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 […]

THEATRE: Justin Pearce T O call Athol Fugard’s People are Living There a=20 classic of South African theatre is the kind of cliche=20 that ought to condemn a reviewer to a diet of children’s=20 plays for the rest of eternity. So I won’t. However, People are Living There is a fine enough play to=20 deserve […]

Pat Sidley Despite difficulties which will become more evident when the provincial budgets are announced and debated in the coming weeks, and a presentation which many regard as “messy”, the budget presented this week in parliament is designed to begin the process of redressing wrongs. Not only has a larger proportion of the budget than […]

Jacques Magliolo WHILE local stores-listed companies fight for market=20 share on South African soil, there is a universal trend=20 for retailers to become world players. The Americans,=20 Asians and Europeans have suddenly realised the=20 advantages of the global village and they intend to=20 make the most of its conveniences. Everyone has heard of easy access […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin THE brilliantly coloured and designed credit titles for=20 High Heels (1991) are shots of high-heeled shoes which=20 in the film come to be associated with the world of=20 fashion and show business, as well as with=20 impersonation and performance. These are replaced with=20 shots of revolvers, and so murder and mayhem are=20 […]

Estimated expenditure for the Office of the President,=20 which includes President Nelson Mandela’s salary,=20 amounts to R16,3-million, an increase of R272000 from=20 last year, according to the 1995/96 Budget. Expenditure for the office of Deputy President Thabo=20 Mbeki is estimated at R8,8-million, a decrease of R1,2=20 million. Expenditure for the office of Second Deputy=20 President […]

This week, the Weekly Mail & Guardian presents a simple lesson in how to prevent corruption among Members of Parliament and provincial legislatures. We publish below the ANC’s Code of Conduct, which sets out the rules the organisation has set down in a bid to prevent its members from being corrupted. Much has been said […]

Native tongue Bafana Khumalo It was that time of the evening when one can glare at the boss and waltz out of the office and the glare is followed by a smug smile that says: “This time is mine and there is nothing you can do about it. For the next couple of hours I […]

Pace against power in the loose forwards is a question=20 that will be highlighted in the Super 10 clash between=20 Transvaal and Western Province RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE can be little doubt that Transvaal have already=20 taken on the look — and demonstrated the drive in=20 patches — of this country’s preeminent provincial=20 Despite what […]