Yearly Archives: 1997

With market sentiment on its side, now would be a good time for South Africa to act on exchange controls, a USeconomist tells Madeleine Wackernagel THE subject on everybody’s lips at this year’s Socit Gnrale Frankel Pollack investment conference was exchange controls. But the governor of the Reserve Bank wasn’t talking, and neither was the […]

Allison Daniels in Hollywood ACCORDING to the credits, he edited the movie Fargo. His work was so impressive he has been nominated for an academy award. So who is this Hollywood hotshot Roderick Jaynes? Well, actually he does not exist. Roderick Jaynes, it has emerged, is a pseudonym for the film’s director and producer, Joel […]

Die Burger and Beeld appear to have shifted their support away from the NP, reflecting a wider rift in the Afrikaner community. Gustav Thiel and Jacquie Golding-Duffy report IT has long been a truism that no National Party leader has survived an attack by Die Burger. As the editorial onslaught against former president and NP […]

THE ANGELLA JOHNSON INTERVIEW YOU just cannot keep Peter Soller out of the headlines. The lawyer who made legal history when he successfully represented unmarried father Lawrie Fraser has been in the news again this week; this time facing criminal charges after Fraser’s child was kidnapped from his adoptive parents in Malawi. Some people in […]

SWAPNA PRABHAKARAN saw the Bolshoi Ballet in action, and was not overawed IT was only to be expected that the rich and famous would swoop down onto the Civic Theatre to attend the premiere of the Bolshoi Ballet. And they were there early, decked out in their finery and guzzling gin and tonics before the […]

THEATRE: Andrew Wilson WHILE some of Athol Fugard’s later works, like A Place With the Pigs, are mark ed by claustrophobic symbolism and metaphor, his earlier plays like Hello and Goodbye and People Are Living There are finely textured examples of dirty real ism, where action and character are not slaves to ethereal philosophies or […]

Gwen Ansell NOSTALGIA and the recycling of old legends dominates the public face of South African jazz and audiences might be forgiven for fearing that’s all there is. But while we have, as yet, no coherent new jazz movement in this country, a ha ndful of players are striking out in fresh directions – there […]

Shaun de Waal HOMOSEXUALITY: A HISTORY by Colin Spencer (Fourth Estate, R69,95) TAKING on an almost ludicrously broad field, Colin Spencer whizzes through man ifestations of same-sex love from prehistory to the present day. His overviews of ancient societies and the Renaissance, particularly, are interesting and u seful, but he seems unsure of which theory […]

Chris Dunton SINGING AWAY THE HUNGER: STORIES OF A LIFE IN LESOTHO by Mpho M’atsepo Nthunya (University of Natal Press, R79) IN her foreword to this autobiography of a 66-year-old Mosotho woman who has ” little formal education, less privilege and almost no experience of books or w riting”, Ellen Kuzwayo comments: “One has a […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy THE government conceded this week that the Independent Broadcasting Authority’s (IBA) mandate for the SABC, central to plans to transform the broadcaster, is too expensive. The Telecommunications Ministry and the SABC said funding constraints and suggestions that the broadcaster become commercially self-sufficient had rendered many of the IBA’s recommendations impractical. The government has […]