‘<i>Ek sal ’n oranje pet dra</i> [I’ll be wearing an orange cap]" was how it sounded. The Japanese professor was telling me how to recognise him when he arrived at Johannesburg International. In Afrikaans. A thought flashed through my head: was Takasji Sakura’s cap "oranje" as in the colour, or from Orania as in the Northern Cape?
The government’s foot-dragging response to a Durban High Court order to provide anti-retroviral treatment to HIV-positive prisoners continued this week when it ignored a deadline to give the High Court proof of its treatment plan for inmates at Durban’s Westville Prison.
Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin on Thursday denied ever saying that the infamous bolt thought to have tripped Cape Town’s Koeberg power station last year was the result of sabotage. Erwin was quoted in <i>Business Day</i> on March 2 as saying "the bolt that caused the generators destruction did not get there by accident".
Twelve years on, the commanding heights of the economy are finally being tackled in the service of the ordinary man and woman. In electricity, the regulator has found Eskom negligence behind the power cuts that caused widespread disruption in the Western Cape; that its highly paid executives were essentially asleep at the switch.
In a paper titled <i>Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets</i>, Columbia University’s Ray Fisman and Berkeley’s Edward Miguel used parking violation data from the thousands of foreign government officials stationed at the United Nations in New York as a barometer of how corrupt their home countries are.
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<b>MOVIE MONTHLY:</b> <i>The Commitments</i> fans will enjoy <i>The Boys from County Clare</i> — no less for Andrea Corr’s acting debut. The ever-controversial director Lars von Trier stirs the pot with <i>Dogville</i>, starring Nicole Kidman, and fans of that famous lasagne-loving kitty will be pleased to hear <i>Garfield</i> is here.
The futuristic Fuse continues the classic clowning around that characterises an Andrew Buckland performance, and is bound to be a success, writes Matthew Wilhem-Solomon.
"The most exciting dance comes from the moments of fusion, of contorted bodies and sassy hips, and the theatrical characterisation, rather than the abject geometry of classical ballet." Nadine Botha contemplates the evolution of ballet as performed in <i>Windows</i>.
Hedonism is by definition an urgent philosophy. To demur, to decline, even to hesitate, is to fail. In a world in which all delights must be sampled, and all desires sated, there is no place for the passive thrill-seeker. If he lies face-down on the Ottoman in his vomitorium it must be because he has misjudged his ability to have sex with five people of various genders while eating chip-rolls and custard slices.