‘Braknaars’ of Sourvomit Sickened by Cape Town’s disrespectful tourists, ever-increasing living costs, its daily whitening and a coloured populace Americanised into clones, Zebulon Dread moved to the unknown The unknown is Afrikaans, white Swellendam, 230-odd kilometres from Cape Town, and its twin, coloured Suurbraak 20km away. There I squat on private land amid the mountainous […]
Southern African sisters got their very own Web address when WomensNet was launched. A project of the Southern African non- governmental organisation network (Sangonet) the website and training scheme has taken less than a year to hit the information superhighway. It was conceived in June last year when interested women got together to plan the […]
FRIDAY, 6.15PM: TRADING in the shares of Rand Merchant Bank, Southern Life Association, First National Bank Holdings and Momentum Life Holdings was suspended by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Friday at the request of the comapnies’ boards. The suspension came as discussions of a merger between Anglo American and RMB’s financial interests progressed. The various […]
Ferial Haffajee In your ear With radio booming, the number of independent production houses is growing to titillate the ears and provide quality local radio. One of them is Wola Nani, an Aids- support organisation that has also produced a series of programmes on different aspects of living positively with the HIV virus. Other non-governmental […]
Nigeria Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka visited South Africa for a writers’ festival in Durban. He spoke to Suzy Bell A distinguished man in black sips a cold Amstel in the retro lounge of the Blue Waters Hotel in Durban. He’s Wole Soyinka, acclaimed playwright, essayist, novelist and memoirist. He’s the quietly spoken winner of the […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM: SHARES on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange staged a late rally after a dull day on Friday, much to the consternation of dealers who were at a loss to explain the recovery. The all gold index slipped 2,1 points to 742,7. The industrial index rose 69,9 points to 8187,2, and the financial index, 103,3 […]
Dan Glaister in London He played a priest in True Confessions and the devil in Angel Heart, but these blasphemous associations did not stop the Vatican approaching Robert de Niro to ask him to contribute to a CD recording of the poems of Pope John Paul II. But now the invitation has been withdrawn. 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 […]
Andy Duffy, is truly muddle-headed. In his article “UWC debt collector’s deal”(February 13 to 19) he gets his story wrong in so many areas that I must wonder about his competence. Now for the facts: Professor Ikey van de Rheede was appointed as vice-rector (student affairs) by the broad-based process which the university adopted in […]
Njongonkulu Ndungane: UBUNTU When liberation came to South Africa in 1994, people rejoiced that at last there was freedom. Indeed, in the years just prior to the 1994 elections, we saw a surfeit of freedoms of expression that we had previously only known to exist in democracies like the United States. Not all these were […]