<B>CINEMA:</B><B> DEATH AND THE MAIDEN</B>
Jonathan Romney speaks to director Roman Polanski, whose new film is released this week.
<B>FINE ART: </B>The Artists’ Proof Studio, reviewed by Ian Tromp.
Despite the recent strikes, local industrial unrest is on the decline, reports Meshack Mabogoane Though the latest nurses’ and municipal workers’ strikes have unleashed intense emotions and caused public disturbances, this year’s figures show industrial unrest to be at its lowest in five years. “The impression of industrial chaos is more a reaction to the […]
BOE manoeuvres into the international finance market with new partner NatWest. Lynda Loxton reports After keeping the market guessing about its intentions for more than a year, Board of Executors (BOE) has unveiled an innovative scheme that instantly plugs it into one of the world’s leading finance and investment groups. The tie-up with Britain’s National […]
Peter Vale writes that the clash between gay people=20 and President Mugabe showed that civil society can=20 play a powerful role in Southern Africa=20 WHEN Robert Mugabe savaged the common law rights of=20 gays, he may well have initiated a geological shift=20 in the regional balance of power.=20 In the wake of his comments, South […]
Marion Edmunds=20 GOVERNMENT anthropologist Jan van Wyk is in a=20 quandary over who should be South Africa’s real=20 traditional leaders: “The definition of ‘leader’ is=20 easy, but ‘traditional’ creates more problems.=20 Basically, I think it’s about handing over the=20 goods, the values and culture from the past=20 generation to the present.”=20 That definition is not, […]
Rowan Callaghan Bayathenga 2000 has joined the call for increased local content, only this time the issue is not broadcasting but support for locally manufactured goods. Bayathenga — meaning all the people are buying — is a section 21 company which plans to embark on a massive “buy South Africa” campaign to promote increased support […]
The International Rugby Board has finally opened the door to professionalism, but it has also left the door open for amateurism RUGBY: Jon Swift YOU can’t help feeling that the International Rugby Board (IRB) has done yet again what history shows it to have done best … dither. Certainly, the latest set of guidelines — […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift WHO would have imagined on that tumultous day Francois Pienaar held the William Webb Ellis trophy aloft at Ellis Park that the domestic competition could have come close to matching it in intensity? Few would have chanced a wager on it. And yet we have been graced with just such a domestic […]
Peter Vale argues the Comoros coup shows the time=20 has come for the government to expunge the=20 mercenary impulse from South African national life=20 THE proverbial fly on the foreign affairs wall must=20 have raised a wry smile when news of the Comoros=20 coup came rattling over the wire. “Hello, we’ve=20 been here before,” it […]