Justin Pearce The self-appointed management team of Vista University — led by Armscor director Leon Bartell — is accused of stashing millions of rands of university funds to be used in case some of its staff are “chased off” campus. The university, originally the brainchild of Dr Andries Treurnicht, is now battling to transform itself […]
Alfred Nzo’s ministry stands accused of not having made the leap into the new South Africa, reports Rehana Rossouw Minister Alfred Nzo and his Department of Foreign Affairs came in for a barrage of criticism this week from the ANC alliance and academics who charged that it had failed to provide the moral leadership the […]
THEATRE: David Le Page PSYCHODELIC Cowboy and Sister Nun is an axe-packing, bloodstirring hour of original music from a band of wild riding East Rand cowboys that would have most audiences on their feet were it not for the chains of propriety at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre. Their rock’n’roll is combined with a story that […]
David Campese, the world’s great non-conformist, is facing up to a giant-sized challenge RUGBY: Mick Cleary ON THE horizon the cloud of dust tells of the stampede heading his way. Up above the birds are circling, ready to pick off the carcass. As he has always done, David Campese merely watches and waits. The young […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin JAMES LEVEN’S film Don Juan de Marco offers a refreshingly different viewpoint of a patient/psychiatrist relationship to the grim one taken by Peter Shaffer in Equus. Almost perversely, Leven eschews reality and opts for fantasy. In the course of 10 days, the patient Johnny/Juan not only transforms, with wonderfully serpentine subtlety, his […]
Displaced South African Andrew Dosunmu — fashion stylist and music video director — is hot property in New York. He spoke to Tony Karon ANDREW DOSUNMU is pacing around his sparse studio apartment in Manhattan’s fashion district, anxious for feedback on his directorial debut music video. There is no furniture beyond the functional — a […]
Pat Sidley Trainee teachers at the mainly black Colleges of Education throughout the country are seething over the textbooks they are required to study. The books, condemned as “paranoid drivel”, are just one of a number of issues that are intensifying the growing crisis in teacher training. A conference of college of education rectors met […]
Rehana Rossouw DRAFT legislation spelling out the powers of the Gender Equity Commission has been prepared by the Department of Justice, giving the body the same teeth as the Human Rights Commission to perform its tasks of ensuring gender equity in Parliament and society. The Parliamentary Commission on Gender Equity met on Wednesday to grapple […]
Eddie Koch ARMSCOR officials involved in the arms-for-Yemen scandal are offering British defence experts massive fees to give evidence on behalf of the armaments corporation at a Cameron Commission inquiry into South Africa’s arms trade policy. An Armscor team has just returned from an all-expenses- paid trip to England during which a number of prominent […]
South Africa comes packaged to please at La Villette music festival. HAZEL FRIEDMAN reports from Paris LA VILLETTE is one of those curious cultural monuments that straddle the multiple personalities of Paris. Established during the mid-1980s, it has served as a sort of secular cathedral, injecting a modern multi- cultural spirit into a drab, immigrant […]