THEATRE: Guy Willoughby JUST what are Barney Simon and his cast doing in this bad production of a good but dated play about hopelessness in London’s East End? Sad to tell, but Simon — one of South Africa’s most celebrated directors — seems to have lost his way; at the very least, this version of […]
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 […]
A hard-headed tycoon, a powerful sports politician, the Olympics , millions of rands at stake. Julian Drew looks at the battle over Cape Town’s bid to host the 2004 games IT was a battle that even the feisty and influential Raymond Ackerman could never win. ——————In the end his feud with Sam Ramsamy, president of […]
Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela will speak on the same platform in Copenhagen this weekend, but South Africa still seems to have mixed feelings about Cuba, writes Peter Vale TEN months after the election, South Africa still seems unable to articulate a coherent and cohesive policy towards Cuba. Certainly foreign minister Alfred Nzo’s performance on […]
Combating discrimination was the main focus of the international Aids conference held in Cape Town this week. Justin Pearce reports BURIED in the agenda of this week’s Cape Town International Conference for People Living with HIV and Aids was a session entitled “Identities”. Delegates split into interest groups — sex workers, heterosexuals, drug users, lesbians/gays, […]
Critical Consumer Pat Sidley NEXT week’s Budget will please citizens who have become secondhand tobacco consumers without their consent: the anti-smoking lobby is expecting a tobacco tax increase. This may be between 25c and 40c per pack of 20s. It may not be nearly enough, but at least it’s something. And if the past is […]
Although crowds at the New Zealand Test were disappointing, it was a triumphant end to a hard season for South Africa’s cricketers CRICKET: Krish Mi’rams SOUTH AFRICA’S one-off Test win over New Zealand at Eden Park in Auckland capped a season of great triumph for South Africa’s cricketers. The 94-run victory was the fourth in […]
Super 10: Skilful forwards lay the foundation RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE are times when the performance of a pack of forwards takes your breath away. The famed All Black eight-man blanket is invariably capable of eliciting this reaction. The French rise to these heights when Gallic whim takes them, and of late both the English […]
Ann Eveleth analyses the outcome of the special IFP meeting in Ulundi last weekend All eyes focused on Ulundi last weekend, when the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) met to decide its fate in the government of national unity (GNU). The parliamentary walk-out nearly two weeks earlier appeared to signal the death-knell of the reconcilation politics […]
Bruce Cohen Winnie Mandela may have angered Nelson and upstaged Thabo, but she’s been thrilling the northern suburbs of Johnnesburg with an urban legend of epicurian The rumour started last November and goes something like this: Winnie and party of 10 or so arrived at the famed Ile de France restaurant in Bryanston, owned by […]