The skirmish for Wits University’s top job continues, writes Philippa Garson THE students and academics who rallied behind Professor William Malegapuru Makgoba in his recent skirmish in Wits University’s corridors of power have turned against him and don’t want him to lead the institution. As speculation around contenders for the university’s top job grows, it […]
Vic Marks shares the middle with the well-rounded Devonian who is the natural successor to Dickie Bird as the best and most recognisable umpire in the world WHILE Dickie Bird was wallowing and weeping amid all the attention that enveloped him prior to his final Test, David Shepherd, his successor as the most recognisable umpire […]
The labour movement is battling with the dilemma of remaining loyal to the ANC or taking action to force economic change. Gaye Davis and Justin Pearce report WHILE Cosatu this week claimed the banks’ climb-down over interest rates as a victory, the finance institutions knocked the wind from the sails of an attempt by the […]
With the South African media industry transforming, a new class of media players is emerging. Jacquie Golding-Duffy reports on the most prominent among them An eminent group of media moguls is waiting in the wings as the South African media industry goes through a series of ownership changes. The most prominent among them is New […]
<B>CINEMA: </B>Country Life
Clint Eastwood talked to Derek Malcolm in London about a career which has taken him from toughie to softie with Oscars in between.
<B>CINEMA: </B> Braveheart
Mark Behr ‘I BOUGHT this huge tree to plant by the front wall,” a colleague says with a laugh: “I couldn’t get the hole deep enough so I walked across the road to where that white beggar always hangs around at the supermarket. I offered him R20 to dig the hole. He agreed and I […]
CINEMA This year’s FNB Vita Art Now Awards were strengthened by being selective rather than widely inclusive, writes HAZEL FRIEDMAN. BABBIAGE” is the French word for a babble of noise, in which one voice is indistinguishable from another and sense is subsumed in a barrage of sound. If you looked for a visual equivalent, you […]
CINEMA Reviewed by: Derek Malcolm FEW opening films at the London Film Festival have caused such consternation as Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days. Yet, on the evidence of this futuristic epic (as well as Blue Steel and the highly successful Point Break), Bigelow is clearly one of the most proficient practitioners of pyrotechnical in-your-face film-making working […]