Right-wing political groups are trying to use a UN initiative to protect indigenous peoples for their own political ends, reports Eddie Koch A GROUP of boers, bushmen, basters and Zulu nationalists will make a bizarre set of bedfellows when they rally around the vierkleur, the pennant of the white right, at a conference this month […]

Evan Speechley may be a “glorified water boy”, but his job is a lot more important to the Springboks than that RUGBY: Luke Alfred THE sports physiotherapist’s role is overlooked by fans and journalists, yet the physio is surely one of the more crucial members of any team. In the case of Evan Speechley, physio […]

The ‘black empowerment purchase’ of JCI and Johnnic has=20 important implications, reports Reg Rumney The National Empowerment Consortium (NEC) is poised to buy=20 a big stake in Johnnic, the industrial firm that came out=20 of the unbundling of conglomerate Johannesburg Consolidated=20 The details of how the union and black-business-based=20 consortium intends pulling this off are […]

Trade unions are planning a major offensive against the new Labour Relations Bill, reports Eddie Koch ORGANISED labour flexed its muscles this week as talks between trade unions and employers over the new Labour Relations Bill headed for deadlock. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will hold an emergency executive meeting at the […]

Bafana Khumalo=20 Native Tongue=20 I should have let the son of a female dog be. I really=20 should have let him walk past me as I stood at the Civic=20 Theatre foyer trying to convince my dearly beloved that I=20 was the most important person in that theatre — that with=20 a flick of my […]

With the changing climate in local banking Jacques Magliolo looks at which banks are likely to come out tops South Africa’s four major banks have girded their loins to face a tough future as interest rate rises squeeze their margins. Brian Feldtman, banking analyst at stockbrokers EW Balderson, says that Amalgamated Banks of South Africa […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin BOTH Just Cause and Captives are set in prisons, one in London, the other in the Florida Everglades. In Just Cause, directed by Arne Glimcher, Paul Armstrong (Sean Connery), a retired lawyer, comes into a district that is insular and hostile to his cause, which is to investigate the murder and rape […]

The festival of theatre at the Market Lab this weekend opens windows into a range of communities. David le Page reports THE wealth of plays at the Market Laboratory’s Community Theatre Festival this weekend represents an outpouring of imaginative energy that could leave those whose only regular creative act is choosing a title at the […]

FINE ART: Ivor Powell THE Bag Factory studio complex in Fordsburg might one day serve as a parable of the new South Africa — a parable whose point is how unusual normality is in this curious country of ours. The Bag Factory has no real agendas. It provides studio space for professional artists, and just […]

ANDREW WORSDALE separates the intelligent and stylish from the Dumb and Dumbers in his best and worst of 1995’s movies IN a year dominated by Jim Carrey at the box- office — The Mask and Dumb and Dumber were the two top-grossing movies in South Africa, earning a combined income of R16,5-million — – there […]