Lack of funding is behind last week=D5s resignations at Pact, reports Barba= THE arts community cheered in May when the Minister of Arts and=20 Culture saved the Market Theatre with a R3-million grant. On Friday last=20 week, Pact=D5s chairman and chief executive officer resigned, and five head= of department announced they would follow. The events […]

THEATRE: David Le Page KARNAVAL, at the Johannesburg Civic, is a reminder that one of South=20 Africa=D5s great dramatic talents is hiding inside Evita Bezuidenhout. Twen= years old, it remains poignant and very funny. Though it was undoubtedly=20 more outrageous in its language, and politically provocative, in the=20 Seventies, the loss of those resonances serves […]

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 […]

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 […]

Neil Bierbaum Times Media Limited is to transfer its M-Net shares to holding company=20 Omni Media =D1 part of an empowerment scheme which will also free TML=20 to invest in electronic media. The planned transfer of the shares will also clear the way for Omni Media= unbundling. Inside sources claim that Omni shareholders are prepared […]

Philippa Garson WHAT would we do without the Sanlam babies? Most would agree that=20 the entertainment value of seeing children playing adults is greater than= that of seeing adults play themselves. Certainly Sanlam, churning out one baby ad after another, believes in the= success of using children to market adult products. Alternatively, using=20 adults to […]

Julian Drew NEXT week=D5s All Africa Games in Harare will be only the sixth edition of= this Pan African equivalentof the Olympic Games which were first staged=20 in the Congolese capital of Brazzaville in 1965, but although their entry= into the annals of sporting history is relatively recent, the idea behind t= is not. In […]

A =D4Save the Cape=D5 campaign is being instituted to defuse increasing ra= tension in the Western Cape, reports Rehana Rossouw Racial tension could explode in the Cape if nothing is done to reduce=20 antagonism between coloureds and Africans, religious leaders and=20 politicians warned this week. Rallying behind a call to =D2Save the Cape=D3, the Anglican […]

If centralism dominates the new Constitution, we will have wasted an=20 opportunity for grassroots empowerment, argues IFP MP Farouk Cassim IS THE most memorable epoch in the history of Africa about to be=20 witnessed with the finalisation of the Constitution of the new Republic of= South Africa? (The Second Republic?) Will our Constitution provide, in […]

Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings take issue with Eddie Webster=D5s=20 social democracy SOCIAL democrats must come out of the closet, says sociologist Eddie=20 Webster in a recent article (M&G August 18 to 24). Indeed they should.=20 But Webster=D5s vision of social democracy is an impoverished one. His=20 enthusiasm for the labour movement seems to have […]