Alex Dodd SOUTH AFRICA THE STRUCTURE OF THINGS THEN by David Goldblatt (Oxford University Press) THE INVISIBLE LINE: THE LIFE AND PHOTOGRAPHY OF KEN OOSTERBROEK by Mike Nicol (Kwela/Random House) This year has been a big one for photographer David Goldblatt. Not only did he become the first South African photographer to be honoured with […]

Andrew Worsdale Movies of the week A lthough it’s a box-office hit in the United States, There’s Something About Mary starring Cameron Diaz has film critics divided. One of my peers, who shall remain nameless, said “it’s the biggest load of crap I’ve seen all year”. I, on the other hand, thought it quite enjoyable. […]

no African renaissance’ Despite its limited resources, South Africa stands to gain by developing its own HIV vaccine, instead of waiting for the West to provide, writes Lesley Cowling More than 25 clinical trials of different types of vaccines against HIV – the virus that causes Aids – are under way all over the world. […]

Maureen Barnes Down the tube There is no crisis. That’s what Dr Khulu Mbatho from the Department of Home Affairs said to Chris Gibbons about our electoral . if you’ll pardon the expression . arrangements. Well it depends, of course, on your definition of crisis. Compared to the San Franscisco earthquake, the bubonic plague and […]

World Aids day came and went this week with a big show of concern. President Nelson Mandela spoke out about the silence around Aids and everywhere people were wearing red ribbons. There is clearly a new public awareness trail that has been blazed by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. But impressive though the awareness campaign has […]

Sundowns Andrew Muchineripi Soccer When Durban assistant referee Tiny Chandermoney raised his flag to signal a “goal” by Joel Masilela of Sundowns offside last weekend he could hardly have imagined just how big a storm he would stir. My mind went back in time to the late Liverpool manager Bill Shankly and his remark that […]

When structuring a salary package, negotiate on your net salary, writes Belinda Beresford It’s great getting a new job. But just because you and your employer have signed your sides of the contract, things may not be quite as straightforward as they seem. One cloud about to rain on your parade could be the taxman. […]

Andrew Hawks Enna Kayopa has never heard of the new drugs that are offering a future for so many Aids patients in Europe and North America. She lives in a village in rural Zambia, in Southern Africa. She will be dead before triple combination therapy is available through the public health care system here. After […]

Robert Mattes: A SECOND LOOK The details of the first Opinion ’99 survey (a consortium of Idasa, Markinor and the South African Broadcasting Corporation) have been widely reported. But once one backs away from the fine brush strokes of the numbers, what emerges is a distinct picture of the South African electorate six to seven […]

Dave Hill: FIRST PERSON When the British High Court heard earlier this week that former airline pilot James Williams’ “life had been destroyed” by the failure of an operation to give him back a foreskin, some might have suspected a degree of overstatement. Some – but not an awful lot of men, especially if they’ve […]