Charl Blignaut Due to its logistic challenges and high cost, South Africa’s highly succesful “3D” Wonderbra advert has only appeared once in a limited run in Elle magazine. But that certainly hasn’t prevented the campaign from gaining the Johannesburg branch of ad vertising agency Hunt Lascaris TBWA multiple awards around the globe. So successful has […]

FRIDAY, 11.00AM: EDUCATION Minister Sibusiso Bengu won the right on Thursday to determine requirements for the appointment, transfer and promotion of teachers in government schools. With the passage of the Education Laws Amendment Bill, the minister made good on his threat to introduce legislation overturning the court victory of a Cape Town primary school, which […]

Angella Johnson The Commonwealth has endorsed its first economic charter committing the 54-nation body to free market principles, though its poorer members thwarted a call by richer countries for a full round of new world trade negotiations. President Nelson Mandela warned fellow heads of government at the four-day Edinburgh summit that stable democracies could not […]

Standing in the MuseumAfrica in Newtown, gazing at an extraordinary floor-plan built of bricks, I was briefly distracted by two authentic, dyed-in-the-tie hippies. Walking in their wake, my friends and I saw something on the floor. We picked it up. It was the biggest, fattest, most artfully rolled joint we had ever seen. We had […]

FRIDAY, 9.25AM: NATAL Rugby Union president Keith Pakinson believes he is the right man to step into Louis Luyt’s shoes as the next South African Ruby Football Union (Sarfu) president. Pakinson made a public statement ahead of Tuesday’s Sarfu election. saying: “We deparately need a national controlling body that serves in a fair and equitable […]

FRIDAY, 6.30PM: THE Truth Commission is to hold a special meeting on Monday to discuss the implications of claims by a witness (see below)that the commission’s own chief investigator was involved in a brutal attack on a Cape Town pub. “The holding of the meeting in no way questions the integrity or innocence of our […]

Mungo Soggot Parliamentary hearings confirmed this week that the only consensus between business, labour and government over the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill is that there is no consensus. Business South Africa (BSA) came in for a drubbing at the hearings as it battled to convince African National Congress MPs that the Bill would trigger […]

The Market Theatre turns 21 this year. We present 21 key moments in its proud history 1 On October 19 1976, the Market Theatre opens with Barney Simon’s production of Marat/Sade. (The former city market had been saved from demolition by its unique architectural features. Theatre people like Vanessa Cooke cheerfully dirtied their hands helping […]

V Roger Prabasarkar : Cricket South Africa’s series victory, sealed with an even more unlikely Test win in Faisalabad than was achieved against Australia in Sydney in 1994, made every tiny dispute, niggle, misunderstanding and irritation that had crept into the camp disappear in a spontaneous eruption of joy, relief and pride. When Allan Donald […]