CINEMA: Digby Ricci THAT acerbically brilliant novelist and essayist, Brigid Brophy, once titled an essay on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women: “A Masterpiece, and Dreadful”. The “dreadful” aspects, inevitably, provoke the most enjoyable and unabashed tears: Marmee’s long- suffering, instructive “storytelling” (“So they agreed to stop complaining, to enjoy the blessings already possessed”), Beth’s affectionate […]

Sam Sklair=20 LEE RITENOUR/LARRY CARLTON: Larry and Lee (GRP)=20 IF you are into contemporary jazz/fusion guitar playing,=20 you can’t do much better than this CD. It gets together two=20 of the most skilled and versatile players of this genre,=20 and it is almost impossible to decide which one is playing=20 solo at any time. Lee […]

It has been a turbulent year for tennis, but the future is looking brighter TENNIS: Jon Swift IN attempting a retrospective of a turbulent year for tennis in this country, it is more apposite to look ahead than behind. This is not to discount the notable successes achieved by Wayne Ferreira — twice winner over […]

M-Net is planning to unbundle MultiChoice. Jacques Magliolo=20 asks whether this move will benefit shareholders=20 Electronic Media Networks (M-Net) is once again warning=20 shareholders to trade their shares with caution.=20 M-Net is proposing to unbundle MultiChoice into two=20 separate entities and has returned to the market with=20 promises that the unbundling will benefit shareholders. In=20 […]

Ann Eveleth Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi has lost a significant battle in his bid to clean up the controversial KwaZulu Police force. Former Sundumbili station commander Major Owen Zama — the first of 14 officers Mufamadi ordered suspended last year — was acquitted on Friday on charges related to an alleged 1990 attempt […]

The African Development Bank meeting to elect a new=20 president turned into a ‘circus’. Kevin Rafferty in Abuja,=20 Nigeria, reports A meeting of governors of the African Development Bank=20 broke up in disarray in Abuja, Nigeria, this week after=20 failing to elect a new president.=20 The governors will meet again in the headquarters city of=20 […]

JAZZ pianist Moses Molelekwa admits to a degree of=20 schizophrenia. “Musically, I’ve always lived in two=20 worlds,” he says. “First, there’s the jazz world of home=20 and of the Fuba Academy where I trained. My grandfather was=20 a musician, although I never knew that — or him — until=20 just before his death in the […]

Karen MacGregor THE number of African students registered at South African universities has trebled in the last 10 years – – and for the first time ever, last year more students were African than any other race group — according to the recently released Race Relations Survey 1994/95. The growing representation of black people was […]

Last week, the Taiwanese ambassador to Pretoria was the only representative of the non-corporate world in a Mail & Guardian picture of the exclusive club of donors of R750 000 to President Nelson Mandela’s Children’s It is not unreasonable to assume that the ambassador’s generosity has something to do with the fact that his government […]

Jay Naidoo MENTION the “word” RDP and what’s the reaction? People look around for the bricks and houses. Where are the houses one year after? How many are there? Yes, ultimately, the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) is about putting roofs over people’s heads and food on the table. But before getting there, we need […]