Performance art is internal and intrusive – it is like surgery without anaesthetic. Static visual art is like an anaesthetic without surgery … – Steven Cohen Peet Pienaar, he of the oke-ish good looks and rugby-inspired aesthetics, doesn’t really want to talk to me. He’s had enough of interviews, he wants to stop explaining what […]

ONE of the last bastions of Johannesburg’s business elite, the Rand Club, is considering joining the exodus of business to the suburbs. The club has been in Loveday Street in central Johannesburg since its founding in 1887. Since then it has been the favoured watering hole of the city’s captains of industry. However, in a […]

European negotiators to give President Nelson Mandela a farewell present before he steps down.

Howard Barrell Musical chairs continued in Parliament this week when two more opposition politicians – Patrick McKenzie of the New National Party and Bukelwa Mbulawa of the Democratic Party – joined the African National Congress. Mbulawa’s defection is a blow to the DP. But McKenzie’s change of loyalties came as no surprise. The Mail & […]

John Matshikiza:WITH THE LID OFF ‘To the untrained eye,” says Achmat, ”these dogs might look a bit lacksy-daisy.” ”A bit what?” I say. ”Yes, they might look a bit lacksy-daisy now, in broad daylight, to you, because you don’t know them,” Achmat says, ”but at night their ears go back flat on their heads, and […]

Aaron Nicodemus Nugget Park, a small dirt square at the corner of Nugget and Saratoga streets, has become a battleground in Johannesburg’s war on homelessness. Every so often – there’s no predicting when, homeless people say – an unmarked car or van will pull up to Nugget Park, men in street clothes will get out […]

KWAZULU-NATAL manufacturer Thor Chemicals SA is demanding an apology from African National Congress MP and environment portfolio committee chairperson Gwen Mahlangu for comments she made about during an SAfm radio interview this month. Mahlangu is alleged to have said that people are “dying every day” in Cato Ridge and that Thor is the only employer […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Thursday 1.50pm. BOB WOOLMER, who quit as South Africa’s cricket coach last weekend, says he is tempted by the prospect of taking charge of England in place of David Lloyd. However, Woolmer said on Wednesday he has not been approach by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as they search […]

MOZAMBIQUE’s second multiparty general elections, due in October, may be postponed to early 2000 because preparations are behind schedule, a government official said on Thursday. “The elections will have to be postponed unless the National Elections Commission (CNE) manages to squeeze the entire electoral timetable,” said minister of state administration, Afredo Gamito. The CNE should […]

FAILURE to meet export requirements, declining demand for locally produced goods and interference from the labour movement have forced some companies to withdraw from Namibia’s Walvis Bay Export Processing Zone (EPZ), an economic watch group says. This is taking place barely three years after Namibia’s EPZ plans got off the ground. In its quarterly review […]