FINE ART: James Garner WITH the cultural boycott a thing of the past, the idea of cultural exchange has taken on a new currency as practitioners feverishly cast off the shackles of For many, Three Ways: An Exhibition of Contemporary British Paintings at the South African National Gallery will be their first opportunity to come […]

The man who exposed the `Verwoedian’ methods of Unisa’s education faculty now faces disciplinary action. Pat Sidley reports AFTER 25 years of editing and translating University of South Africa (Unisa) study guides, Sam van den Berg blew the whistle on the “morally outrageous” material the correspondence university was providing to education students. As a result, […]

Gavin Evans and Stefaans Brummer SOUTH african National Defence Force military intelligence is still interested in bugging its enemies, although these days it prefers to call them This much emerged from a “feeling out” session monitored by the Weekly Mail & Guardian, between a Wits student “spotted” by an SANDF talent scout, and a senior […]

Finance Week editor Alan Greenblo has left the magazine — or has he? Jacques Magliolo reports BUSINESS magazine Finance Week’s editor Alan Greenblo bid a lengthy, sad, farewell in the latest issue of the magazine, in what seemed the last chapter of a long battle for control of the independent financial publication. However, he was […]

THEATRE: Robert Greig HYSTERIA is an impudent, sprawling, funny and splendidly perverse farce about the fantasies of Sigmund Freud. It turns the person whom WH Auden described as “a climate of opinion” into a bumbler floundering in the nets of his own theories. As with Tom and Viv, one may learn little about Freud or […]

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser A STUNNING performance of Benjamin Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge gave the South African tour of the London Philharmonic Orchestra a flying start at the Johannesbiurg City Hall this week. The Variations, one of Britten’s early creations for string orchestra, was a perfect choice for the LPO strings […]

The presence of a Krugersdorp riot unit fanned the flames of racial tension in the violent clash at Orlando police station, writes Stefaans Brummer THE strike at Orlando East police station in Soweto last month exploded in ugly racial confrontation — and resulted in the death of a striking policeman — because of the chance […]

Stefaans Brummer A CHARGE of theft is being investigated against Dirk Coetzee, the former Vlakplaas commander who exposed police hit squads, in what Coetzee believes is a campaign of revenge against him. Coetzee was informed on February 1 that Middelburg police were investigating a charge that he had stolen R6 000 from a man in […]

TV viewers can expect radical changes in their watching habits, writes a Weekly Mail reporter THE South African Broadcasting Corporation is thoroughly revising what viewers see on their screens and the three TV channels as we know them are likely to disappear within weeks. The current NNTV signal — which serves only metropolitan areas — […]

Among the leading lights of the London Philharmonic Orchestra is South African Gina Beukes. She spoke to Coenraad Visser WHEN the London Philharmonic Orchestra takes the stage on its South African tour, a face familiar to South African audiences is at one of the front desks — Gina Beukes was recently appointed principal second violin […]