Chris Buchanan LIFESTYLE Believe it or not: but there is an association for curtain makers and allied products. I would imagine by “allied products” they would mean the fellows who twist the little brass hooks that the curtains hang on. Why on earth am I telling you this? Well the Curtain Makers and Allied Workers’ […]
Chris Buchanan FOOD Did you know that there are more than 1E500 collectors of militaria in Johannesburg alone? Now these macabre collectors and civilians alike can converge on a funky new meeting spot in Parktown North. The War Store and Vargas Caf is aimed at collectors but is also drawing the attention of rave kids, […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi Former Mail & Guardian journalist Vusi Mona has been appointed editor of City Press with effect from January 2001. His appointment could signal a major editorial restructuring drive at the paper’s editorial section, aimed at increasing its stake in the highly contested Sunday market. Until his appointment Mona was serving as deputy to […]
Africa John Stremlau Political pundits across the United States predict a very close presidential election between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W Bush on November 7. Equally important and also too close to call are several local campaigns that will determine which party controls the US Congress. All 435 seats of the House of […]
Marianne Merten South Africa is battling to stop the illegal fishing of its Antarctic deep-water toothfish resources, which has cost the country a conservatively estimated $150- million in income over the past four years. And it has emerged that a 1998 Cabinet memo stipulating requirements for patrolling the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone around […]
links David Le Page The country’s largest providers of Internet services to home dial-up subscribers, M-Web, World Online and SAIX, are carrying links to child pornography websites on their servers. The links are part of the Usenet service, an Internet-wide system of virtual bulletin boards on which subscribers can place and respond to messages. Users […]
Adam Mars-Jones THE HUMAN STAIN by Philip Roth (Jonathan Cape) Indian summers don’t come much more blazing than the surge in Philip Roth’s literary production that stretches from Sabbath’s Theater in 1995 at least as far as the last pages of this new novel. Yet while the intensity of this run of four books has […]
Cameron Duodu Letter from the North Chuba Okadigbo, who has just been impeached as president of the Nigerian Senate, has an impish sense of mischief. Once, when the late Nnamdi Azikiwe, first president of Nigeria, complained that an election had been rigged by the party to which Okadibgo then belonged, the National Party of Nigeria […]
Station commissioner of Umbilo police station, Ian McCall, has targeted Dalton hostel as a major source of crime in the city Paul Kirk The rats scampered away with a pride of feral cats in hot pursuit as the police stormed the municipal beer hall. Adjacent to Durban’s notorious Dalton hostel, parts of the hall have […]
Thuli Nhlapo Taiwan Buddhist Compassion Relief, a charity organisation, has come to the rescue of scores of Alexandra residents who have been homeless since the February floods while the government dallies over how to spend R557- million set aside for flood relief. The flood victims have been living in squalid conditions in a transit camp, […]