Leticia Muller is leaving Pact to join the Birmingham=20 Royal Ballet. Stanley Peskin mourns the loss of a rare=20 WHEN David Bintley came to Johannesburg to stage “Still=20 Life” at the Penguin Cafe for Pact Ballet in 1994,=20 there was considerable delight among ballet-lovers. The=20 choreographer of this poignant work had chosen to=20 oversee the […]
CRICKET: Jon Swift PERHAPS the terminally cynical would regard it as a=20 case of putting your marketing money where the mouth of=20 the consumer of the future is, but the R5-million=20 Bakers have put into mini-cricket is just the impetus=20 cricket development needs. The innovation of mini-cricket among the waist-high=20 members of this country’s community […]
As the Rugby World Cup reaches its peak this weekend,=20 Luke Alfred looks at a book which examines the=20 relationship between the sport and life in South Africa IN AUGUST 1992, a dark month for South Africa in=20 general and rugby in particular, a journalist from the=20 Sunday Star wrote: “It is hard to write […]
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 […]
Writing stories on the sex lives of presidents has become a dangerous occupation for Southern African journalists, writes David Lush Just last month, the publisher and two editors of Zimbabwe’s Financial Gazette were arrested, interrogated and charged with an offence which has hardly seen the light of day since the fall of Ian Smith’s Rhodesia […]
Despite the process of reconciliation, there are=20 obviously judges who are struggling to break out of the=20 old mould, writes Dennis Davis IT could surely not have been expected that there would=20 be unanimous enthusiasm for the decision by the=20 Constitutional Court that the death penalty was=20 unconstitutional. But for a sitting judge of the=20 […]
The Le Bourget Air Show in Paris is the meeting place=20 of governments, military men and high-tech innovation.=20 Stefaans Brummer attended this year’s show THE fashion this summer at Le Bourget, Paris: designer=20 suits, shades and cellphones, but very few skirts. The=20 Russians, of course, go for grimy anoraks, while the=20 South Africans stand the […]
1983: Anton Harber, junior reporter at the Rand Daily=20 Mail, receives a tip off that two strange people are=20 paying a black man to distribute anti-United Democratic=20 Front pamphlets outside Park Station in Johannesburg.=20 He is told to expect another rendezvous at 5pm that=20 Harber goes to the meeting place with a photographer.=20 The men […]
Rehana Rossouw People campaigning for the new South African Constitution to promote a Christian state are political opportunists trying to reinstate minority baasskap, said African National Congress MP Carl Niehaus this week . Niehaus — who has a theology degree — was responding to the recent march on Parliament by several thousand conservative Christains demanding […]
Kiri Te Kanawa is visiting South Africa at the height of her ability to draw crowds. Coenraad Visser reports IT was with a sense of relief that one greeted Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at her first encounter with the press shortly after her arrival in Johannesburg. She currently limits her public appearances to about 18 […]