Rainbow volk It really was a motley collection of organisations that=20 came forward to represent the volk at their meeting=20 with Nelson Mandela last week — they ranged from the=20 Verkennersbeweging to Dames Aktueel and Jong Dames=20 Dinamiek, and from the Vereniging van Oranjewerkers to=20 the SA Voetplaat-Personeel Vereniging. What interested=20 the manne in the […]

The products may not be warm or comfortable, but=20 Hardwear is finding a growing market for clothes made=20 of scrap. MALU VAN LEEUWEN reports AFTER four years of obscurity, the curious products of=20 a Cape Town partnership are suddenly getting plenty of=20 attention. Hardwear (real names Michelle Vyncke and=20 Chris du Toit) is a small […]

The parliamentary ethics subcommittee is divided=20 over MPs’ outside financial interests, write=20 Eddie Koch and Marion Edmunds STRONG pressure for South African MPs to continue=20 earning lucrative salaries on top of their pay from=20 Parliament is coming from inside an ethics subcommittee=20 set up to devise rules on the controversial issue. Six of nine MPs […]

Producer and promoter David Marks will be ‘coming home’=20 when he takes the stage in Grahamstown. PETER RORVIK=20 THAT veteran mover and shaker of the South African=20 music industry, David Marks, trades backstage for=20 centre stage this month when he performs a collection=20 of his songs at the Grahamstown festival. Well known as a recorder, […]

Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom, with the aid of=20 some sharp advisers from non-government organisations,=20 has had an uncanny run of success in dealing with an=20 issue that some have called the country’s seismic fault=20 — one that threatens those who dare to cross it with=20 tremors from both the left and right. But indications […]

Anne Eveleth South Africa’s first 24-hour Aids care centre has=20 opened in Durban, marking the culmination of five=20 months of determined effort by a dozen people whose=20 lives have been directly affected by the virus. The Durban Aids Care Centre aims to provide a “friendly=20 service” to the Aids and HIV community — and hopes […]

Gaye Davis DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki has pledged that a woman=20 will be first choice to fill any minister’s or deputy=20 minister’s post that becomes vacant in future. Mbeki made the commitment when addressing women from=20 NGOs countrywide, who gathered at Midrand last weekend=20 in preparation for a global forum on women, which=20 starts in […]

A Goldstone report urging action against police ‘dirty=20 tricks’ was never released by president FW de Klerk.=20 Stefaans Brummer and Eddie Koch report THE Mail & Guardian today publishes a secret Goldstone=20 Commission report, sent to former President FW de Klerk=20 weeks before the April 27 election, and which urged=20 immediate action to “neutralise” police […]

BALLET: Stanley Peskin I DO not wish to attribute any intentions to Veronica=20 Paeper and her version of Spartacus, but any real=20 interest her ballet has belongs more to the influence=20 of Cecil B de Mille than to either the Bolshoi=20 (strictly socialist realism) or Howard Fast (liberal=20 humanist). What Pact Ballet presents is Paeper […]

Trevor Steele-Taylor THE 17th Durban International Film Festival, which=20 opens its doors this Sunday, celebrates both the=20 centenary of world film and the anniversary of a=20 democratic South Africa. In line with the declining=20 state of local cinema, however, it is the international=20 arena which is better represented. Opening with Antonia Bird’s much praised Priest, […]