Yes, you can find peace and quiet (and free babysitting) in Johannesburg – among the books at the city’s main library, writes Katy Bauer AT 7.30am, parking beneath the Library Gardens is easy to find. A highly missable single wooden door at one end of the garage allows for super-safe, almost covert access to Johannesburg’s […]
air Mungo Soggot FORMER Central Energy Fund chair Roy Pithey has swatted suggestions this week from Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs Penuell Maduna that the operation engaged in irregular accounting practices. Maduna told Parliament that the results of his investigation into the fund’s post-1992 operations would be handed over “soon”. The probe -which triggered […]
Gustav Thiel AN international human rights commission has accused the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of ignoring the role played by psychiatrists and psychologists in abusing human rights under the apartheid regime. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights said it had uncovered a “determined effort by the apartheid regime to use the field of mental health […]
Mungo Soggot THE African National Congress is hiring out its Cabinet ministers as guest speakers and MCs in a drive to swell the party’s coffers. Among the ministers available for such lucrative engagements are Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel and his colleague Minister of Trade and Industry Alec Erwin. Both are highly prized as guests […]
SOCCER:Andrew Muchineripi AS Manning Rangers bask in the glory of winning the inaugural Castle Premiership soccer championship, several key figures within the squad have continually created headlines. Coach Gordon Igesund has received due praise for moulding a team of virtual nonentities into one good enough to finish eight points clear of Kaizer Chiefs and 10 […]
Anne Eveleth DYNAMO Investments Chairman Oscar Dhlomo says he promised full editorial independence to staff at City Press – South Africa’s largest black weekly – before a consortium led by his company bought a controlling share of the newspaper from Naspers. The R110-million sale of 51% of the paper – to Dynamo, Ukhozi Investments and […]
account Marion Edmunds CONFUSION and administrative chaos have bedevilled the National Council of Provinces, the body which replaced the senate in February. The politicians and technocrats who dreamed the council up at constitutional negotiations have been trying to breathe life into it. In a bold move this week, the Cabinet endorsed an ambitious plan to […]
Stephen Gray attended the clannish celebration of writer, doctor and cook Louis Leipoldt in the Cedarberg area. On a warm winter West Coast long weekend … over an old Republic Day … ‘ Twas nostalgia all the way … the village churchbells chimed and rimed. Season to commemorate the folk poet with the jug ears […]
DOWN THE TUBE BOUNCING between programmes on Sunday night, the best viewing night of the week by far, one was stuck once again in that awful TV clash between Carte Blanche and 50/50. This time 50/50 won, because of a brilliant BBC/ABC programme on the crazy attitudes humans have to animals. There they all were […]
Sarah Boseley SUPERMODEL Naomi Campbell was recovering in the Canary Islands this week after reports of a suspected drug overdose, said to have been taken following a row with her lover, the flamenco dancer Joaquin Cortes. The reports were vigorously denied by a spokesman for Campbell. He claimed she had suffered an allergic reaction to […]