THEATRE: Andrew Wilson NEED relief from mind-dulling television? Take a dose of Death-Defying Acts on at Johannesburg’s Civic Theatre until December 21 – three brilliant, hilarious and incisive one-act playlets by David Mamet, Woody Allen and Elaine May. They are thematically interwoven glimpses of urban America, all employing sparkling dialogue to parody and penetrate the […]

Madeleine Wackernagel BRITISH AEROSPACE (BAe), a front runner in the bidding to replace the ageing Impala trainers, is taking a 20% stake in Advanced Technologies & Engineering (ATE), which supplies the integrated avionics systems for the South African Air Force’s Pilatus “Astra” trainer and the Rooivalk attack helicopter. The value of the shareholding was not […]

Jan Raath in Harare THE word “august” gets its very meaning from the Law Society’s annual dinner. The legal eagles of Zimbabwe gathered in black tie rectitude last Saturday in the Royal Harare Golf Club, with their wives softening the crispness of the occasion. Imagine Chief Justice Ted Gubbay without his shoulder-length horsehair wig, attorney- […]

Huge pressure has been put on ousted Free State premier Patrick Lekota to abandon the provincial leadership battle, angering ANC members. Rehana Rossouw reports from the turbulent province PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela this week offered Patrick “Terror” Lekota a Cabinet post if, for the sake of party unity, he agreed to withdraw from the contest for […]

TELEVISION: Bafana Khumalo SOMETHING new has been happening on Monday evenings on SABC2. I, as a black South African, have been recognising myself on the small screen. It is not exactly my life, but it calls to mind a painting I have seen around me all my life. All this from Gaabo Motho. One has […]

When the melon seller stabbed the swimmer … and other tales from Moscow. David Hearst and Steven Downes report DYNAMO Stadium, once the impregnable fortress of teams representing the Soviet Union’s Ministry of the Interior, is today under siege from a multitude of vendors’ stalls. The Metro stop, done up like a Roman temple, still […]

The new Springbok management style has been a success on and off the field – so far RUGBY:Andy Capostagno TWO weeks into tour and still no banana skins. There were a few slippery moments in the first Test, but seven tries to two is a fairly emphatic victory in anyone’s language, and no one is […]

Rehana Rossouw DOOR-TO-DOOR campaigning has already started in some Free State towns as African National Congress members rally support for their candidates for the election of new leaders in the forthcoming provincial conference. A drive for new members is also under way to win seats on the regional executive – amid complaints in areas known […]

Allegations of political horse-trading have tainted the selection of the new SABC board, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy THE new South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board members await President Nelson Mandela’s approval before they can take up their seats at the end of the month. But this round of nominees, selected by a parliamentary committee, has raised […]

John de St Jorre in London AN oil painting which has been missing for 400 years and is attributed to the Italian old master, Caravaggio, could fetch up to 10-million at an auction in London next month. The picture is the property of a private owner. The auctioneers, Phillips, originally attributed the picture in their […]