Yearly Archives: 1994

Lesley Cowling THE state is obliged to pay a substantial portion of the costs of General Lothar Neethling’s litigation against the Weekly Mail and Vrye Weekblad as a result of this week’s Appeal Court judgment. Neethling sued the newspapers for defamation in 1989, lost the case in the supreme court and won on appeal in […]

Dogtroep kick off their performances at Arts Alive tomorrow night. Neil Wallace gives an idea of what to expect HOLLAND’S Dogtroep, a group of performers, musicians, sculptors and technicians specialising in bizarre performance events, work both indoors and out. The snow spectacle commissioned for the 1992 Winter Olympics confirmed them as one of Europe’s most […]

Currie Cup final: Vital roles for Herbert and Le Roux, two pivots with contrasting styles RUGBY: Jon Swift IN THIS weekend’s final throw of the Currie Cup dice in an intriguing season where they have not always fallen in a predictable fashion, one of the oldest arguments in the game of rugby comes under the […]

Gwen Ansell pays tribute to late great South African percussionist Makhaya Mahlangu MAKHAYA MAHLANGU is no more. The 42-year-old percussionist died in his sleep in the early hours of Monday morning. “Makhaya was a person who’d gone through many things in his life: poverty, oppression from the system. Yet he became one of the greats […]

A little-noted post-election building boom provides valuable lessons for the recovery of our injured economy, writes Terence Moll ‘IF you’re a small builder and aren’t working every day,” the salesman said, “then you must be either lazy or fast asleep.” He should know: he works for a firm which sells precision saws, drills and concrete-cutting […]

Drew Forrest THE number of shack dwellers in the Johannesburg municipal area has trebled in the past year, and the first shacks are starting to rise on golfcourses and parkland in the city. A year ago, according to Johannesburg’s director of urbanisation, Cedric de Beer, there were 2 000 shacks in the city housing 8 […]

Two transvestites, a stripper and a urologist’s secretary were interviewed live on stage last week. Michael Dresden was there CHARLES J FOURIE, the award-winning Afrikaans fringe-close-to-centre playwright and sometime director, is the ringleader of an extraordinary new series of shows at Cape Town’s Long Street Theatre. The format is a live interview, on stage, and […]

MEDIA AND MARKETING CLIVE SIMKINS ‘DESPITE equality, wage parity and liberation, women still can’t: start barbecue fires, hook up a stereo, shine shoes, do anything on a roof, hang a picture, investigate mysterious house noises at night, kill and dispose of large insects, walk past a mirror without stopping to look.” — National Lampoon 1979. […]

Next week’s Constitutional Court selection won’t provide much scandal, writes Lesley Cowling. But will this compromise its transparency? TWENTY-FIVE candidates for the Constitutional Court will be interviewed in the Civic’s Tesson Theatre next week, but it is unlikely that the hearings will contain the stuff of drama. Albie Sachs, director of the Constitutional Studies Centre […]

An Angolan intelligence chief alleges South Africans are still involved in covert support of rebel movement Unita. By Stefaans Brummer South African companies continue to supply Angolan rebel movement Unita with military equipment in contravention of a United Nations ban and South African government policy, claims the Angolan intelligence service. Angolan government armed forces intelligence […]