Despite the process of reconciliation, there are=20 obviously judges who are struggling to break out of the=20 old mould, writes Dennis Davis IT could surely not have been expected that there would=20 be unanimous enthusiasm for the decision by the=20 Constitutional Court that the death penalty was=20 unconstitutional. But for a sitting judge of the=20 […]
The Le Bourget Air Show in Paris is the meeting place=20 of governments, military men and high-tech innovation.=20 Stefaans Brummer attended this year’s show THE fashion this summer at Le Bourget, Paris: designer=20 suits, shades and cellphones, but very few skirts. The=20 Russians, of course, go for grimy anoraks, while the=20 South Africans stand the […]
A new chain of bookshops is due to start up soon, with its first stores in the Gauteng area. Shaun de Waal A NEW bookshop chain is to open in South Africa, run by three former employees of Exclusive Books. To be called Facts & Fiction, it is just getting off the ground, with the […]
Ann Eveleth The Wildlife Society of Southern Africa has called for the creation of an environmental court to hear cases involving environmental disputes. Wildlife Society representative Jeremy Ridl, who made the submission to the first public hearing of the KwaZulu/Natal Constitutional Committee in Durban this week, said the multi-faceted nature of environmental disputes requires people […]
Kiri Te Kanawa is visiting South Africa at the height of her ability to draw crowds. Coenraad Visser reports IT was with a sense of relief that one greeted Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at her first encounter with the press shortly after her arrival in Johannesburg. She currently limits her public appearances to about 18 […]
With three weeks to go, HUMPHREY TYLER begins the countdown to the Grahamstown Festival of the Arts RELAX. If you are going to the Standard Bank National Arts Festival next month, you won’t have to walk under step- ladders. Grahamstown will be ready for you. The staff in the Monument building no longer go to […]
Movable Feast Humphrey Tyler THE first thing you do when you arrive at the Imperial Hotel in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu/Natal is wonder why on earth you didn’t bring your horse. This has nothing to do with the food. It is the early colonial atmosphere. (Actually, I don’t ride horses. Horses give me hay fever.) But […]
BALLET: Stanley Peskin IN Marius Petipa’s Paquita, Roland Petit’s Carmen and Mikhail Fokine’s Firebird, Pact Ballet presents three works that are luxurious and richly satisfying in quite different Paquita (1881), originally a three-act ballet which has survived as a series of divertissements, has been given a new production. An impressively ornamented archway (designed by Riaan […]
The Life Offices Associations’ Paul Truyens responds to Cheryl Carolus’ criticisms of the industry’s policy on HIV testing THE insurance industry is very aware of the whole issue surrounding Aids and the plight of HIV positive people. In order to put the industry’s dilemma into perspective though, it is necessary to go back to the […]
In the hardest game, a soft voice of seasoned humanity shines through: Eddie Futch is 83 and still punching his BOXING: Kevin Mitchell A LITTLE over a month after he accompanies Riddick Bowe to the ring for his world heavyweight title fight against Jorge Luis Gonzales in Las Vegas on June 17, Eddie Futch will […]