Peter Frost : On stage in Cape Town The love between Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson has inspired many a romantic fancy on stage, none slushier than the recent West End musical Always, a sunset-and-syrup escapade – as nauseating as it was, according to British playwright Snoo Wilson, untrue. Wilson’s new drama HRH, by contrast, […]
A growing number of readers have been demanding to know from the Mail & Guardian when Robert McBride is going to be released from the Mozambique prison where he is being held. Well might they ask. And it is not the only question which needs to be asked of the authorities where the McBride case […]
Tim Radford Scientists who identified a single gene that protects against cancerous chemicals said this week a cancer-prevention pill could be undergoing trials within a decade. The Scottish team’s research found that a single gene may determine whether a smoker develops lung cancer. In an experiment with mice, scientists demonstrated that the gene provides a […]
Tangeni Amupadhi Legal assistance from advocates has become far too expensive for most South Africans. The Society of Advocates has set fees of up to R1 080 an hour and as much as R10 800 a day. The Johannesburg Bar Council approved the new fee guidelines last week. The R540 to R1 080 hourly rates […]
Durban will once again host a number of international and South Africa poets, when the second Poetry Africa festival takes place at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, from May 4 to 9. Some 20 poets will present and read from their work and engage in discussion. Jamaican-born musician/poet Linton Kwesi Johnson is the opening-night headliner. Well […]
This is the full transcript of the charge sheet against Robert McBride 7th court – criminal This is a copy of the charge sheet, pages 145 to 148, in the case of court ref no 66/98/7th, deducted by the public prosecutor against the accused: Robert John McBride, Vuzi Mbata and Alexandre Francisco Uamba Recorded number […]
Tracy Murinik : On show in Cape Town A coffee pot with six spouts stands on a now coffee-stained table surrounded by six coffee cups into which it spurts the same, now-acrid coffee that it has been recycling for the past few weeks. Mns Wrange’s Monument: Democratic Coffee Table with Fair Coffee Pot and Equal […]
Suren Pillay : A SECOND LOOK Academic seminars have a reputation, not completely unfounded, for being staid, boring affairs in which crusty old professors, and younger wannabees, share and debate jargon with mild civility and polite banter. But recently I attended one that had the tension of a dramatic performance, and the raunchiness of a […]
The stakes are high as businesses do battle for Johnnic, a showpiece empowerment company, writes Jenny Cargill It is almost like old times watching the current wrangling within the National Empowerment Consortium (NEC) over New Africa Investments Limited’s (Nail) bid to merge with Johnnic. The 18-month run-up to the NEC’s purchase of the controlling interest […]
THURSDAY, 8.30AM: SIPHIWE NYANDA, former chief of staff of Umkhonto weSizwe, is to take over as chief of the SA Defence Force in June, following the resignation of General Georg Meiring. Nyanda, who will be promoted to full general, faces the mammoth task of uniting white and black soldiers who, until 1994, were bitter foes. […]