Tracy Murinik On show in Cape Town Joyous myths that are conventionally touted around the institutional roles of family; of the experiences of motherhood, fatherhood and childhood, most often attempt to preclude those questions or observations which might challenge them. Framed within sentimentality and much religious moralising, the complex range of experiences that people endure […]

Chiara Carter Image may not be all, but the brew of perceptions and policy that translates into voter support looks decidedly murky for the African National Congress and the National Party in the Western Cape. A MarkData survey released by Professor Lawrence Schlemmer indicates the haemorrhage of support for the NP countrywide has not stopped […]

SARAH BULLEN in Johannesburg | Thursday 2.30pm. BLACK CLOUDS are gathering over the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Thursday as Wednesday’s 6,2% fall has accelerated, with 8,55% wiped off the market by 2.00pm. With the contagion of what is being termed the ‘Russian flu’ hitting global emerging markets, the price of local stock is falling with […]

MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Thursday 7.00pm. The JSE was hammered again by the Russian market and the effect it’s having on investor sentiment about emerging markets. The all share dropped 314 points to close at 5218, while industrials plummeted 387 points to finish at 6106. Financials, tied closely to the debt and currency markets, haemorrhaged […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Thursday 6.00pm. SOUTH Africa’s top corruption investigator, Judge Willem Heath, has been asked to investigate senior Mpumalanga Parks Board directors and officials for corruption after they allegedly issued irregular promissory notes to a series of international financial institutions. Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa confirmed in a statement to African Eye News Service […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 8.30pm. SECURITY officials assigned to the Non-Aligned Movement summit to be held in Durban at the weekend on Thursday warned people to be wary of bogus convention co-ordinators who are issuing false invitations and accreditation cards. Police said on Thursday that people masquerading as co-ordinators are issuing fraudulent documents for […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.30pm. THE South African under-14 tennis teams competing in the NTT World Junior Tennis Final in Nagoya, Japan got off to a good start on Wednesday, with each team managing to beat one of the seeded teams. The boys’ team of Izak van der Merwe, Craig Smith and Shaun Ellison […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday 11.00PM. ZIMBABWEAN soldiers have started to return home from the Democratic Republic of Congo — in body bags. The state-controlled media on Thursday reported that two Zimbabwean soldiers had been killed, three were missing and 15 injured following a rebel attack on Kinshasa, the DRC capital city, this week. However […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.00pm. A LOBBY of labour, sport and business groups on Thursday threatened to apply for an urgent court order forcing Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma to withdraw the Tobacco Products Control Amendments Bill because they say it is unconstitutional. The Bill is due to be tabled in Parliament on Monday. The […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kigali | Thursday 9.00PM. FIGHTING continued in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, Kinshasa, on Thursday after rebel forces determined to topple President Laurent Kabila infiltrated the city. The allied forces backing Kabila appear to have maintained a hold on the city one day after fierce artillery battles broke out in the eastern […]