Time magazine’s cover story on cyberporn has become the=20 centrefold of a raging row over its ethics and=20 accuracy, reports Bruce Cohen Accused of falling for a hoax of Hitler Diary =20 proportions, Time’s story is fuelling the growing=20 debate in the United States over censorship of on-line=20 services. Its Cyberporn issue is being waved […]
Barney Simon, theatre director and writer, born April=20 13 1932; died June 30 1995. Friends and colleagues pay=20 # Lionel Abrahams THE last time I saw Barney Simon was in January this=20 year at the memorial function for the late Joe Slovo in=20 the Johannesburg City Hall. Among the many eulogies=20 from a rack of […]
Clive Simpkins FREE enterprise is posing problems as South African=20 sexuality creeps out of the closet.=20 The vague limbo of the present censorship regulations=20 has led to a plethora of skin magazines and videos=20 flooding the marketplace. In many instances this has=20 led to grave concern by parents whose children are=20 unwittingly exposed to adult […]
New Africa Investments chairman Nthato Motlana=20 has told South Africans to knuckle down to work to=20 convince investors that the country is a worthwhile=20 place to put their money, reports Karen Harverson New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) chairman Dr=20 Nthato Motlana has urged South Africans to stop toyi- toyiing and work to convince foreign investors […]
Without going into any details, Masa has apologised for=20 its past errors, reports Pat Sidley THE Medical Association of South Africa (Masa) last=20 week apologised, seemingly out of the blue, for its=20 attitude during the apartheid years. The apology has been a long time coming, and it did not=20 directly address the issues for which […]
Wits deputy vice-chancellor Professor MW Makgoba, in The Mark Gevisser Profile
The fiery bluster of right-wing farmers has given way=20 to a more pragmatic approach over the new labour=20 tenants’ Bill, reports Eddie Koch EDDIE von Maltitz swaggered around with a 9mm=20 parabellum strapped to his waist. The vierkleur,=20 pennant of the ultra-right, was flying at the entrance.=20 And murmurs of malcontent rumbled through the ranks […]
The RDP Appearance: Jelly-like. Difficult to get a grip on, but=20 easy to mould into anything you want. Not to be confused with: The Reach for a Dream Project.=20 The Reconstruction and Development Programme is also a=20 warehouse of our hopes, but it promises much more than=20 a trip to Disneyland or a Hot Air […]
NP leader FW de Klerk is expected to take a firm stand=20 to quell the dissension within his party. But it’s a=20 fine line he has to tread, reports Gaye Davis NATIONAL Party (NP) leader FW de Klerk is expected to=20 douse the firestorm raging in his riven party by=20 backing his beleagured senior cabinet […]
If the stars don’t play, the spectators won’t pay to=20 watch the games — and that means less money all round RUGBY: Jon Swift IT IS ironic that the flashpoint between the Transvaal=20 rugby players and the province’s management should come=20 in the middle of Wimbledon. For, at the root of the impasse between the […]
A Goldstone report urging action against police ‘dirty=20 tricks’ was never released by president FW de Klerk.=20 Stefaans Brummer and Eddie Koch report THE Mail & Guardian today publishes a secret Goldstone=20 Commission report, sent to former President FW de Klerk=20 weeks before the April 27 election, and which urged=20 immediate action to “neutralise” police […]
BALLET: Stanley Peskin I DO not wish to attribute any intentions to Veronica=20 Paeper and her version of Spartacus, but any real=20 interest her ballet has belongs more to the influence=20 of Cecil B de Mille than to either the Bolshoi=20 (strictly socialist realism) or Howard Fast (liberal=20 humanist). What Pact Ballet presents is Paeper […]
ATHLETICS: Julian Drew SOUTH AFRICA’S top middle distance athlete got a far=20 from ideal send off at Jan Smuts Airport last week when=20 he flew to Europe to begin his campaign in preparation=20 for August’s world championships in Sweden. Shadrack Hoff and his coach Kenny Bouwer were checking=20 in for their flight when the sister […]
Rehana Rossouw DURING the July parliamentary recess, when the nation’s=20 leaders flee from Cape Town to service their=20 constituencies or simply take a break, their seats in=20 parliament will be filled by the future leaders of=20 South Africa when the South African Youth Parliament=20 Organised by the Street Law project, the initiative is=20 bringing together […]
Patrick Goodenough in East London Former Transkei military strongman Bantu Holomisa took=20 a leaf out of the CIA’s book when he sent a military=20 signal to abduct a wanted man from Johannesburg in 1991=20 “like the Americans did with Noriega”. Holomisa effectively confirmed this week that=20 Vulindlela Mbotoli, the prisoner pardoned and released=20 on Monday […]
The labour ministry has brokered a compromise=20 on the stalled Labour Relations Bill,=20 report Eddie Koch and Marion Edmonds LABOUR Minister Tito Mboweni is set to break the=20 deadlock over the new Labour Relations Bill with a set=20 of compromises that have won broad support from=20 organised labour and also industry on flashpoint issues=20 which […]
Simon Segal finds South African service standards will=20 not cope with an Olympic influx of tourists THE Rugby World Cup (RWC) provided the first major=20 opportunity to rate South Africa’s service standards.=20 The result is less than spectacular. Sid Cohn, a consultant who teaches at the Wits Business=20 School, surveyed 400 local and 400 foreign […]
Sitting on a crate in a far corner behind the shelves,=20 a Drum magazine in his hand, Mabutho Dube looks like an=20 ordinary doorman as he buzzed customers in and out of=20 an emergency pharmacy in Rosettenville. The twenty-one-year-old, former Mofolo, Soweto, SDU=20 member is one of two Sibuyile security men hired after=20 armed robbers […]
Ann Eveleth Regarded as the Lion of Natal during his lifetime,=20 Harry Gwala was given the funeral of a political non- entity last Saturday. Earlier claims by the ANC leadership that 70 000 people=20 would attend rang hollow. Fewer than 20 000 people=20 attended, and the funeral was dominated by those who=20 had a deep-seated […]
Gaye Davis IN terms of workload and resources, South Africa’s=20 members of Parliament have to be among the most over- stretched and under-funded in the world. Management consultants hired by National Assembly=20 Speaker Frene Ginwala and Senate President Kobie=20 Coetsee, to recommend ways of re-organising support=20 services for Parliament, will be consulting MPs,=20 management staff […]
HERE are extracts from Goldstone’s report given to then=20 president FW De Klerksome weks before the April=20 Commisssion of Inquiry regarding the prevention of=20 public violence and intimidation. Report to the=20 International Investigation Team. 1. Introduction 1.1 In the first report dated 18 March 1994, the=20 Commission set out prima facie evidence of the=20 involvement […]
Business is seriously starting to turn its collective=20 mind to combating crime. Reg Rumney reports There is little disagreement that combating crime is=20 the top priority in South Africa today. Barely a day=20 goes by without one business leader or another=20 identifying crime as the greatest retardant of=20 investment and barrier to prosperity. South African […]
The products may not be warm or comfortable, but=20 Hardwear is finding a growing market for clothes made=20 of scrap. MALU VAN LEEUWEN reports AFTER four years of obscurity, the curious products of=20 a Cape Town partnership are suddenly getting plenty of=20 attention. Hardwear (real names Michelle Vyncke and=20 Chris du Toit) is a small […]
Trevor Steele-Taylor THE 17th Durban International Film Festival, which=20 opens its doors this Sunday, celebrates both the=20 centenary of world film and the anniversary of a=20 democratic South Africa. In line with the declining=20 state of local cinema, however, it is the international=20 arena which is better represented. Opening with Antonia Bird’s much praised Priest, […]
Producer and promoter David Marks will be ‘coming home’=20 when he takes the stage in Grahamstown. PETER RORVIK=20 THAT veteran mover and shaker of the South African=20 music industry, David Marks, trades backstage for=20 centre stage this month when he performs a collection=20 of his songs at the Grahamstown festival. Well known as a recorder, […]
Gavin Du Venage Johannesburg’s R6,5-billion budget passed earlier this week held few shocks for rate payers. However, business has been hit with an increase that could be as high as 30 percent, most of which will go to fund a huge deficit as a result of unpaid township debts. The first unitary budget to be […]
The Housewares Group has startled the investment community with its exceptional results, reports Jacques STORES-LISTED Housewares Group’s latest financial results took the investment community by complete surprise last week. While recent market focus lay in institutional and stockbrokers’ attempts at resurrecting investor interest in the 10-cent-a-share, debt-ridden W&A, little attention was directed at this company’s […]
It is possible to rehabilitate=20 criminals, rather than simply incarcerate them, reports=20 Rehana Rossouw Between the ages of eight and 16, a New Zealand girl=20 was repeatedly raped and sexually abused by three=20 brothers. When she was 24 years old, she reported the=20 crime to her Maori community.=20 The three men were summonsed, listened to […]
The World Bank’s aid for the world’s poorest countries is under attack. Reg Rumney reports The International Development Association (IDA), the arm of the World Bank which provides almost free loans to the poorest countries in the world, could be in trouble. The IDA provides concessional loans — typically 40 years repayment, no interest, and […]
Ann Eveleth Greater Durban Television (GDTV), South Africa’s first=20 regular community access television station, is up and=20 running, charting new waters in public broadcasting. GDTV is operating under a temporary licence granted to=20 a coalition of community-based video groups by the=20 Independent Broadcasting Authority. GDTV took to the airwaves last week with a range of=20 […]
Pat Sidley SOUTH AFRICAN wearers of disposable soft contact lenses=20 are at risk from a rare but devastating condition which=20 can lead to blindness. The condition is caused by an organism carried in water=20 (including tap water), dust or air, and it causes a=20 disorder called Acanthamoeba keratitis. Although uncommon, sufferers can go blind or […]
Stefaans BrUmmer DEPUTY President FW de Klerk this week distanced=20 himself from post-1990 security force “dirty tricks”=20 operations, while the ANC parliamentary study group on=20 safety and security said denials were to be expected. The tete-a-tete followed revelations in last week’s=20 Mail & Guardian by former police operative Paul Erasmus=20 of his involvement in the […]