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/ 14 February 1997
From carpets to computers, the public register reveals what gifts MPs have received – or in some cases what they haven’t received. Rehana Rossouw reports ALMOST all the visitors to room V121 in Parliament this week were journalists eager to peek at the assets of South Africa’s elected leaders. If they were hoping for evidence […]
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/ 14 February 1997
Krisjan Lemmer Wear shades, the future’s so bright A South African man with a dream of a=20 bright future is about as scarce as a=20 politician driving a VW nowadays. Or so we=20 thought, until someone showed us a speech=20 made by the rector and vice-chancellor of=20 the University of Zululand, Professor CRM=20 Dlamini. What […]
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/ 14 February 1997
THE ANGELLA JOHNSON INTERVIEW PULEEZE, do not call Basil Douglas a “so- called coloured”. It pisses him off. Like the k-word does black folk. He is Coloured, with a capital C, and proud of it. Heck, he is even prepared to fight for the right to be called coloured. The man who organised last week’s […]
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/ 14 February 1997
Moses Taiwa Molelekwa is the new big name in SA progressive jazz. GWEN ANSELL talks to him about his new work THE club was small and crowded; the vibe intense. A foreign sax player of some repute had been teamed with a pick-up backing group of South Africans. At the break, a voice asked; “What […]
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/ 14 February 1997
Thomas W Lippman NEARLY six months after proposing with great fanfare to create an all-African military force to intervene in trouble spots, a chastened Clinton administration has revised the plan to meet African demands for more decision-making power and overcome French resistance. Since President Bill Clinton approved the original plan several crises have erupted in […]
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/ 14 February 1997
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 […]
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/ 14 February 1997
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 […]
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/ 14 February 1997
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 […]
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/ 14 February 1997
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 […]
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/ 14 February 1997
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 […]