NOT for the first time the name of Swanieville evokes horror and revulsion. Five years ago, a Zulu impi cut a bloody swathe through the squatter camp, attacking alleged African National Congress supporters, in full view of the police. The police were again on the scene this week as schoolchildren were bussed in to exact […]
Despite criticism of Gear, the strategy is on target and the country should tough it out, Maria Ramos tells Madeleine Wackernagel DIRECTOR General of Finance Maria Ramos believes Gear is right on track. “Well she would, wouldn’t she,” was one cynical response, but to hear her tell it, the government’s growth, employment and redistribution strategy […]
Krisjan Lemmer Sorry, wrong number THE Alberton Magistrate’s Court this week hosted an inquest into a sterling example of South African detective work. On July 5 1994, a family from the Transkei were cruising along the Old Vereeniging Road in their white Toyota bakkie when they were pulled over by the police. Minutes after being […]
DOCUMENTA X: Brenda Atkinson and Ian Traynor SPURRED by the conviction that “art alone is not enough” and jeered at and reviled by critics, the uncompromising French curator Catherine David last week unveiled the world’s biggest contemporary art exhibition. A meandering network of venues in the central German city of Kassel is the setting for […]
Venus Williams, the supercool prodigy who made her Wimbledon debut this week, may be the star but her father calls the shots. That’s all right though – he’s not one of those tennis parents-from-hell TENNIS:Richard Williams OKAY, Venus Williams thought, yawning on the inside. Let’s deal with it. “Know what?” she said to the dozen […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM THE Independent Broadcasting Authority will allow pay station M-Net to keep its free-viewing window, in a decision likely to upset the national SA Broadcasting Corporation and bidders for the free-to-air TV license on offer later this year. The SABC and other bidders had registered strong objections to M-Net’s maintaining the hour-a-day free-viewing window […]
MUSIC VIDEO: Nathan Zeno LIKE Tom Waits on ecstasy, they unfold on to the stage, horns blaring. Smiling and nervous, a matric dance band with one size too big trousers: The Honeymoon Suites. They showed us who they were last weekend by playing two gigs with several of Cape Town’s top rock acts. At the […]
Angella Johnson speaks to Swanieville residents about the stoning of a councillor this week IT was a scene reminiscent of biblical times, or the township violence of the 1980s. Three bus-loads of schoolchildren marched on the shack of a local African National Congress councillor in Swanieville squatter camp on the West Rand, fire-bombed his house […]
apartheid’s mad scientists From boerbuls to sjamboks to Sasol, scientists in the old regime even considered turning white South Africans into blacks Mungo Soggot and Eddie Koch WHERE else but South Africa would dog fanatics successfully cross-breed a Rottweiler, a Dobermann and a bloodhound? Or enthusiastically market a dog called a boerbul – an 80kg […]
Ann Eveleth THE Cape Town school whose legal action is threatening to derail Minister of Education Sibusiso Bengu’s teacher redeployment policy is popular among members of the provincial Cabinet and even Bengu’s own officials. Grove Primary is well-known for its patronage by the province’s political elite: African National Congress MECs Lerumo Kalako and Leonard Ramatlakane […]