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/ 17 November 1995
THERE was a sense of deja vu as South Africa’s most litigated public servant, Winnie Mandela, failed to testify in her own defence this week. Mandela has frequently been unavailable when called on to face the consequences of legal proceedings. l President Nelson Mandela resorted to a supreme court order to serve a divorce summons […]
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/ 17 November 1995
Sol Kerzner has severed his links with his South African business just as a police investigation into alleged corruption draws to a close. Louise Flanagan reports UNTOUCHABLE Sun King Sol Kerzner withdrew from his South African company this week as an eight-year-long criminal investigation into allegations of corruption against him drew to a close. Kerzner […]
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/ 17 November 1995
CRICKET: Jon Swift For the South African players, playing against the English is a special experience, but beating them would be even better THERE is something very special about playing against England. South African opener Andrew Hudson is just one of the 11 men who face England in the current Test at Centurion Park who […]
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/ 17 November 1995
Professor Charles van Onselen, Wits University historian, in THE MARK GEVISSER PROFILE PERHAPS the problem Charles van Onselen has, I think as we sit together on a Sunday afternoon, is that he looks — ; and sometimes sounds — like the enemy: bulging eyes beneath a balding pate, ware-ding khaki shorts, blustering physicality, bombast and […]
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/ 17 November 1995
The faces of 1996: This week and next, we speak to the four new recipients of the Standard Bank’s Young Artist Awards DANCE: Itumeleng oa Mahabane SOUTH Africa’s “current wonderboy of contemporary African choreography”, Vincent Mantsoe, is sitting patiently, fingering his bead necklace, in the lobby of the Braamfontein Recreation Centre, where the Moving into […]
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/ 17 November 1995
Ann Eveleth reports on the bizarre trial of KwaZulu-Natal rightwingers accused of a fantastic plot to take control of the province THE white right wing wanted a volkstaat. The Inkatha Freedom Party wanted a Zulu kingdom. Pat Hlongwane wanted explosives. And the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging wanted to wipe out African National Congress township strongholds in KwaZulu-Natal. […]
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/ 17 November 1995
CINEMA: Andrew Worsdale PAUL VERHOEVEN and Joe Eszterhas’ latest collaboration, Showgirls, is at once the tackiest movie ever made by a major Hollywood studio and a satisfyingly bitchy backstage melodrama overlaid with all the usual sexual peccadillos common to both men’s previous work. Verhoeven’s first major hit was the Dutch art film The Fourth Man, […]
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/ 17 November 1995
Jan Taljaard IF attendance figures at the Pretoria City Hall are an indication, then the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging is making a comeback in Gauteng. On Monday night AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche claimed the biggest crowd to attend a political meeting at the hall during the past two years. After being devastated by events before the 1994 […]
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/ 17 November 1995
A LETTER written by one of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s lawyers to Nelson Mandela says it all: “Were quiet diplomacy pursued in South Africa … I doubt you would be alive today.” Our humiliation at Friday’s executions in Nigeria is complete. The question facing South Africa now is how to proceed. We have snubbed the Nigerian national […]
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/ 17 November 1995
TELEVISION: Hazel Friedman THERE’S an old Greek saying which, roughly translated, goes: “If the cake rises, who do you thank? The recipe or the cook?” Director Gray Hofmeyr used to have the answer to that one. After all, he was the chef who propelled Greek cooking into The Big Time with his acclaimed television series. […]