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, […]
Chiefs choose the cash over loyalty to IFP leader=20 Mangosuthu Buthelezi, but the lure of parliamentary=20 payment is stronger, write Mehlo Mvelase and Ann=20 T HE Inkatha Freedom Party has pledged an all-out=20 battle to halt the implementation of the controversial=20 Renumeration of Traditional Leaders Act passed in=20 Parliament last week, but rumblings on the […]
New Africa Investments chairman Nthato Motlana=20 has told South Africans to knuckle down to work to=20 convince investors that the country is a worthwhile=20 place to put their money, reports Karen Harverson New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) chairman Dr=20 Nthato Motlana has urged South Africans to stop toyi- toyiing and work to convince foreign investors […]
The RDP Appearance: Jelly-like. Difficult to get a grip on, but=20 easy to mould into anything you want. Not to be confused with: The Reach for a Dream Project.=20 The Reconstruction and Development Programme is also a=20 warehouse of our hopes, but it promises much more than=20 a trip to Disneyland or a Hot Air […]
Simon Segal finds South African service standards will=20 not cope with an Olympic influx of tourists THE Rugby World Cup (RWC) provided the first major=20 opportunity to rate South Africa’s service standards.=20 The result is less than spectacular. Sid Cohn, a consultant who teaches at the Wits Business=20 School, surveyed 400 local and 400 foreign […]
Rhoda Kadalie argues that the anti-abortion arguments=20 of Christian fundamentalists are biblically unsound THE march to Parliament in the last week of May was not=20 only to protest against the exclusion of the words=20 ”Almighty God” in the final Constitution, and the=20 liberalisation of the Constitution with regard to=20 abortion, pornography and prostitution — it […]
Scurvy, an exhibition at Cape Town’s Castle, penetrates=20 the heart of that archetypal symbol of colonial=20 authority, writes NEVILLE DUBOW INTERESTING things are happening in the Cape Town=20 Castle. Currently it is the site of an outbreak of=20 Scurvy. Its pathology is concerned not so much with=20 tenderness of the gums, but a subcutaneous eruption […]
Andre van Zyl=20 Aircraft manufacturers’ eyes are on South African=20 Airways (SAA) as it prepares to announce details within=20 the next two months of its billion-dollar fleet=20 SAA’s Leon Els said aircraft manufacturers Airbus=20 Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas have put=20 forward written proposals for what they saw as the=20 ideal fleet composition for the […]
ONE expected fierce debate to arise out of a push from=20 the Conference of Editors to strengthen the freedom of=20 speech clause in the Constitution.=20 Editors have argued that this clause does not have the=20 level of protection of other fundamental rights, making=20 it too vulnerable to dilution in the future. In the=20 interim Bill […]