Julia Grey SOUTH AFRICA can be counted among the top 10 countries worldwide in the field of space technology. But according to Dr Kelvin Kemm, a South African nuclear physicist, South African industry and politicians alike have a misconception of space technology as “fun and games entertainment” instead of “the absolute new frontier of profit”. […]
The Standard Bank National Arts Festival, held in Grahamstown, always generates a lot of controversy and differing opinions. Here are some Suzy Bell on Trevor Makhoba DURBAN artist, Trevor Makhoba, recipient of the 1996 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for the Visual Arts, has spoken out against the Standard Bank National Arts Festival committee. “They […]
IT is a piquant irony that in the week that the writing finally went up on the wall for the gold-mining industry, an influential agricultural think-tank began investigating the viability of hemp production in South Africa. Hemp is better known colloquially as dagga, and the mere idea that it could supplant gold as our chief […]
FENCING:Julian Drew NEXT week the first-ever world championships in an Olympic sport to take place in South Africa will be held in Cape Town when the World Fencing Championships are staged at a newly constructed venue in Culemborg. Just weeks before the 2004 Olympic Games decision in Lausanne it is important for Cape Town that […]
champion TENNIS:Richard Williams THE means were predictable, the method was not. The Wimbledon final was certainly won, as advertised, by Pete Sampras’s serve but not, in this instance, by the 208km/h fireballs that had reduced his opponents to cinders in the earlier rounds. In a match falling some way short of greatness Sampras demonstrated his […]
FRIDAY, 4.30PM DEPUTY Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad on Friday said that a decision on SA arms sales to Rwanda will be taken shortly. After meeting a Rwandan government delegation in Pretoria he told reporters this had been one of the issues under discussion. “We have been discussing this, but a decision will have to […]
THE former editor of Private Eye, Richard Ingrams, once said memorably that a libel suit is like a game of Russian roulette, the outcome being equally unpredictable. The financial magazine, Finance Week, has recently put a gun to the Mail & Guardian’s head and pulled the trigger. We are waiting anxiously to discover whether there […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM IN spite of a 19% increase in the manufacturing production index, the sector cut a further 14 000 jobs during the first quarter of this year, according to latest figures from the Central Statistical Service. The manufacturing sector has been in a squeeze for some time, and nearly 50 000 workers lost their […]
Gaye Davis SENIOR Human Rights Commission official Anne Routier has tendered her resignation following a blistering row with chair Barney Pityana. Routier, a National Party nominee to the commission who convenes its committee for policy and planning, and heads its Eastern Cape region, tendered her resignation with immediate effect in a letter to the secretary […]
Hazel Friedman NOSES have not yet been broken in the build- up to this year’s Johannesburg Biennale. But some might be put out of joint due to confusion over who is running South Africa’s second international art extravaganza, and over who will fund it. Officially, the man at the helm is the Nigerian-born New York-based […]