Louise Flanagan THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has refused to disclose details of any links between Military Intelligence (MI) and individuals in a private security company accused of running a destabilisation campaign against the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa). This raises the possibility that MI may still have well-hidden links […]

With the advent of portable office technology one need never be away from work, reports Leon Perlman NOW that global system’s mobile (GSM) cellular telephony has firmly entrenched itself as a pivotal business productivity tool, a new breed of Virtual Office workers using “Portable Office” technology is beginning to emerge. These “offices” typically consist of […]

Niel Bierbaum NATIONAL radio stations have continued to lose audiences at an alarming rate. The figures show that Afrikaans Stereo, SAfm, 5FM and Radio 2000 have all lost listenership over the past six months, continuing a downward trend that began two years ago. Likewise, a number of the African language stations have also lost audience, […]

THERE are not many people who can question President Nelson Mandela’s moral authority. There are not many who have the credibility and authority to stand up to him. Indeed, there are not many who would have the courage to try. This week’s crisis over Nigeria threw the spotlight on one of the very few people […]

Professor Charles van Onselen, Wits University historian, in THE MARK GEVISSER PROFILE PERHAPS the problem Charles van Onselen has, I think as we sit together on a Sunday afternoon, is that he looks — ; and sometimes sounds — like the enemy: bulging eyes beneath a balding pate, ware-ding khaki shorts, blustering physicality, bombast and […]

FINE ART: James Garner KROTOA’S Room — in the Grain Cellar at the Castle, Cape Town — will confound anyone with a penchant for reductive categorisations. Consisting of a photographic component by Lien Botha and “utility furniture” by Raymond Smith, the exhibition operates somewhere in the undefined territory between historical display, site-specific installation and commercial […]

The government is finally addressing the tertiary education crisis brought on by students unable to pay fees, reports Philippa Garson THE government will contribute a record sum of around R260-million towards a new loans fund to aid needy students next year — ; a sum five times greater than the R55-million set aside by the […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift For the South African players, playing against the English is a special experience, but beating them would be even better THERE is something very special about playing against England. South African opener Andrew Hudson is just one of the 11 men who face England in the current Test at Centurion Park who […]

Niel Bierbaum M-NET has refuted claims by the SABC that it earns 70 percent of its advertising revenue during its unencrypted open window. According to Clare O’Neil, manager of strategic planning and research at Oracle Airtime Sales, which sells advertising on behalf of M-Net, the pay station has “never earned R430-million of advertising revenue in […]

ATHLETICS:Julian Drew WHEN the iron curtain was swept aside in Bulgaria in November 1989 with the toppling of Todor Zhivkov’s discredited regime, the athletics career of Rumen Koprivchin crumbled too. Back then when his life and all around him seemed in turmoil he would have given short shrift to anyone who told him that in […]