The Budget did not reflect RDP priorities, according to the country’s biggest organised force, Cosatu. This is an edited version of the ANC-alliance partner’s Compared to apartheid Budgets, the 1995/6 Budget does have a number of positive features. Judged in terms of the fundamental shift required by the Reconstruction and Development Programme, however, the Budget […]

Beninoise artist Romuald Hazoume makes traditional=20 religious masks — out of discarded objects. ‘I’m just=20 sending back the rubbish sent from Europe to Africa,’ he=20 told Tony Karon=20 ROMUALD HAZOUME probably turned more heads than any=20 other artist visiting the Johannesburg Biennale. =20 The young Beninoise exhibited a series of traditional=20 religious masks crafted from […]

THEATRE: Guy Willoughby=20 GRAHAM WEIR is one clever, talented, protean man of=20 theatre. In a number of shows of his own and others’=20 devising, he’s proved he can act, sing, dance and think=20 on his feet — no mean achievement in the local=20 performing arts world.=20 Brief Descriptions is his one-man, award-winning view of=20 human […]

Sue Lund has calmly negotiated the ‘landmines’ of the land issue to write a balanced five-year plan for land distribution, writes Eddie Koch TEN years ago she was an idealistic young student who wanted to change the world. Today, still looking wide- eyed and innocent, Sue Lund is doing just that. She is the author […]

RAVAN, one of the stalwart anti-apartheid publishers of=20 the dark years of South Africa’s history, have started a=20 new series of titles called the Ravan Writers Series.=20 It was Ravan that first published JM Coetzee; that=20 published Mongane Wally Serote’s first (and thus far=20 only) novel. Many of their books were banned by the=20 white […]

Louise Flanagan Defence Minsister Joe Modise says he wants to get to the bottom of the Anton Lubowski affair — but he is refusing to meet a Weekly Mail & Guardian request to view the files which Military Intelligence (MI) supposedly have on the assassinated Namibian advocate. By producing the files, the military should be […]

In film and fiction, vampires are bigger than ever. Now,=20 a new author has given the ‘undead’ a vigorous new life,=20 writes Shaun de Waal=20 EXACTLY a century ago, Bram Stoker was hard at work on=20 his novel Dracula, which was to become the prototype for=20 innumerable incarnations, in books and films, of the=20 figure […]

Affirmative action appointees are job-hopping for ever-higher salaries, reports Mapula Sibanda A new affirmative action trend is taking root in South Africa’s job market as skilled black recruits find themselves in short supply, and hop from one management post to another — sometimes changing positions for as little as R100. These moves would not have […]

THE Norgaard principles are named after Carl Aage Norgaard, a Danish national and president of the European Commission on Human Rights, who was asked at the time of the Namibian settlement to frame guidelines defining the concept of a political prisoner. For a crime to be deemed a political offence, he stipulated the following should […]

The major problem at Rhodes University is not ‘unruly’ students, but the old boys’ club that runs the place, argues lecturer Colm Allan Unruly students have provided a convenient scapegoat at our crisis-ridden universities. But the focus should shift to the slow pace of transformation at these institutions. The source of the crisis lies in […]