Absent talent: Super 10 and World Cup keep top players=20 away from festival in Hong Kong RUGBY: Barney Spender IT’S that time of the year again when, for one mad=20 weekend, the serious business of grinding 15-man rugby is=20 put on the back burner and in its place hops the rather=20 frisky and entirely unserious […]
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 […]
The people of Namaqualand didn’t just want to see the queen, they wanted to ask her for help, writes Justin Pearce The people from Namaqualand didn’t wave flags to greet Queen Elizabeth on her arrival in Cape Town on Monday. They waved placards. The only obviously dissenting voices in the crowd, they had travelled 500km […]
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 […]
DANCE: Stanley Peskin THE first season staged by the excellent Pact Dance=20 Company this year features one new ballet (Susan=20 Abraham’s Heritage) and two familiar works (Robyn Orlin’s=20 As Fall Women, So Fall Women and Christopher Kindo’s Me=20 and You). Orlin’s work has at its centre three duets which explore=20 the relationship of women to […]
Defence Minister Joe Modise has a lot on his plate. So let us help him get his priorities straight. Let him release immediately the Military Intelligence files on Anton Lubowski to prove their claim that the assassinated Namibian advocate was indeed an informer. The mystery surrounding the slain advocate and senior Swapo member has gone […]
THEATRE: Digby Ricci ‘I DECIDED to write a work that should depart from the=20 trodden path, make a stir, and reverberate on this earth=20 after my demise,” Pierre-Ambroise-Fran=8Dois Choderlos de=20 Laclos famously declared of his chilling, profound=20 epistolary novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, but even this=20 truly prophetic and insightful author could never have=20 predicted the […]