertrude Posel Gallery, introduced plans to the realm of the artefact and artwork; now, at the Standard Bank Gallery, in […]

In the debate about whether South Africa should ally itself with Beijing or with Taipei, the choice is between a huge potential market and an immediate investor. But, argues Peter Vale, it doesn’t have to be an `either/or’ option South Africa’s great China debate has ignited inconsequential arguments which have pitted one China over the […]

FINE ART: James Garner WITH the cultural boycott a thing of the past, the idea of cultural exchange has taken on a new currency as practitioners feverishly cast off the shackles of For many, Three Ways: An Exhibition of Contemporary British Paintings at the South African National Gallery will be their first opportunity to come […]

Mondli waka Makhanya AN Eastern Transvaal National Party organiser has started an organisation for Mozambican refugees, sparking fears among non-governmental organisations in the area that the NP is providing identity documents to refugees as a way of boosting its performance in the October municipal elections. Concerned Refugees and Immigrants of Mozambique (Coreimo) is ostensibly a […]

Gaye Davis in Parliament FRONT-RUNNER for the post of public protector — who will stand between citizens and government corruption, maladministration and abuse of power — is Brian Currin, the former national director of Lawyers for Human Rights. Democratic Party senator James Selfe said “hundreds” of nominations had flooded in for both the post of […]

Mondli waka Makhanya AFRIKANER business has its back to the wall as it tries to hang on to government contracts which have been its preserve for the past 40 years. Just a week after Volkskas — now under the Absa umbrella — lost the Gauteng government’s R10-billion account to Standard Bank, the two Afrikaans press […]

A brilliant Indian student was refused entry to medical school — an apparent victim of affirmative action. When she took legal action, she was admitted. Farouk Chothia reports from Durban A young Pinetown matriculant, refused entry to medical school despite getting six distinctions, has started a flood of court challenges to affirmative action. Karin Singh […]

Finance Week editor Alan Greenblo has left the magazine — or has he? Jacques Magliolo reports BUSINESS magazine Finance Week’s editor Alan Greenblo bid a lengthy, sad, farewell in the latest issue of the magazine, in what seemed the last chapter of a long battle for control of the independent financial publication. However, he was […]

The man who exposed the `Verwoedian’ methods of Unisa’s education faculty now faces disciplinary action. Pat Sidley reports AFTER 25 years of editing and translating University of South Africa (Unisa) study guides, Sam van den Berg blew the whistle on the “morally outrageous” material the correspondence university was providing to education students. As a result, […]

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser A STUNNING performance of Benjamin Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge gave the South African tour of the London Philharmonic Orchestra a flying start at the Johannesbiurg City Hall this week. The Variations, one of Britten’s early creations for string orchestra, was a perfect choice for the LPO strings […]