Sechaba ka’Nkosi A single mother of three is conducting a lone mission to ensure that the largely masculine metal industry respects its female employees. So determined is Rain Chiya to prove that women are as capable of controlling massive machinery as men are, that she pushed her way into a position as a crane driver […]
Alex Dodd Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Lindiwe Sisulu has been accused of old-order politics by South Africa’s chief censor after she threatened to ban an art exhibition of child nudes at the Grahamstown arts festival. The row between the two was sparked by artist Mark Hipper’s exhibition Viscera, on show at the Rhodes University […]
There was motive for the then South African government to kill Mozambique’s Samora Machel, and there is plenty of evidence to back up these claims.
Larry Elliott and Alex Brummers A Second Look From the offices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in downtown Washington, DC, the ambush of the Thai baht by currency speculators a year ago this week looked like a brief but violent tropical storm. That great edifice, globalisation, had sprung a leak, but the problem was […]
Suzy Bell On show in Durban FOUR photographers were given R4E000 each by the Durban Metro Council to take images with the theme This is Where I Live for the annual Photo Expo in conjunction with Tourism Durban and the Durban Centre for Photography. Durban-based photographers Sally Chance, Sean Laurenz, Mark Green and Leslie Chih-Han […]
Only a masochist would beg their bank to be allowed to shovel ever- increasing chunks of their salary in to the gaping maw of bond repayments, and to do it twice a month. Or someone who knew that, bizarrely, it could prove quite profitable. According to Standard Bank, by splitting your bond repayment in two, […]
Tracy Murinik On show in Cape Town Just in case you overlooked him, I can report that Caliban is, indeed, alive and well, and effectively leaving many a little speechless and thunderstruck in his eloquent wake. Mustafa Maluka’s latest solo exhibition in the Artsstrip at the AVA, entitled (the (UNSTOPPABLE) rapist), engages, through an elaborate […]
WEDNESDAY, 6.30PM: FOLLOWING an urgent application by the Namibian Ministry of Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation the Namibian High Court has ordered the eviction of 56 families who have illegally occupied 10 Government farms in the Kunene, Omaheke and Otjozondjupa regions. The illegal settlers, who allegedly raised Cain on the farms they occupied in November last […]
Newfangled appliances don’t only make our lives easier, they create thousands of jobs, writes Ian Wylie According to Garfield, the cartoon world’s laziest cat, the greatest inventions ever are labour-saving devices such as the microwave pizza and the remote control. But it could be argued that the best inventions are those which need labour and […]
Paul Martin Wimbledon The weight of Wimbledon has, literally, frustrated Wayne Ferreira’s quest for glory on what should be his best surface – grass. He is complaining not so much about the weight of his own expectations, but rather about the heaviness of the tennis balls now being used in the men’s game. This is […]