A document leaked to the Mail, alleging misuse of funds, caused a stir at the Cosatu congress, reports Drew Forrest FURIOUS Cosatu leaders are alleging a disinformation campaign aimed at smearing them and influencing the Cosatu congress after the leak of a confidential financial report to the Mail. The report points to misuse of money […]

BRITAINS Royal National Threatre Studio — patron HM the Queen — is due to visit South Africa to hold workshops and classes at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. The visit, led by NT head Sue Higginson, will take place from September 26 to October 7. A group of about 30 people from the NT — […]

ATHLETICS: Julian Drew BUOYED by the success of 1992, Africa has sent an even stronger team to this weekend’s Athletics World Cup in London in the hope that it can retain the trophy it won in such rousing style in Havana. On the final day of competition in Cuba two years ago, Africa led the […]

Lesley Cowling STRIP the five Cover Boys down to their bare essentials, take away their G-strings, animal skins and ripped jeans, and underneath you will find your regular nice South African guy. But on stage, they offer themselves to their all- women audiences in fast-paced dance routines, stripping down to G-strings from a variety of […]

Mondli waka Makhanya THE Pan Africanist Congress appears headed for a showdown with the government over demands for amnesty for its political prisoners. The organisation this week threatened the mother of all mass action inside and outside prisons if the goverment does not release the 90-odd PAC members convicted of politically motivated offences or awaiting […]

Best Fiction Film, Best Documentary — even Most Courageous Film … Prizes are up for grabs in this years Short Film Competition, writes Trevor Steele-Taylor THE annual Mail & Guardian/ Fawo Short Film Competition, which accompanies the Mail & Guardian Film Festival (now the South African International Film Festival), is entering its sixth, bumper year. […]

Tokyo Sexwale, PWV premier, replies to criticism of his attack on the press YOU strike a journalist, you strike a rock. Journalists are understandably touchy about their freedom to express themselves. Politicians, too, are touchy about attempts at character assassination and dissemination of disinformation. Lets put a few things on record: * A democratic media […]

# A PERSPECTIVE THAT WORKS DAENS Directed by Stijn Coninx DAENS, set at the turn of the century in the small Belgian town of Aalst, is full of intrigue — not the melodramatic clash of ambitious egos as in your average soapie, but political manipulation in high places, with the Vatican and rich factory owners […]

Feathers may defy the laws of gravity but theyre good business if youre into extravagant head-gear. Sean Badal reports THERE are more feathers surrounding Andre Kemp and Nikki Swift than a pouting Prince in Paisley Park. But before you rush out and invest in Seventies retro gear and risk becoming a casualty of fashion, take […]