Handel’s Messiah is a ‘fitting celebration of the South=20 African experience’, says Lord Yehudi Menuhin, who will=20 be conducting this work in Johannesburg tonight. Coenraad=20 Visser reports WHEN Lord Yehudi Menuhin is ushered into a crowded press=20 room hours after his arrival in South Africa this week,=20 his slight physical stature takes one by surprise. […]

You have to hand it to Winnie Mandela. She is unmatched for fighting power. Not only is she back on her feet and fighting back when everyone had counted her out, but she seems to be stronger than ever. She is the Mohammed Ali of the ANC, though Ali limited himself to three returns to […]

Pat Sidley THE old boys’ club of the church’s anti-apartheid movement had a celebration this week — to acknowledge Beyers Naude’s 80th birthday. At the celebration, which took place near Sharpeville, the World Council of Churches, South African Council of Churches and All Africa Council of Churches indulged what the human memory does best — […]

The violence that devastated kwaZulu/Natal in the early Nineties had a sequel in court as KZP members revealed their role in the killings. Ann Eveleth reports PART 1 THE year is 1992. The ANC has been unbanned for almost two years. Political activists have emerged from the underground. Labour union activity is in high gear, […]

The textile industry will have to shift up a gear if it=20 is to cope against foreign competition, reports Jacques=20 THE scrapping of import surcharges in last week’s Budget=20 tolls the death knell for protectionism and import=20 substitution, destroying a complacent way of life for=20 South African industrialists and manufacturers alike. While the scrapping of […]

GOLF: Terry Dennis NOT completely satisfied with establishing himself as the=20 world’s number one golfer, Nick Price is planning to=20 achieve something that has been beyond the reach of the=20 all-time golfing greats from Byron Nelson through to=20 Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. For all of their success, none of them ever quite got=20 round […]

Now well into his 70s, painter Robert Hodgins is still=20 to surprise his audience — and himself. He spoke to Ivor=20 IT is at least as exhilarating as it is ironic that=20 painter Robert Hodgins is finally, as the term has it,=20 ”arriving” — what with a New York dealer having bought=20 nine of the […]

Defence Minister Joe Modise has a lot on his plate. So let us help him get his priorities straight. Let him release immediately the Military Intelligence files on Anton Lubowski to prove their claim that the assassinated Namibian advocate was indeed an informer. The mystery surrounding the slain advocate and senior Swapo member has gone […]

THEATRE: Digby Ricci ‘I DECIDED to write a work that should depart from the=20 trodden path, make a stir, and reverberate on this earth=20 after my demise,” Pierre-Ambroise-Fran=8Dois Choderlos de=20 Laclos famously declared of his chilling, profound=20 epistolary novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, but even this=20 truly prophetic and insightful author could never have=20 predicted the […]

DANCE: Stanley Peskin THE first season staged by the excellent Pact Dance=20 Company this year features one new ballet (Susan=20 Abraham’s Heritage) and two familiar works (Robyn Orlin’s=20 As Fall Women, So Fall Women and Christopher Kindo’s Me=20 and You). Orlin’s work has at its centre three duets which explore=20 the relationship of women to […]