DANCE: Suzy Bell HE recently presented a paper on “Culture in South Africa” to Art International in New York, then nipped across to Scotland to choreograph a Scottish dance theatre company and then leaped across the continent to Vienna to attend a workshop with choreographers from Bulgaria to Japan. He’s Boysie Cekwana, multi-award winning choreographer […]

The threatening mood at the latest Pagad press conference held in Cape Town was captured by Rehana Rossouw THE latest onslaught on the media by People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) has been condemned by Minister of Post, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Jay Naidoo as worse than the threats against the media at the height of […]

Ann Eveleth KWAZULU-NATAL attorney general Tim McNally has again come under fire from the Investigation Task Unit (ITU)probing hit- squads in the province after he declined to prosecute the third hit squad-related case brought before him since the October acquittal of former defence minister Magnus Malan and 19 others. The ITU’s civilian board convenor Howard […]

Anthony Kunda and Stefaans Brmmer APPARENTLY faked documents saying that Zambian President Frederick Chiluba’s wife visited South Africa for drugs treatment adds to a litany of irregularities as the Zambian election race enters its final stage. The Mail & Guardian was provided this week with immigration computer printouts, and what appears to be first lady […]

An indaba held by the parks board to discuss the problem of elephants in the Kruger Park ended up being dominated by the needs of neighbouring communities, writes Eddie Koch THE sky on the night of President Nelson Mandela’s inauguration back in May 1994 was moonless and, after watching the song and dance at the […]

GOLF: Jon Swift THERE is nothing like the words World Cup to boost the expectations of this nation. South Africa’s success at Ellis Park last year elevated the rugby side to the status of national heroes. The lacklustre 1-0 victory over a jetlagged Zaire in the qualifier for soccer`s premier competition evoked countrywide anger fuelled […]

Low costs have attracted investors to Britain, but at the price of quality growth, argues Larry Elliott ONE of comedy’s finest moments is the scene in Fawlty Towers in which Basil flails his broken-down car with the branch from a tree. The year was 1975, the car was British and the moment seemed to sum […]

Palaeontologists have found an 18-million- year-old tooth in Namaqualand, writes Lesley Cowling. Is this proof that Eden extended as far as South Africa? FEW people taking a stroll along a beach would notice this small, white, pebble-like object. A dentist should recognise it as a tooth, says French palaeontologist Dr Brigitte Senut. “And if he […]

Playwright JONATHAN HARVEY also wrote the screenplay for Beautiful Thing. It’s been called a fantasy, but here he argues that it could be true … PEOPLE think of Beautiful Thing as my first play, when in fact it’s my seventh. But though they’re technically wrong, they are right in a way – it was the […]