Julian Drew AFTER staging the extremely successful world cross country championships in March, Stellenbosch once again gets the opportunity to put Cape Town’s Olympic bid on the map when it stages the Modern Pentathlon World Cup on Saturday. Olympian Claud Cloete of Cape Town, who finished 15th in Atlanta out of the 32- strong field, […]

The 1996 Southern African film festival in Harare has just drawn to a close. Andrew Worsdale was there. MOST African films suffer from the development paradigm: the funding situation gets in the way of true cinematic story- telling. Certainly the line-up of 1996 award-winners reflected such paradoxes. Most of the films were old and several […]

allegations Eddie Koch AN investigations team at the Transvaal attorney general’s office is working around the clock to probe at least 50 incidents of violence and murder in which security force generals and former Cabinet ministers have been implicated by Eugene de Kock. The barrage of allegations presented in De Kock’s testimony in the Pretoria […]

PRESSURES for the reintroduction of the death penalty in South Africa continue to rise. With something of a campaign on the issue led by the National Party, The Star claims a survey it conducted shows that 93% of the population has joined the “hang ’em high” brigade – at least to the extent that they […]

An inquiry into mine violence has lost momentum with the absence of Uwusa, report Bronwen Jones and Stuart Hess IN the week when at least 24 mineworkers were slain, fears are mounting that a major judicial inquiry into mine violence will be torpedoed by the absence of the United Workers Union of South Africa (Uwusa) […]

ART: Hazel Friedman IF there is one process with which South Africans are intimately, agonisingly familiar it is branding. Remember apartheid? You’d be hard pressed to find a more appropriate example of political cattle- branding. But the repetitive, mechanical action whereby a motif is burnt into an object as a sign of identity, ownership and […]

Angella Johnson AN investigation has been ordered into allegations by a female foreign journalist that she was sexually harassed by a member of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s office. Suzanne Daley, a correspondent on the New York Times, has made a number of allegations that Ricky Naidoo, press officer to Mbeki, attempted to sexually harass her […]

SAA is now a `global player in a global market’ and Zukile Nomvete is going to lead the airline into the 21st century, reports Max Gebhardt ZUKILE NOMVETE is working himself out of a job. If at the end of five years he is still leading the transformation of South African Airways (SAA), he believes […]

Stefaans Brmmer WHEN the National Party walked out of the African National Congress-dominated Government of National Unity earlier this year, the Afrikaner Broederbond – now called the Afrikanerbond – lost its last members in Cabinet. A body that for almost half a century had direct access to the levers of Afrikaner nationalist government power, and […]

DANCE: Thule Malgas THE international showcase on the Arts Alive dance programme, celebrated United States company Donald Byrd and The Group, was received with resounding critical acclaim. A performance highlighting the marriage of American modern dance and classical ballet opened with a send-up of Giselle, a “romantic ballet”, and had a good part of the […]