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/ 19 September 2006

Opera in hell

Opera in South Africa — and in Cape Town in particular — stands at a critical but exciting crossroads, writes . As Cape Town Opera CEO Angelo Gobbato recently remarked, with casts now overwhelmingly black, the search is on to win an audience fitting the same description.

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/ 19 September 2006

Alternative mainstream

This year the popular Aardklop Arts Festival celebrates its sixth anniversary and organisers are expecting it to be the biggest ever. From Tuesday September 23 to Saturday September 27 art lovers of the north will descend on Potchefstroom yet again, writes Yolandi Groenewald.

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/ 19 September 2006

Mother of the dance

Dance anthropologist, choreographer and the founder of the <i>Moving into Dance Mophatong</i> project, Sylvia “Magogo” Glasser is something of a human monument in the local dance scene. That’s probably why her students have crowned her “granny”, writes Matthew Krouse.

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/ 19 September 2006

Avoid the under-insurance pitfall

The threat of rising inflation is sending a reminder to the homeowners of South Africa that replacement values of many appliances and items of furniture will soon be going up, making it vital that short-term insurance policies be reviewed. The main danger is that policyholders who fail to carry out a review could find themselves under-insured.

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/ 19 September 2006

Drinking, thinking

If you’re in search of good company, a relaxed ambience, and intelligent discussion on the state of the world you’d be forgiven – for searching, that is. Sometimes it seems like Jo’burg’s hip, worldly, "in the know" crowd has vanished. Khadija Magardie investigates.

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/ 19 September 2006

Return of the killer worm

On stage at London’s revamped Almeida Theatre a star-studded cast is acting out a story about love and politics, set in South Africa and revolving around the moment one spring day when Demetrios Tsafendas kills the architect of apartheid, prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd, in Parliament, writes Janine Stephen.

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/ 19 September 2006

Cosatu reports R842 000 loss

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has reported in its detailed income statement a loss of R842 153 rand in the year to December 2005, down from a R5,4-million profit in 2004. This is reported in its treasurer’s report to the Cosatu congress being held at Midrand. Its books were audited by Deloitte and Touche.

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/ 19 September 2006

The battle for sky miles

Last month both Kulula and South African Airways (SAA) Voyager launched their credit card offering to the market. I suspect when SAA compiled its marketing brochures leading with "nothing earns you more miles faster", it did not know what Kulula was up to.