International choreographer Emio Greco tells Matthew Krouse that local dance must free itself from social themes.
Nadine Botha goes to Mike van Graan’s derisive new play about contrasting youths.
Nadine Botha braves an African sweat lodge — semi-naked and with a bunch of strangers.
Many drivers don’t realise that should their car be involved in an accident due to lack of maintenance, their insurer is unlikely to pay out. "The insured must take all reasonable steps to safeguard the vehicle from loss and damage and maintain it in an efficient condition at all times to remain covered," says the head of Santam’s claims administrative services.
Never mind Cujo the dog or Christine the car. Imagine the horror of finding a slip from the post office saying this month’s Telkom bill is too big for street delivery. At the post office waits 412 pages, double-sided, listing calls every six seconds to the number your modem uses to get online at Telkom’s minimum charge of 59c each.
South Africa’s cellphone giants have fired their own shots in the price war triggered by Virgin Mobile, but despite price reductions and simplified packages, the incumbents have still to go a long way to catch Virgin, which leads by far in the money-for-value stakes.
Up to 450Â 000 chanting soccer fans will be shoehorned through South Africa’s airports during the 2010 World Cup Soccer tournament, creating a logistical nightmare for the airports, immigration officials and police. Tourists looking for a piece of African tranquillity are likely to plan their trips on either side of the event so as to avoid the crush.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>Jacob Zuma’s upcoming fraud and corruption trial threatens to become the next round of the ugly power struggle in the African National Congress, with the trial potentially being used to embarrass President Thabo Mbeki by placing him on the witness stand.
In May 1942, one of the Nazi regime’s most notorious mass murderers, Deputy Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich, was assassinated by Czech partisans. The Nazi response was to demolish the nearby village of Lidice house by house and either shoot its inhabitants or send them to death camps. What, in principle, is the difference between the collective punishment visited on Lidice and the indiscriminate bombing of Lebanese roads, bridges and homes?
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK</b>: George Clooney’s new oil-industry drama, <i>Syriana</i> offers engrossing and informative viewing, writes Shaun de Waal.