Evita Bezuidenhout Appearance: Marike de Klerk on speed. Dress sense: Barbara Cartland on safari. All faux leopard-skin tights, diamonds and furs. Obviously a woman’s woman. Who are her role models? Sophia Loren, Joan Collins, Mimi Coertse and Dame Edna Anything that makes her special? She has the best legs. What’s she up to now? Burying […]

An innovative idea for small cinemas will bring the movies to the townships, writes Neil Bierbaum Ster-Moribo’s purchase this month of a 60-percent share in the Maxi Movies franchise operation has provided it with the growth it has been seeking among black audiences. Maxi Movies has a new concept for cinemas: a SuperVHS video system, […]

THEATRE: David Le Page REPRESENTING the agonies of a nation like Cambodia is a considerable challenge. It carries with it great responsibility, owed to the memory of the dead, but mostly to the living who must ensure that the 20th century’s dreadful pattern of mass annihilations does not continue into the next. Regretfully, it’s not […]

Meshack Mabogoane The National African Federated Chambers of Commerce (Nafcoc), the main black business organisation, which formed the African Bank and has been its main supporter, has spoken out on the bank’s difficulties. Nafcoc president Joe Hlongwane this week announced his organisation, whose members hold 35,3 percent of Afbank’s equity, is determined to get involved […]

FINE ART: Hazel Friedman IN his lyrical essay accompanying Jane Alexander’s exhibition (now at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg), Ivor Powell writes about the way technology has transformed life into an enhanced virtual-reality show. This has served, on the one hand, to blur the boundaries between self and simulated experience, evoking a more immediate, […]

Jack Rampou The SABC is competing with new community radio stations by providing regional language services countrywide. But community stations say they are not threatened and can compete effectively. SABC radio has created extra services for specific language groups by using transmitter splits in the different regions. For example, since July 3, both Radio Zulu […]

Cutting the costs of bad debt is high on the agenda of the telecommunication giant Telkom, reports Karen Telecommunications giant Telkom plans to implement a new strategy to stem the millions of rands lost each year through bad debt. Last year, the company wrote off 2,1 percent of its R9,6-billion turnover to bad debt — […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift CRICKET is big business. You only have to weigh the R5- million Standard Bank are going to pour into the one- day game over the five years from the start of the 1996-97 season to gauge that. The massive sponsorship will back the national team in all one-day internationals in this country […]

Marion Edmunds South African Broadcasting Corporation Radio Chief Govin Reddy is fighting shy of releasing a foreign consultant’s report critical of the way change has been managed at the SABC’s controversy-ridden English- language radio station SAfm. Reddy wants to keep an Australian-funded report, which criticises change management at SAfm over the last year, confidential until […]

A health and safety centre has been closed after one of its employees developed lung cancer, reports Eddie Koch A health and safety centre that has played a major role in highlighting the dangers of asbestos has been shut down by the government — because it failed to report that one of its workers was […]