Overseas acts provide all the excitement at next month’s Arts Alive festival, writes GWEN ANSELL BOLD and brassy Cuban ensemble Irakere will terrify the storks and electrify the dancers at Johannesburg’s Zoo Lake on September 8, as they kick off the popular music programme of this year’s Arts Alive Festival. Irakere, founded and led by […]
Madeleine Wackernagel In trying to bring the public service up to speed, the government has made a Faustian pact that could backfire, says one senior official in the Gauteng administration. “Only once we ran the statistics did we realise the scale of the problem. We need more money to keep the better people, which means […]
BRITAIN is not the only country wringing its hands over its performance at the Olympics. The Kenyan government plans to set up an independent commission to determine why its athletes won only one gold medal in Atlanta, the worst return since 1984. “We must go back to the drawing board and find the root cause […]
At one level it is possible to sympathise with Trevor Manuel with regard to his support for the All Blacks over the Springboks. If there is a game that conjures up the bad old days of apartheid it is rugby, a sport that tends to attract the passions of the sort of people (among others) […]
Alexander Sudheim A WELCOME change of location from the formal feel of last year’s event at the Natal Playhouse, the BAT Centre in Durban proved an inspired choice for the 1996 JPS Jazz Festival. At least 1 000 people visited on each of the three days to take in the likes of Bayete, Johnny Fourie, […]
Mungo Soggot FOR a member of the Free Market Foundation, Transnet chairman Louise Tager’s anti-privatisation stance is surprising. A glance at Tager’s curriculum vitae, supplied by Transnet, shows she has been a member of the Free Market Foundation since 1990, a trustee of the Don Caldwell Trust — another pro-privatisation group — since 1992, and […]
Parks board chair Enos Mabuza is being investigated for a farm which he bought for R6 000 and mortgaged for almost R500 000, reports Justin Arenstein RESPECTED National Parks Board chairman and former homeland leader Dr Enos Mabuza bought a farm for R6 000 from the government under allegedly irregular conditions in 1991, and mortgaged […]
Stefaans BrUmmer QUESTIONS are being asked about a foray to a plush Johannesburg shopping centre by ex-security police captain Michael Bellingan, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for the brutal murder of his wife. Bellingan — who was heavily involved in “dirty tricks” against, among others, the National Union of Metalworkers during his career […]
Dan Atkinson in London Gathering storm clouds overshadowed bumper half-year profits from diamond conglomerate De Beers this week. The sliding value of the rand and renewed uncertainty over a critical trade deal with the Russian government, combined to cast doubt on the survival of the company’s worldwide marketing cartel. Director Gary Ralfe said two weeks […]
A photograph of an award-winning artwork designed to provoke debate about the status of women has caused the deputy speaker to call for art censorship, reports Hazel Friedman The deputy speaker of the National Assembly, Baleka Kgositsile, has stirred up furious controversy in the art community with an attack on the Mail & Guardian for […]