making The Women’s Health Project is assisting in creating a greater understanding of gender- sensitive issues in the health fraternity, reports Barbara Ludman What has gender to do with health? Everything, if you’re a woman living in a rural area in a province with few resources. Everything, if you’re married to a man who won’t […]
Bridget Hilton-Barber: Unspoilt places Wepener is not a happening place. Lying beneath the square-jawed Jammerberg mountains near the Lesotho border, it has that prickly, uncomfortable sense of desperation specific to so many small Free State towns. It’s poor and polarised. Stinking hot in summer, bone-bitingly cold in winter, Wepener has all the reassuring charm of […]
FRIDAY, 4.30PM THE Congress of SA Trade Unions on Friday denied a lead report in the Mail & Guardian that the labour federation is considering establishing a new left-wing opposition party. “It’s wrong — they have written the biggest rubbish I have seen,” said Cosatu second deputy president Connie September. The M&G article was based […]
Hazel Friedman Art is art, media is media and marketing is marketing. These days the three always meet. And on August 10 at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg they will form a multi-media tripartite alliance in the service of cultural development. The grand occasion is an art auction co- organised by Linda Givon, who owns […]
Greg Bowes Ex-Sakhile drummer Mabi Thobejane has joined an array of local musicians who are finding increasing favour among the world’s techno elite. His legendary percussive expertise can be heard on Bible of Dreams, the new album by Britain’s premier trance act Juno Reactor (on Blue Room Recordings, released locally by Sony Music). The outfit, […]
India’s independence is under threat from corporate rule, reports Andrew Simms Namaste is the traditional Indian greeting, meaning “homage to you”. As India celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence, a different kind of respect is being paid – to the gods of global economic integration. And, as worship of this new idol grows, encouraged by […]
FRIDAY, 11.50AM: GAUTENG LIONS have made changes to the team that will play against Griquas in a Currie Cup fixture at Ellis Park stadium on Sunday. Louis van Rensburg has been drafted into the team. Armand du Preez replaces Wilnand Vlok and Joggie Engelbrecht will replace Joe Gillingham, who is doing duty for the Springboks. […]
FRIDAY, 2.30PM: THE Inkatha Freedom Party has suspended peace talks with the African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal, because of testimony to the truth commission this week about the “Caprivi 200” IFP trainees given paramilitary training by the SADF in the 1980s. IFP national chairman said the party’s provincial caucus had “withdrawn” the mandate of peace […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM TWO of the bidders shortlisted for a 100% stake in parastatal Sun Air have submitted offers for the airline, both of which are believed to fall well short of the R100-million government had hoped to raise by selling the airline. Public Enterprises Minister Stella Sigcau and Transport Minister Mac Maharaj on Thursday announced […]
Robin Denselow This was supposed to be the month in which Nigeria hit back and the Kuti family reconquered Europe. First came Femi Kuti, fired up after years of practice in his dad’s much-raided and much-celebrated Lagos club, The Shrine. He put on a startlingly good show in London, though the promoter was a little […]