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/ 20 November 2006
Put yourself in the shoes of Imelda Marcos. At the height of your power you are the wife of a president, one of the 10 richest women in the world, intimate with the world’s dictators and the owner of arguably the biggest private collection of art — and footwear — on the planet. Then try to squeeze into those sling-backs again today.
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/ 20 November 2006
Out of the vast stretch of Karoo farmlands, surrounded by hills, emerges a cluster of simply elegant cream coloured buildings with grey corrugated iron roofs. They house, among other institutions, the Hantam Community Education Trust’s school, Umthombo Wolwazi (Fountain of Knowledge), built on 11ha of donated land on the farm Grootfontein between Colesberg and Steynsburg in the Northern Cape.
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/ 20 November 2006
Poor people are needlessly dying because drug companies and the governments of rich countries are blocking the developing world from obtaining affordable medicines, according to an Oxfam report released recently. Five years to the day after the Doha declaration — a groundÂÂbreaking deal to give poor countries access to cheap drugs — was signed at the World Trade Organisation, Oxfam says things are worse.
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/ 20 November 2006
No matter what excuses are made about player availability, poor preparation times and shambolic administration, 2006 will go down as a true annus horribilis for South Africa on the international soccer front. With the domestic game producing little in the way of international standard footballers, has the time arrived to look outside our borders for players?
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/ 20 November 2006
Alex Sudheim finds out why Greig Coetzee’s <i>Johnny Boskak Is Feeling Funny</i> shares parallels with Martin Scorsese’s <i>Taxi Driver</i>.
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/ 20 November 2006
"Madam president, please can you intervene as we are being bombarded by the honourable member’s cellphone," an MP stood to complain about a fellow MP whose phone continually emitted an irksome guttural ringtone as Imbia Sylvester from Cameroon was making his presentation.
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/ 20 November 2006
Confirmed carnivore Michael Hann eats meat every day — so how did he fair in his bid to go green?
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/ 20 November 2006
Andrew Lamprecht visits Willem Boshoff’s outdoor exhibition comprising 15 000 artificial flowers.
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/ 20 November 2006
Kerosene lamps and sore eyes were once routine elements of grading student homework in Zimbabwe. Solar electricity has changed that. Caroline Hombe, a 35-year-old teacher in rural Mhondoro, can go through the pile of books stacked on her table without worrying that the onset of darkness will put an end to her work.
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/ 20 November 2006
Thabo Mbeki aspires to crafting a "developmental state" capable of directing the economy on to a path of innovation, sustainable growth, redistribution and poverty reduction. Adopted as a goal in part because the level of private investment has been disappointing, the aspiration is otherwise built on the ANC’s admiration for the East and South-East Asian economies, where rapid economic growth over the past three decades has been guided by activist states.