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 […]

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 […]

Julian Drew IT is early morning in Johannesburg’s trendy suburb of=20 Yeoville. I venture into the street and am greeted by=20 three blond Swedish girls. “Can you tell me the way to the=20 Pink House?” they ask in chorus. “Just follow the yellow brick road,” I am tempted to say.=20 But this is no fairy […]

Age: Somewhere between angry young actor and “old fart” of South African political theatre. Claim to fame: Overcame parental prejudice that grown men should not appear in public and make fools of themselves to win a slew of acting awards including an American Tony for his Broadway performance in The Present occupation: Risking being labelled […]

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 […]

Angeline Oyog in Paris Industrialised nations may in the long term have more to=20 gain than lose from the rapid expansion of emerging=20 economies in certain developing countries, says the=20 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development=20 (OECD) in a new report. Looking at long-term economic interests, the report said=20 the industrialised OECD members should be […]

Eddie Koch The African National Congress this week released details about how members can bring charges against individuals in the movement accused of breaching the party’s code of conduct before its disciplinary According to a draft disciplinary procedure drawn up by the organisation’s national executive committee, charges can be “initiated for violations of the basic […]

Eddie Koch IN a bold move to clamp down on venality in public office, the African National Congress has decided its MPs must open their family assets and extra- parliamentary earnings to full public scrutiny. The dramatic decision — possibly a first for any political party in the world — coincides with efforts by the […]

1 Black Grape: It’s Great When You’re Straight … Yeah! (BMG) 2 Pulp: Different Class (Polygram) 3 James Phillips: Made in South Africa (Shifty/Tic Tic Bang) 4 Neil Young with Pearl Jam: Mirror Ball (Warner Bros) 5 Urban Creep: Sea Level (Shifty/Tic Tic Bang) 6 Boukman Eksperyans: Libte (Pran Pou Pran’l!) (Mango) 7 Gito Baloi: […]

Nicholas Lezard WHEN asked “Read any good books this year?”, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernires (Minerva) is the one that has most consistently sprung to mind. It is a story of the Italian occupation of Cephallonia in World War II — a conventional historical epic, it’s the kind of book you’d take on […]