Swiss director Daniel Schmid grew up in the family hotel =D1 now a=20 recurrent image in his films, writes TREVOR STEELE-TAYLOR =D4I WAS The American Friend,=D3 Swiss film director Daniel Schmid told us= over lunch in Johannesburg. =D2It was me that Bruno Ganz killed in the=20 subway.=D3 The film he referred to is Wim Wenders=D5 […]

Steuart Wright ALMOST 160 illegal squatters who received confused messages from=20 politicians including President Nelson Mandela about their future were=20 charged with contempt of court this week. The squatters, from Mandela and Slovo Parks outside Umtata, are accused=20 of defying a court order compelling them to leave their piece of prime land= In June they […]

Part museum, part holiday resort, Lesedi Cultural Village offers a =D4Real= African Experience=D5. JUSTIN PEARCE asks: What=D5s wrong with=20 THE American tourists are in traditional dress: golf shirts and polyester= slacks. Looking quietly excited and a touch apprehensive, they meet Xolani= Dludla, their guide, at the reception area of Lesedi Cultural Village and= follow him […]

Slam poetry is all about liberating the audience, discovered MALU VAN=20 LEEUWEN at its first hearing in Cape Town THE staid conventions of the poetry reading received their first warning of= a shake-up last week when slam poetry =D1 a concept imported from the=20 United States and Canada by two Cape Town enthusiasts =D1 was […]

Last week=D5s IBA report could lead to the closure of Bop Broadcasting=20 services, writes Neil Bierbaum Bop Broadcasting Corporation is to lose its television and radio services a= a result of the Independent Broadcasting Authority report. BopBC=D5s=20 television and radio services will be closed if the IBA=D5s recommendations= regarding the TBVC broadcasters are accepted by […]

Humphrey Tyler THERE is just a hint of appealing eccentricity about Funky=D5s restaurant i= the new Bat Centre at the side of the harbour in Durban. This is not just= because the waiters wear funny waistcoats. Maybe it=D5s because the buildin= is not quite finished. There are no balustrades on the steps you climb to […]

Gavin Du Venage THE Eastern Cape may lose another provincial minister after Health=20 Minister Dr Gertrude Thomas came under attack from within her own=20 party, the ANC, over the poor performance of her ministry. If she goes, Thomas will be the third Eastern Cape cabinet member to lose= her job since the establishment of the […]

Gaye Davis THE rumblings began almost as soon as the survey teams hit the=20 cobblestones in the Parliamentary precinct. It was, said Dr Mamphela Ramphele, director of Idasa=D5s Public Information= Centre (PIC), a historic opportunity for MPs and senators to prove they=20 were really as transparent and accessible to the electorate as they claimed= to […]

Shaun de Waal NEIL YOUNG: Mirror Ball (Warner Bros) ON this magnificent album, the godfather of grunge teams up with some of=20 his godchildren, namely Pearl Jam. Less eccentric than last year=D5s Sleeps= with Angels, this is deceptively simple rock=D5n=D5roll exactly as it shoul= d be=20 =D1 three-chord-wonders (one after another), tangled in Young=D5s wailing,= […]

Reg Rumney South African textile exports last year surged by around 31 percent,=20 compared to calendar 1993, to R1,5-billion. Nonetheless, as the Textile Federation=D5s August 1995 Textile Watch=20 comments, textile export statistics are a microcosm of what is wrong with= South Africa=D5s foreign trade. Textile exports remain mostly commodity- based and, therefore, vulnerable to volatile […]