THERE was a generation that fought a principled fight against apartheid and is easily forgotten in the rush to bury the past. Yusuf Cachalia, a defiance campaign leader of the 1950s and long-time victim of an extremely long and harsh house arrest, died this week, 20 years to the day since the death of Bram […]
The IMF has forecast a drop in South Africa’s growth rate=20 for this year, reports Reg Rumney International Monetary Fund economists have cut their=20 forecast for South Africa’s growth rate for the 1995=20 calendar year by half a percentage point because of=20 drought. This was revealed at a press seminar held in=20 Windhoek by the […]
Restaurants are just like the theatre, says Robert Colman,=20 whose latest play is all about eating. Matthew Krouse=20 AS a two-year work-in-progress reaches fruition, Robert=20 Colman — author and director of Afrodizzia, at the=20 Johannesburg Civic Theatre — reflects on the times and=20 traumas that formed his fantastical farce about food. The idea of setting […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin IN Mike Leigh’s Naked, a 27-year-old man comes from=20 Manchester to London. Claiming to be fascinated with all=20 things peripatetic, Johnny (Daniel Thewlis) is unable to=20 find any meaning in or make any commitment to people, life,=20 or any religious belief. In a series of encounters with friends and strangers he=20 meets […]
Arthur Goldstuck On a road to nowhere RECONSTRUCTION and development has taken on new meaning in the Johannesburg suburb of Parkwood. About a month ago, a major road in the area was resurfaced. The next day, before the tar had even had time to set, excavators moved in and dug up the road. A representative […]
THEATRE: Guy Willoughby THE honeymoon is over, and a year down the line all of us=20 voters — the slapgatte as well as the sentient — should=20 start subjecting the new political order to sharp scrutiny.=20 That’s the premise of You ANC Nothing Yet, Pieter-Dirk Uys’=20 fine new revue at Cape Town’s Dock Road Theatre, […]
The death of veteran anti-apartheid activist Yusef Cachalia was a “great personal blow,” President Nelson Mandela said this week. Cachalia, who had been ill for some time, died on Tuesday at the age of 80. Mandela said he and Cachalia had been friends since the ANC veteran Walter Sisulu said he and Cachalia, who had […]
Michael McMurray THE Constitutional Court has been asked to rule on a controversial dagga law which automatically turns dope smokers into dope dealers if they’re found with more than a handful of the weed. At stake is the validity of the so-called “suspicion” or “presumption” clause in the Drug and Drug Trafficking Act of 1992. […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE is a lot of truth in the old adage that there is no=20 remarks column on the scoreboard. But, with only a four- point edge in the 104 points scored in two warm-up matches=20 against Western Province and Natal, the World Cup squad=20 have some serious thinking to do. There are […]
and continued: “‘Tis none of your business, dear friend, for the gentleman of Caucasian extraction possesses a palm that is two times your visage. Glasses ar expensive …” In revolutionary zeal, I had neglected to look at the size of the offending whitey and thought onl’ of my self- righteous blackness and how I could […]