Rehana Rossouw THE Department of Foreign Affairs has been blasted for=20 “embarrassing” South Africa by not affording diplomatic=20 recognition to fellow Organisation of African Unity=20 member, the Sahrawi Republic. African National Congress executive committee member=20 Jeremy Cronin, writing in the South African Communist=20 Party publication African Communist, gave two examples=20 of South Africa’s ambiguous relationship […]

THEATRE: David Le Page LARA FOOT has directed a rather noisy silent movie.=20 It’s called Womb Tide, and is masquerading as theatre=20 in the Laager at the Market, complete with a little=20 boer clown, an alternatively vulgar and sympathetic=20 heroine, and a properly precocious child. The filmic elements abound. Brian Webber plays a=20 congenitally awkward […]

M-Net should not hide its real results behind its=20 restructuring, argues Jacques Magliolo ELECTRONIC Media Networks (M-Net) produced poor results=20 for the third year running, and directors are hiding=20 behind the incomparability of financial statements.=20 The company’s preliminary report states: “Results for=20 the year ended March 31 1994 include businesses now=20 housed in MultiChoice and […]

Justin Pearce The South African Police Services are to face a court=20 challenge over the exclusion of people with HIV=20 infection from the force. Police unions and human=20 rights law organisations have filed papers in the=20 Transvaal Supreme Court arguing that SAPS policy of=20 pre-employment HIV testing is discriminatory in that it=20 excludes people with […]

Movable Feast ON a cold, wet and windy winter’s night, we drove along=20 a lane next to Cape Town’s Liesbeeck River and ran=20 through the rain into the shelter of the Wild Fig. We=20 closed the door to the elements and found ourselves=20 warmly welcomed (or was it congratulated?) for having=20 braved the night to […]

Most South Africans have sickened under one of the=20 world’s most skewed and inefficient health care=20 systems. It’s been in desperate need of major surgery,=20 and Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma is to be commended=20 for bringing an extensive, carefully constructed set of=20 proposals to the discussion table a little more than a=20 year after coming […]

FINE ART: Ivor Powell LET’S talk materials here. On the Newtown Galleries’=20 exhibition by Marc Edwards, Albert Munyai and Jeremy=20 Wafer is a piece titled Form .Evolved From a Force –=20 also described as “on loan from Barnett Auto Spares”.=20 Edwards’ work is the hideously mangled, shattered and=20 bloodstained wreckage of a car that has […]

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser IT was only with her last two encores, a hilarious=20 performance of Victor Herbert’s comic Art is Calling=20 for Me and a sweetly introspective rendition of a Maori=20 traditional song, that Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s recital=20 before an overjoyed Pretoria audience came to life. Not that there wasn’t much to admire […]

Durban’s fledgling centre for the arts is preparing to=20 fly, reports HUMPHREY TYLER MAYBE they should hire lifeguards for the official=20 opening in a few weeks of the Bat Centre beside the=20 water in the harbour in Durban. Vusisizwe Mchunu=20 (mostly known as Vusi), the centre’s project manager=20 and a prize-winning poet, shook his head […]

Zimbabwe is considering boycotts against the Pretoria=20 regime again — though for different reasons this time.=20 Iden Wetherell reports from Harare Should Zimbabwe impose sanctions on South Africa? More=20 than a year after democratic elections in the republic,=20 it may seem a strange suggestion — but Zimbabwean=20 manufacturers, expressing growing resentment that terms=20 of trade […]