CHILDREN’S THEATRE: Di Mannie A VISIT to the Johannesburg Youth Theatre is fast becoming=20 synonymous with holiday entertainment, each production having=20 its own blend of humour and surprise. For The Emperor’s=20 Nightingale, the main room (or theatre) in this romantic old=20 house has been “turned sideways”, using the length of the room=20 to present the […]
MORE than 54 000 tickets have been sold on the main=20 programme of the Grahamstown Arts Festival. The most popular=20 shows, predictably, are Faustus in Africa, The Island and My=20 Plunge to Fame. Ticket sales for the Fringe are up from last year=20 with more than 15 shows sold out, including last year’s hugely=20 popular […]
How did South Africa’s most popular singer end up a sad, semi-destitute occupant of a seedy Hillbrow hotel? Hazel Friedman traces the decline and fall of Brenda Fassie DRUG abuse is not the sole cause of the decline and fall of Brenda Fassie. She suffers from a much deeper malaise: loneliness. It was drugs which, […]
Keith Harper in London Plans to build a 600- to 800-seat “super jumbo” have been put on=20 hold until next year because of high costs and lack of demand. Boeing and its four European partners this week confirmed the=20 technical feasibility of the scheme, which has been developed over=20 two years, but said: “Market studies […]
FORMER security policeman Greg Deegan this week wrote a poignant and hard-hitting letter to the Mail & Guardian, expressing the fury of the apartheid “footsoldiers” whose generals have run for cover. This is his letter: I was a member of the South African Police Security Branch and stationed for the major part of my service […]
THERE’S a popular game in town and everyone’s playing it. It’s called baseball, but instead of hitting balls, participants are hitting rocks of cooked cocaine. There’s nothing new about freebasing cocaine, or batting, as it’s commonly called. But, in the past, it was a sport confined to the very rich and the very foolish. But […]
Mick Cleary on the unique appeal of Wimbledon,=20 the tournament which is=20 an enduring love affair=20 WHAT image do you take away from Wimbledon — a bucket of=20 sweat or a bowl of strawberries? As serve after serve crashed into=20 the parched turf over the opening nine days, reducing play to a=20 sequence of one-hit […]
Stefaans Brummer FORMER police chief General Johan van der Merwe this week hit back at the Goldstone Commission for linking him to “criminal and despicable” police actions before the elections, charging Judge Goldstone with “the rape of the most basic principles of human rights”. Van der Merwe, who retired as police commissioner in March this […]
‘Papa’ de Klerk is the hero of the National Party youth. Marion Edmunds attended their weekend conference and found a vibrant, energetic collection of New Nats ‘You’re simply the best,” screamed Tina Turner as National Party leader, “Papa” de Klerk, stepped off the stage into the arms of excited members of the Jeug Aksie. Bodyguards […]
Anne Eveleth Local affiliates of a US-based property group have joined forces with police to fingerprint young children in schools and shopping centres around the country. Welcomed by the South African Police Services as a “proactive measure” to help locate missing children, and lauded by the Electronic Realty Associates (ERA) as a “community service”, the […]