THEATRE: Bafana Khumalo T HERE is something terribly dated about The Hill, a=20 Zakes Mda-penned play looking at the lives of the poor in=20 Southern Africa. It transports one back to the bad old=20 past, when migrant labour was still considered a thing=20 worth talking about and the collusion of the church in=20 people’s oppression […]
THERE could hardly be a more exciting time to start a=20 revamped national radio service in South Africa. Just=20 look at us! We no longer stink like a polecat. The=20 president jets all over the place receiving hero’s=20 welcomes. The Queen of England comes to dinner. In=20 Washington, President Clinton of the United States shakes=20 […]
CINEMA: William Pretorius SOONER or later, I guess, we’d all like to turn into our=20 favourite cartoon character. As nerdish bank clerk=20 Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask, Jim Carrey turns anarchic=20 when he puts on a magic Nordic mask personifying the god=20 of mischief, banished from Valhalla and accidentally=20 released from the sea. The Mask, […]
The actions of a British paper led to the arrest of a mercenary accused of third force killings. Did they double-cross a murderer for the sake of a good story? Eddie Koch reports THE London Sunday Times is facing controversy over its role in the arrest of a mercenary who was its source in an […]
Weekly Mail & Guardian editor Anton Harber, a former Wits student, believes the university administration has been too clever for its own good The University of the Witwatersrand is providing an early-warning barometer of pressures we can expect in the rest of our society. The campus has often served this role. In the 1970s, it […]
Louise Flanagan Although Ernst Penzhorn and some of his partners at the prestigious Pretoria law firm where he worked at the time, MacRobert De Villiers Lunnon and Tindall, have registered several front companies for MI, both the military and Penzhorn deny he worked for Military Intelligence (MI) Information published at the time of the Harms […]
As increasing numbers of coloured people become disillusioned with the big political parties, a new group has stepped into the breach, writes Stefaans Brummer ‘THE brown man’s struggle did not end when Nelson Mandela was freed. Our struggle is against a new form of slavery which hangs over us like a black cloud,” is how […]
The textile industry will have to shift up a gear if it=20 is to cope against foreign competition, reports Jacques=20 THE scrapping of import surcharges in last week’s Budget=20 tolls the death knell for protectionism and import=20 substitution, destroying a complacent way of life for=20 South African industrialists and manufacturers alike. While the scrapping of […]
Critical Consumer Pat Sidley IT IS a commonly held view that South African consumers are ignorant, apathetic and don’t stand up for themselves. There is good reason for thinking this at times — particularly when well-educated, well-heeled consumers who know the ropes of life don’t take up the challenge of bad service, sue for medical […]
ICE HOCKEY fans are in for a treat — the Pool C World=20 Championships, featuring top new teams such as Lithuania=20 and Croatia. Between this week and the end of the month, 10 teams will=20 fight for places in the semi-finals and finals at the=20 Carlton and Krugersdorp rinks. “From a purely competitive point of […]