THEATRE: Guy Willoughby THE honeymoon is over, and a year down the line all of us=20 voters — the slapgatte as well as the sentient — should=20 start subjecting the new political order to sharp scrutiny.=20 That’s the premise of You ANC Nothing Yet, Pieter-Dirk Uys’=20 fine new revue at Cape Town’s Dock Road Theatre, […]
Restaurants are just like the theatre, says Robert Colman,=20 whose latest play is all about eating. Matthew Krouse=20 AS a two-year work-in-progress reaches fruition, Robert=20 Colman — author and director of Afrodizzia, at the=20 Johannesburg Civic Theatre — reflects on the times and=20 traumas that formed his fantastical farce about food. The idea of setting […]
The IMF has forecast a drop in South Africa’s growth rate=20 for this year, reports Reg Rumney International Monetary Fund economists have cut their=20 forecast for South Africa’s growth rate for the 1995=20 calendar year by half a percentage point because of=20 drought. This was revealed at a press seminar held in=20 Windhoek by the […]
The death of veteran anti-apartheid activist Yusef Cachalia was a “great personal blow,” President Nelson Mandela said this week. Cachalia, who had been ill for some time, died on Tuesday at the age of 80. Mandela said he and Cachalia had been friends since the ANC veteran Walter Sisulu said he and Cachalia, who had […]
SOCCER: Gerald Combrinck MORE or less a year ago in a packed and highly emotional=20 Ellis Park Stadium more than 50 000 South Africans=20 experienced possibly the greatest moment in their lives. Having been inaugurated just hours earlier as South=20 Africa’s first democratic president, Nelson Mandela’s first=20 official assignment was to watch the national soccer […]
The Government of National Unity is faced with a litmus test of its commitment to gender rights: whether to change existing abortion legislation for a “freedom of choice” Bill proposed by pro-choice activists, medical and legal An ad hoc parliamentary committee is considering submissions on abortion from all sectors of the community and the anti-choice […]
Kader Asmal, the Minister of Water Affairs, has entered the debate on the controversial plan for a steelmill at Langebaan. Eddie Koch and Rehana Rossouw report WATER Affairs Minister Kader Asmal wants a “total reassessment” of the impact that Iscor’s proposed steel mill will have on the ecology of the Langebaan lagoon — and will […]
Jacques Magliolo Nervousness among smaller stockbrokers was highlighted this=20 week by Frankel Pollak Vinderine’s (FPV) takeover of Hayes=20 Cutten & Co, a stockbroking firm which concentrates on=20 futures trading. Hayes Cutten & Co’s John Cutten says the move was prompted=20 largely by the changes likely to materialise with the=20 imminent deregulation process which the JSE […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin HOLLYWOOD has enshrined famous composers in romantic=20 titles: Chopin in Song to Remember; Brahms and Schumann in=20 Song of Love; Liszt in Song Without End and now Beethoven=20 in Immortal Beloved. But perhaps the chief influences on=20 writer/director Bernard Rose are Peter Shaffer and Milos=20 Forman, whose film about Mozart was called […]
A SERIES of spats between officials of the Northern and Eastern Transvaal governments over who has the right to administer the Bushbuckridge area, a tract of land that straddles the two provinces, could escalate into a mini- border war involving two strong ANC regions. The premiers of each province agreed last year that the territory […]