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 […]
Marion Edmunds=20 THE National Party has a strategy to solve this=20 coming week’s fight with the ANC over local=20 government legislation. Talk of the strategy makes=20 Nats smile, but they’re not going to show their=20 hand yet.=20 Parliament meets in a special session next week to=20 debate the Local Government Transition Amendment=20 Bill, a move […]
Pop/Rock: Malu van Leuuwen IF the name The Springbok Nude Girls conjures up images of nubile strip-artists decked out in cheeky cheerleading outfits in the old green and gold — think again. In fact, the name belongs to an all-male, five- piece band based in Stellenbosch where, in the band’s early days, half their audience […]
Theatre: David Le Page ‘THE (previous) South African government was my faithful scriptwriter,” says Pieter-Dirk Uys in his Truth Commissions (at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre), and his brand of satire has not been left unscathed by its demise. Much of his latest parade of personas, led as always by the inimitable Ms Bezuidenhout, is not […]
Small-scale mining operations find it difficult to tunnel a path into South Africa’s mainstream mining industry, reports Meshack Mabogoane Attempts by small and medium enterprises (SMMEs) to carve a significant niche in the mining and minerals sector are fraught with such minefields that “constructive intervention” by the government may be more necessary to level the […]
Classical Music: Coenraad Visser AFTER the drought, the deluge. For too long was it rare for overseas string quartets to visit South Africa. Then, within a space of three days, two of the leading United Kingdom-based quartets appeared in the Wits Great Hall in Johannesburg. Interestingly, their performing styles could not have contrasted more sharply. […]