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 […]

Peter Rorvik THE Tuesday weather map depicted a pair of cold fronts heading up from the Atlantic, with rain and cold expected at Splashy Fen. Well, it got cold but, unlike last year, it didn’t rain. In fact, there were some glorious sunny spells at the festival last weekend– people swam in the river every […]

With Kenya and Italy sending weak teams local athletes won’t really be facing much competition this weekend ATHLETICS: Julian Drew THE curtain comes down on the domestic athletics season in Cape Town tomorrow with the first athletics Test match in South Africa since 1966. Italy and Kenya will compete against a South African team and […]

Gaye Davis WOMEN in Parliament have a doubly loaded agenda. They bear the hopes and dreams of millions of South African women wanting a better life — and the responsibility for making sure the constitution’s great-sounding new clauses become more than just paper guarantees. Yet, a year down the line, they still lack the basic […]

Steven Ntuli Labour Minister Tito Mboweni is struggling to find workers for his department. The problem, he says, is that he pays too little. The former trade union leader made this candid admission at an impromptu speech at Rhodes University this week. ”I am struggling to get black workers to work at the department because […]

The lives of people in KwaZulu/Natal have been shaped for more than five years by the politics of the graveyard. When some political leaders want their way, it has become habitual for them to use violence and threaten more of it. It is no exaggeration to say the constitution of the country’s problem province is […]

In his May Day message, Cosatu general secretary Sam Shilowa outlined the trade union movement’s concerns over the new Labour Relations Bill. This is an edited version of his speech. The often-stated objective of the (new Labour Relations) legislation (LRA) is to give workers rights, minimise conflict on the shop floor and provide for the […]

Critical Consumer Pat Sidley ON April 1, consumers looking for a bargain in cellular telephones will receive a jolt. And later in the year, having signed up for bargains this week, they will get yet another jolt when tariffs rise. This is because the two networks (MTN and Vodacom) are cutting back on the size […]

THEATRE: Guy Willoughby=20 GRAHAM WEIR is one clever, talented, protean man of=20 theatre. In a number of shows of his own and others’=20 devising, he’s proved he can act, sing, dance and think=20 on his feet — no mean achievement in the local=20 performing arts world.=20 Brief Descriptions is his one-man, award-winning view of=20 human […]

Inge Ruigrok South African doctors are following international trends and calling for dagga to be legalised for limited medical use here — although its illegal status and cultural prejudices against its use make the local research needed to back this change extremely Cape Town neurologist and researcher, Professor Frances Ames, says up to 70 percent […]