Cinema Stanley Peskin WHEN, in 1977, Herbert Ross made The Turning Point, it was possible in a mainstream film to deal explicitly with women’s rights, but it was certainly not commercially advisable to explore with any sympathy gender issues and gay liberation. That film was soap-ballet, self-conscious and maudlin. In 1995, Boys on the Side […]
THEATRE: Di Mannie WHAT is the very best treatment that can be given to someone suffering from Aids or terminal cancer? Without a doubt, it is the support and concern of a loving family. This is the message that shines through loud and clear in the tender, humorous Moira Blumenthal production of Two Weeks with […]
The government is cresting a wave of popularity and goodwill that, unprecedented as it is this country, would probably be just as remarkable in any other. The survey results we publish this week, the findings of a poll of 150 top business and trade union leaders, reveal extraordinary confidence in the ANC-led government after its […]
DR ALLAN Boesak’s embattled FPJ suffered huge losses in a $40-million bungled bank loan that lead to the doorstep of Indonesia’s President.
CINEMA: Trevor Steele-Taylor WALERIAN BOROWCZYK’S infamous erotic fable The Beast (La Bete), made in 1975, is one of those curiously carnal works the French are so adept at. Echoes of the Marquis de Sade, Georges Bataille and Joris Karl Huysmans rub shoulders with the music of Domenico Scarlatti, the bestiary of Jean de la Fontaine […]
Passing trend, ritual adornment or self-mutilation — whichever way you look at it, body piercing is ‘in’. Malu van Leeuwen investigates IN Tsukamoto’s cult film Tetsuo: The Iron Man, a metal fetishist inserts a large tubular bar of steel into an open, self-inflicted wound in his thigh. We may not have reached this level in […]
Reg Rumney Crime and violence have pushed their way to the top of the list of business people’s concerns. Business respondents to the Weekly Mail & Guardian survey put prevention of crime and violence as the top priority of the Government of National Unity (38 percent of respondents). Job creation is second, and ensuring delivery […]
Some 63 percent of business respondents to the survey vote “no” to the question, “Should the ANC/Cosatu alliance continue?” Seventy-one percent of whites say no, and 39 percent of blacks. The contrast, says Case, mirrors the divisions between black and white business leaders on economic issues like redistribution, and contract quotas for small businesses. Many […]
Justin Pearce How can the provinces turn the idea of provincially-based broadcasting into a reality? While this matter is still up for discussion, the Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation this week presented the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) with a proposal to open up Bop Broadcasting’s facilities as a resource for all the provinces. This plan would see […]
Barbara Ludman IT doesn’t have the catchiest name or the greatest tunes, but English in Action, launched this week on Radio 2000, may well have the highest listenership in the country — among the under-eights, at any rate. The half-hour programme of songs, drills and word games has been broadcast daily at 10.30am since Tuesday. […]