FINE ART: Julia Teale DENISE PENFOLD and Margaret Chetwin have more in common than the title of their joint exhibition Common Objects. Both are MBA graduates from UCT’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts and both now teach at the Cape Technikon’s School of Design. And although the exhibition is not presented as an explicitly collaborative […]
DANCE: Suzy Bell THERE’s a development dance theatre company so hot, hip and happening that it’s already performed for President Mandela and Sonia Gandhi. Siwela Sonke is an eclectic, experimental dance company that melts together African, Indian and European dance heritage, creating a new rhythm we’ve all been waiting for. The vibrant, young dancers move […]
If Joel Stransky had known Springbok coach Andre Markgraaff was going to quit, maybe he would have stayed in South Africa, but now he’s found happiness and form in England RUGBY:Mick Cleary YOU gauge a man’s true fortune not by examining his bank balance but by peering into his soul. Last year, Joel Stransky, the […]
SOUTH AFRICA’s first national science and technology festival looks set to become an annual event after attracting about 15 000 visitors to a week-long programme of science-related activities in Grahamstown. Scifest ’97, which ended on Wednesday, also drew enthusiastic support from a range of science-related organisations and businesses, and even individuals. A lone professor from […]
NEWSPAPERS are to be used increasingly in South African classrooms to assist children to read critically and form their own judgments. The Newspaper Press Union (NPU) plans to co-operate with national educational planners to help ”school” a new generation of ”democratically minded South Africans”. NPU members are working in correlation with the Print Media In […]
Andrew Worsdale IN an impassioned oral presentation to the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), members of the newly formed Independent Producer’s Organisation discussed the viable options for a new “free-to-air” channel. The organisation responded to the IBA’s discussion paper on the channel, honing in on local content and independent production, programming contributions, language, employment equity and […]
gore Special writer Ruaridh Nicoll spends 12 hours in the hell halls of Baragwanath Hospital Friday 6.48pm T HE night-porter waits. Lounging in a wheelchair, he watches as the darkness begins to strangle the eve-ning’s flaring sun. At his feet, pools of water from earlier rain stand in the hollows while the tools of his […]
Documents found in the wrecked car of Internal Security head Leonard Radu led to the identification of two KwaZulu-Natal warlords as alleged agents, reports Ann Eveleth THE spy scandal which erupted this week also implicates Inkatha Freedom Party warlord David Ntombela. The Mail & Guardian has established that the evidence which led the African National […]
Potential bidders may think again before taking on SAA’s losses, now set to top R400-million, writes Ferial Haffajee SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS (SAA) may now be up for grabs, but potential bidders are likely to baulk at the extent of its losses – now tipped to top R400-million in 1996-97. The disappointing prognosis comes at a […]
Hazel Friedman ART will soon stop playing the role of Oliver Twist to the public and private sector’s Mr Beadle. This is the prophesy of Dr Chris Mann, convenor of what could well be a landmark international conference on the economic benefits of arts and culture in South Africa. A project of the Grahamstown Foundation […]