CINEMA: Fabius Burger AT a recent Hollywood party, Jodie Foster jumped on Mel Gibson’s back and rode him like a horse — apparently their way of showing that Maverick, their upcoming western, will be politically correct. Women, no longer loving wives frying corn fritters back at the homestead, now also brandish the whip. But two […]
Labour tenants are fighting back after a wave of evictions, reports Vuyo Mvoko MBULAWA Mavimbela faces a terrible dilemma — either he loses his home or all the wealth he has accumulated in his 55 years: 27 cows and 54 sheep. Mavimbela, a “farm boy” since birth, is a labour tenant in the Piet Retief […]
Farouk Chothia THE IFP last weekend adopted a new constitution that attempts to put into practice what it preaches: the devolution of power along federal lines. It is similiar to a constitution the IFP adopted in 1990 — and never implemented. Power remained firmly in the hands of president Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Large sections of the […]
Both managements and unions will have to adapt to deal with the rising tide of worker militancy, writes Drew Forrest IT somehow seemed out of place in the brave new South Africa — a white manager of Pick ‘n Pay’s Southgate store held hostage by black strikers in his office, a sharpened broomstick at his […]
Dutch bassist Eric van der Westen keeps forging links with South African jazz. Now local musos can sample his technique at a series of workshops. Gwen Ansell reports `LAST time I left South Africa,” reflects Dutch jazz bassist Eric van der Westen over a heaped plate of Yeoville’s best bacon and eggs, “it took me […]
State security files obtained by the Mail & Guardian under the new Bill of Rights are empty or inaccurate — suggesting police have hidden or destroyed the information they collected during the 1980s. By Weekly Mail Reporter THE Mail & Guardian’s campaign to have the government release security information collected in the 1980s has revealed […]
SOUTH AFRICA’S R2-million effort to help Rwandan refugees — seven Air Force flights carrying 136 tons of food and medicine — was but a drop in the ocean. It was not even enough to sustain for a single day the 250 000 destitute Rwandans at the Tanzanian border town of Ngara, where most of the […]
My Life is unlike any of Athol Fugard’s other plays. With this workshopped production, he told Mark Gevisser, he, like this country, has started again FIVE teenage girls on stage, filled with adolescent hope and naivety, play out a parable for racial reconciliation simply by telling their stories. What on earth is Athol Fugard up […]
After being runner-up in the Open twice, Nick Price finally got his hands on the Claret Jug last weekend GOLF: Paul Martin THOUGH it’s flown trans-Atlantically with him, Nick Price still hardly ever puts his Claret Jug down. It overflowed with champagne on Sunday evening, causing a champion’s hangover, but on Monday after a three-hour […]
POLICE handling of the Pick ‘n Pay strike was true to classic South African police policy, “If in doubt, panic,” said a British academic specialist in criminal justice and member of the South African Police Services international training team. Mike Brogden also said the style of crowd dispersal used at Pick ‘n Pay stores indicated […]