Ferial Haffajee The Green Paper on broadcasting will start a shake-up of the industry which will change it fundamentally. We summarise the comments from lobbyists who have suggested everything from the scrapping of an SABC Channel and television licences to the total rejection of the Green Paper. Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI): The FXI says […]
Before you fly off to foreign shores, consider the cost of leaving home, warns Belinda Beresford With accountants taking overseas exams while doing their South African articles, and medical students reportedly planning to leave en masse, the sound of the packing of bags has become background noise to many South Africans. While many people don’t […]
Vatmaar, the Afrikaans novel by a man in his 70s which won the M-Net and the CNAprizes, recently elicited a heated auction among German publishers. The rights to a German translation were finally sold to Luchterhand, a literary house with a good reputation, for a high five-figure sum. Vatmaar has already been published Meulenhoff in […]
Belinda Beresford There’s something sensual about the feel of a fat wad of crisp new banknotes. The rippled paper is a small piece of attempted perfection which took a month to forge and contains dozens of security devices. All South African paper money is printed by the South African Bank Note Company (SABN), although the […]
FRIDAY, 6.30PM: AT stumps, South Africa were on 262/7 after 90 overs. FRIDAY, 5.30PM: SOUTH Africa were stuck with their backs against the wall on 157/5 at tea on the first day of the third Test against Pakistan at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth on Friday. Pakistani paceman Waqar Younis was the reason for […]
Mukoni T Ratshitanga More than 200 striking farm workers, including 26 mothers and their babies, were arrested in the Northern Province for allegedly violated a high court ruling preventing them from intimidating colleagues. Their lawyer, Phillip Sebola, said the workers included three pregnant women, five of their visitors and 33 parents who had left children […]
Charl Blignaut: On stage in Johannesburg There’s a very cool moment in Ilse van Hemert’s Mallemeulwals when Sandra Prinsloo, playing a glamorous and world-weary leading lady in turn-of-the-century France, gazes lazily into space and proclaims, “Love does not exist.” It’s a point she gets to prove just moments later as she plunges into bed with […]
Lizeka Mda: CITY LIMITS Andr Wessels (not his real name) still remembers the time when Indians were kicked out of Pageview, an area to the west of Braamfontein station that was predominantly Indian at the time. He was jubilant, and so was everyone else he knew. They would shout “Gaan terug [go back], coolies!” as […]
Angella Johnson The “general” who was given 1% of Virodene’s parent company for African National Congress “introductions work” claims he actually received the share as a gift from Ziggy and Olga Visser for helping them make contact with prominent black businesspeople. Documents used to attack the ANC this week for its alleged involvement in the […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi Divisions within the African National Congress’s top structures this week spared Gauteng MEC for Safety and Security Jessie Duarte her job for the time being, despite growing pressure on Premier Mathole Motshekga to sack her. Senior officials in the party are said to have been furious at Duarte’s decision this week to withdraw […]