THEATRE: Sifiso Maseko AT its best Booksy, Cooksy, Doopsy at the Windybrow Theatre in Johannesburg is an elaborate orgy of uncomfortable orgasms. Few plays can claim to revolt our sense of dignity and ideals, yet find our sympathy. The comedy that recently won the Windybrow’s annual community arts festival, it is set somewhere within the […]

Stefaans Brmmer STRICT vegetarians beware – fish ingredients, although filtered out, may well be used in the brewing of your favourite beer. The “war” between South African Breweries (SAB), the largest player in the South African beer market, and the Windhoek-based Namibia Breweries, probably SAB’s most serious contender, escalated this week with SAB conceding that […]

Mail & Guardian Reporters FRANOIS PIENAAR’S agent, Zimbabwean businessman John Bredenkamp, has dismissed as “lies” the allegations that he was a top arms dealer. Bredenkamp said the Mail & Guardian in its article last week had repeated “lies” aired by Britain’s Channel 4, which broadcast a programme two years ago claiming he had conducted a […]

A secret memorandum reveals details of Project Natural, the latest weapon in the beer battle, reports Stefaans Brmmer A LEAKED internal memorandum shows how brewing giant South African Breweries (SAB) went on a near-war footing – in a multi- million rand campaign dubbed “Project Natural” – which enforces a company line on its products in […]

The new student leader aims to introduce a code of conduct that will clean up campuses, reports Joshua Amupadhi THE new president of South Africa’s leading student body is determined to end the widespread perception of his organisation as a trasher of campuses. Andile Sihlahla, elected last week to lead the South African Students’ Congress […]

Pro Sano, the third-largest medical aid scheme in the country, has run up R90- million losses and now faces serious charges of bribery and corruption. Marion Edmunds and Mungo Soggot report A TOP medical aid scheme for public servants is on the verge of collapse, racked by financial mismanagement and corruption allegedly involving leading insurance […]

Ann Eveleth THOKOZILE BASI described how she and another 200 labour tenants were evicted last week after the owner of the farm on which they were living near Weenen sold his property. “Our sons and daughters were working for the farmer and one day he told them to stay at home. Then another farmer came […]

Julian Drew THE chairman of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Evaluation Commission, Dr Thomas Bach, refused to sing the praises of Cape Town’s bid to host the 2004 Olympic Games before his departure on Tuesday. But the absence of an Ode to Joy from Bach should not set any alarm bells ringing. Bach and the […]

case… admit guilt Mungo Soggot SAFETY and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi has ordered the police to bow out of a case brought against them by three widows of the victims of the 1989 Motherwell car bomb. He has instructed them to admit guilt for planting the bomb and to make an out-of- court settlement. Mufamadi, […]

A businessman has been accused of using the presence of his friend Cyril Ramaphosa at a braai to pressure provincial officials over a valuable contract, writes Stefaans Brmmer CYRIL RAMAPHOSA has been caught in a potential wrangle between two provinces over a lucrative game park concession. Eyebrows have been raised over the outgoing African National […]