Humphrey Tyler EVERYBODY interested in drama, arts and music is being asked to help raise funds to restore the 1820 Settlers National Foundation Monument building in Grahamstown in time for the Standard Bank National Arts Festival next July. The building was almost gutted by fire last month. The luxurious 920-seat Monument Theatre, heart of the […]

The Markets Jacques Magliolo AT last: excellent news for all those analysts who were retrenched between 1990 and 1992. This week’s announcement that United Kingdom stockbrokers James Capel is to acquire a 51 percent stake in local firm Simpson McKie hails the return of demand for Johannesburg Stock Exchange mining and industrial analysts. Following the […]

Wine snobs can be pretty boring, debating years and cultivars. Scotch snobs are a different breed entirely, writes Justin Pearce IT was one of those perfect spring evenings, the sunlight casting a golden sheen on the waters of Table Bay. Suddenly the peace was ripped by a sound normally associated with mists and soggy heather: […]

Sibusiso Nxumalo THE much-anticipated performance of London-based dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson with The African Axemen in Johannesburg has been called off. While a poetry reading session and workshop are scheduled to go ahead as part of the Arts Alive festival, the Jamaican-born Johnson has cancelled the one-off concert on the grounds that he only […]

FINE ART: James Garner IT isn’t often in Cape Town that you get to see an exhibition devoted almost entirely to photographic works, let alone to photographs by women. Yet the success of Photo Works by Women, at the South African Association of Arts, can be put down to more than just politically-correct expediency. Curator […]

Openness appears to be anathema to those in the process of appointing our Constitutional Court judges, writes Dennis Davis ALL things considered, the shortlist of 25 lawyers made public by the Judicial Services Commission last week is impressive. In preparing its list of Constitutional Court nominees (after each is interviewed, the JSC will choose 10, […]

CRITICAL CONSUMER Pat Sidley THE medical profession is likely soon to have one of its long-standing restrictive practices curtailed. Doctors registered with the Medical and Dental Council presently may not co-operate with any of the alternative medicine professions, such as chiropractic, osteopathy or homeopathy. This restriction has over the years engendered distrust, ignorance and protectionism. […]

Big capital projects are set to boost the economy, reports Simon Segal AN estimated extra R65-billion in the pipeline for big capital projects could boost economic growth by an extra three percent a year, adjusted for inflation, over the next three years. That R65-billion, identified by stockbroking firm Frankel Pollak Vinderine’s economist Mike Brown, does […]

TWO years after demonstrators were mown down by Ciskei troops in what became known as the Bisho massacre, a decision has yet to be taken on whether to prosecute 69 soldiers allegedly responsible for the killings. Ciskei attorney general Willem Jurgens said this week nothing had changed since his statement in January, when he announced […]