RUGBY: Jon Swift SUDDENLY, at a stroke if you like, the rugby season has taken a different slant, a different emphasis. Transvaal, the power province that the steely will and vast resources of Louis Luyt assembled and the deep insightful thinking of Kitch Christie honed to perfection in the 1993 season, have relinquished their hold […]

Meshack Mabogoane When the African Bank went through its first major scam involving forex irregularities in 1988, the Reserve Bank seconded Jack Theron, an experienced banker from Trust Bank, to take over from then-chief executive Moses Maubane. Theron’s brief was to salvage the mess, then hand the reigns back to a black chief executive. Ironically […]

Trevor Steele Taylor A FILM by the master of the “transcendental style”, Yasujiro Ozu, is one of the principal attractions of the Japanese Film Festival, at Johannesburg’s Rosebank Equinox Flower (1958), Ozu’s first colour film, is an examination of the stringent codes of morality that exist in Japanese society. A corporate businessman finds himself torn […]

After a year away from the game, Jeff Butler has returned to coach Kaizer Chiefs SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe WITH eight weeks to go before the end of the season, the deadline for the registration of players in NSL teams has come and gone. Kaizer Chiefs were reported to be interested in the services of Ernest […]

Stephanie Dippenaar NATIONAL Party cabinet ministers Pik Botha and Dawie de Villiers appear to be on a collision course over strip mining in the Northern Province’s environmentally sensitive Madimbo corridor. While the Department of Mineral and Energy Affairs, for which Botha is the responsible minister, issued a prospecting permit to a diamond-mining company in May, […]

Louise Flanagan THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has admitted destroying weapons used in the Umtata raid two years ago, in what the victim’s families have called an attempt to conceal vital evidence. Five youths aged 12 to 17, died when troops of the old South African Defence Force (SADF) attacked the Umtata home […]

Best-dressed-man and choral singing competitions bring a glimpse of glamour into the lives of Jeppe’s migrant workers, writes JUSTIN PEARCE THE eastern end of Johannesburg’s central business district — the part between the escort agencies and the car-spares dealers — is not famous for its night life. Yet in the small hours of every Sunday […]

DANCE: Stanley Peskin PACT Dance Company’s Horizons is essentially South African in its landscape, in its use of choreographers and in its subject-matter. In Candice Johnstone’s Link, her use of six dancers as man-apes does not touch a sensitive chord. I was more aware of devolution than evolution in the ballet’s structure: perhaps this was […]