Jacques Magliolo Diamond giant De Beers released its unaudited results for the year to December 1994 this week and promised investors virtually unchanged earnings per share and a mere 4,5 percent increase in dividends. It seemed that the sole focus of the presentation was to voice their annoyance at Russia’s refusal to adhere to signed […]

Stefaaans Brummer THE mere fact of another young man in Pretoria testing HIV-positive was not what caused the news to spread so rapidly through the city’s sizeable gay community last week. Too many have already had contact with the condition to take special note. But in the case of 25-year-old student Martin Erasmus it was […]

CINEMA: William Pretorius IF, as Situationist Guy Debord announced would happen in the 1960s, the rise of the mass media has turned society into spectacle, then serial killers are the prime exhibits. They are no longer regarded as murderers, but as gruesome celebrities. That’s why Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers got it right: the movie […]

She is 20, and she’s the editor and chief pinup of a porn magazine that’s taking South Africa by storm. Anouk Mommer reports ‘Hi, I’m Satinder and … I will be editing all letters sent in by you, the South African reader. Please don’t hesitate to write to me to ask me about whatever’s on […]

If Dance Umbrella’s contemporary ballets are meant to be populist, why, asks Stanley Peskin, do they continue to elude understanding? DANCE Umbrella is now seven years old, and during its formative years some bad habits have set in. In the case of children, there are absent fathers, working mothers, lost sons. In the case of […]

Moveable Feast Marino Corazza WE’RE all part of the global village — or are we? There are still suburbs (however few and small) where the inhabitants nonchalantly live in their own worlds. Like the Glamour Village, where people on the hoof sport helenca jodhpurs, velour protective hats, that frothy, horsey smell and dung on their […]

John Velzian coaches the Kenyan athletes so he’s well qualified to reveal the secret of their success ATHLETICS: Julian Drew IT was on a Friday evening in July 1954 at London’s White City that the barefooted figure of Chepkwony from Kenya went to the line for the six miles at the English AAA championships. In […]

Mapula Sibanda South Africa’s nine regions have been in place for more than six months, but old provincial sports structures — as many as 22 in rugby, for example — play on. Some officials respectably cite the “hampering of development” or “confusing” provincial name changes for this laxity, but the more frank attribute it to […]

Weekly Mail & Guardian Reporter A SCREENING of the Citizen Kane of Egyptian cinema, The Night of Counting the Years, will open the Egyptian Film Festival next Friday at the Seven Arts Cinema in Norwood. Directed by Shadi Abdel Salam, the film is set at the opening of the tombs of the pharaohs in 1881 […]

ANTON Harber has been named sole editor of the Weekly Mail & Guardian. Harber has been co-editor since the paper’s launch a decade ago. The other co-editor, Irwin Manoim, has been appointed to head the planning for a new publishing venture that is part of the WM&G group’s development “Changes in South African politics and […]