Ann Eveleth THE University of Zululand campus became a war zone this week as police and students clashed following the alleged rape of a female student in a campus residence last Saturday. Campus security fired teargas canisters on Tuesday to disperse students demanding the immediate suspension of Jabulani Msweli, the campus security guard charged with […]
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has warned the ANC of further repercussions concerning its involvement with Sol Kerzner. Gaye Davis reports AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS Women’s League president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has warned the ANC of “further bruising” concerning Sol Kerzner’s relationship with the organisation in a letter to Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. Axed deputy minister of environment affairs Bantu […]
THEATRE: Charl Blignaut IT wasn’t the lingering threat of a neurotic, gun- toting woman trying to claw the truth from a terrified fascist she’d tied to a chair for 24 hours that had me rattled as I left the Windybrow Centre for the Arts the other night. It wasn’t even the sinking realisation that there […]
Discriminatory pension laws that exclude permanent residents may compromise their human rights, reports Marion Edmunds Permanent residents no longer qualify for state pensions or social assistance grants, following the implementation on March 1 of the Social Assistance Act, drafted and passed by the National Party government. And the Black Sash says it will take this […]
Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco is hot property. ADRIAN SEARLE test drives his new show at the ICA in London THERE is a lift stalled in the middle of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London’s upper gallery. The light is on inside and the doors are open: Going Up? But wait, there’s something wrong here. […]
Ann Eveleth Western Cape National Party leader Dawie de Villiers has been tipped for an ambassadorship, along with Inkatha Freedom Party MP Lionel Mtshali, in a new round of appointments expected also to include the Pan Africanist Congress. De Villiers’ imminent appointment comes hot on the heels of former NP parliamentary deputy speaker Bhadra Ranchod’s […]
A leading member of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) claims his organisation has been sidetracked by militant activists and fears it will falter in the coming weeks. The member, who asked not to be named but who said he intended raising his misgivings within the organisation, said unless Pagad reverted to its original form […]
Lynda Loxton As the rand continues its shaky path and investor perceptions remain wary about the ability of the government to deliver on its ambitious macroeconomic plan, government officials are quietly and determinedly working to ensure that stringent budget-cutting targets are met. Whether the political implications will still upset the applecart remains to be seen, […]
When pressed, Kate Turkington, the sensitive host of Radio 702’s Believe It Or Not, admits she does have some beliefs of her own, writes KAREN DAVIS SUBTITLED The Way You Choose to Live Your Life, Kate Turkington’s radio show, Believe It Or Not, turned three last Sunday night. Its territory is a potential minefield of […]
Madeleine Wackernagel In trying to bring the public service up to speed, the government has made a Faustian pact that could backfire, says one senior official in the Gauteng administration. “Only once we ran the statistics did we realise the scale of the problem. We need more money to keep the better people, which means […]
Judith Matloff in Lusaka Zambia’s stringent austerity measures have helped create a crisis in the sexual exploitation of children, with high numbers of under-age prostitutes roaming the streets, child advocacy groups say. The groups, taking stock for an international conference on the sexual exploitation of children this month in Sweden, said that the combination of […]
When a UK union official was refused entry to South Africa, the Home Affairs Ministry had to take a fresh look at its inherited `stoplist’, writes Stefaans BrUmmer THE Department of Home Affairs still maintains a blacklist of “undesirable” visitors to South Africa — currently about 3 000 people. Now Deputy Minister Lindiwe Sisulu wants […]
Overseas acts provide all the excitement at next month’s Arts Alive festival, writes GWEN ANSELL BOLD and brassy Cuban ensemble Irakere will terrify the storks and electrify the dancers at Johannesburg’s Zoo Lake on September 8, as they kick off the popular music programme of this year’s Arts Alive Festival. Irakere, founded and led by […]
Trade Minister Alec Erwin believes fast-tracking tariff cuts is in the best interests of industry as a whole. Lynda Loxton reports Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin this week tried to dispel allegations that the government was placing sensitive industries — and jobs — in jeopardy by fast-tracking tariff cuts. Briefing the parliamentary trade and […]
Elliot Josephs talks to Rehana Rossouw about his struggle to launch a satirical magazine A CAPE Town author and artist is bringing a legal claim for damages against the Argus, owned by Independent Newspapers, after it refused to print his satirical magazine. Elliot Josephs, who describes himself as an “artist- cum-entrepreneur”, says his right to […]
Marion Edmunds and Stuart Hess THE government is going to battle to reduce the public service to meet its stated targets over the next three years, and to cut the enormous wage bill generated by its many employees. Senior sources in the Finance Department say it is accepted that targets are over-ambitious, and that the […]
Mark Tran in New York Apple Computer, wallowing in red ink, has been quietly receiving help from an unexpected quarter – — arch-rival Microsoft. The software market leader has been helping small software companies write Internet programs for Apple, an effort that will cost it millions of dollars. But Microsoft chairman Bill Gates believes that […]
Journalists covering Pagad’s campaign against gangsters have found themselves staring down the barrels of guns, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy Journalists are once again being targeted, as the war in the Cape Flats continues between the Muslim community group, People against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) and gangs. In the 12 days following the shooting and torching of […]
They’re rude, independent — and raking in the cash. ANDREW WORSDALE on this week’s releases, Mallrats and Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead AMERICAN movie-goers — the most lucrative audience in the world — are finally giving the thumbs-down to the thoughtless, cliched hype dished out by Hollywood. Instead, they’re looking to the […]
The centrespread in the first, and possibly last, issue of Elliot Josephs’s magazine Hei Voetsek! is of what some may see as “a typical Cape Flats male” — reclining on a couch in his underwear reading a pornographic magazine, his toothless face wreathed with smoke, a glass clutched in one hand and a flagon of […]
Deep in Angola, men mine illegally — and dangerously — from diamond-rich riverbeds. John Liebenberg reports `BEWARE the devil in the diamond,” smiles the Zairean, Flavia. He rolls the sparkling two-carat oval stone in his palm. He was a teacher for many years until a visit to his brother, also a miner, two years ago. […]
In comparison to the sums being paid for other players in the Premier League, Manchester United really got a bargain when they paid 3,6-million for the exciting Karel Poborsky SOCCER: Michael Walker IT WAS a grey, uninviting Monday morning in June but international reporters were still sparring for position on the front steps of the […]
Beeld’s new editor, Johan de Wet, will not bow to politics, but claims he will be led by the news, writes Jacquie Golding-Duffy He is not arrogant, but soft-spoken, seemingly quite laid-back. As a senior managing director from a rival publishing house put it: “He was never a gutsy type of journalist; nor is he […]
BRITAIN is not the only country wringing its hands over its performance at the Olympics. The Kenyan government plans to set up an independent commission to determine why its athletes won only one gold medal in Atlanta, the worst return since 1984. “We must go back to the drawing board and find the root cause […]
Susannah Frankel The fashion world is buzzing with rumours that Vivienne Westwood — Queen of Punk, grande dame of British fashion and the woman most famous for parading knickerless around Buckingham Palace — looks set to take over at Christian Dior, France’s oldest couture house. Since Gianfranco Ferre announced his departure in July, speculation has […]
Mail & Guardian Reporter IN the wake of Desmond Tutu’s call for apartheid judges to come clean, the search for dubious judgments has unearthed an extraordinary case involving a clerk articled to Nelson Mandela and the late Oliver Tambo. The clerk was charged with contempt of court after sitting in the white lawyers’ seats in […]
At one level it is possible to sympathise with Trevor Manuel with regard to his support for the All Blacks over the Springboks. If there is a game that conjures up the bad old days of apartheid it is rugby, a sport that tends to attract the passions of the sort of people (among others) […]
Paul Adams came on to the scene with a bang last year, but he has not been so explosive in England CRICKET: Barney Spender A YEAR ago the South African schools’ team was touring England. At home, left to rue the selectors’ decision that he was little more than a circus act, was Paul Adams. […]
Mungo Soggot SASOL, the synthetic fuel giant, this week took a regional magistrate to court for ordering it to hand to an inquest documents relating to a mining accident in 1993 which killed 53 workers. The magistrate, Mike Jungbluth, presided over the inquest which started in 1993 and was frozen pending the outcome of this […]
Alexander Sudheim A WELCOME change of location from the formal feel of last year’s event at the Natal Playhouse, the BAT Centre in Durban proved an inspired choice for the 1996 JPS Jazz Festival. At least 1 000 people visited on each of the three days to take in the likes of Bayete, Johnny Fourie, […]
Political manoeuvring among ministers has been behind the delay in appointing privatisation advisers, writes Mungo Soggot Now that the government has finally named its privatisation adviser, it transpires that the endless delays over the appointment stemmed in part from a political struggle over who will control restructuring and privatisation. The outcome of the battle appears […]
Gaye Davis A group of African National Congress women MPs have launched an eleventh-hour bid to return South Africa to the calvinistic days of star-covered nipples and black tape over salacious text. They are bidding to turn back the clock on the passage of the Film and Publications Bill, believing it is too soft on […]