Censorship under the new Constitution is to face its first major challenge as Hustler magazine loses patience with the Publications Control Board’s approach to what may or may not be displayed, reports Justin South Africa’s dinosaur censorship legislation is to face its first challenge in the Constitutional Court when Hustler magazine contests the banning of […]

TELEVISION: Justin Pearce ‘WE’LL be okay as long as we stay in the light,” insists FBI Agent Dana Scully — a trifle optimistically, perhaps, as she cowers beneath the guttering lightbulb connected to a generator that’s about to run out of petrol in the middle of the night in an impenetrable forest inhabited by swarming […]

Jacques Magliolo reports on the latest two firms to come to Adding to this year’s spate of listings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange were German chemical giant Hoechst and Eastern Cape-based Sovereign Foods Investments. The market capitalisation — issued shares multiplied by the share price — amount to R322-million, boosting the R80-billion already added in […]

Reg Rumney Like decrepit old age, the end of a marriage through death or divorce is painful to contemplate, but in the long run it could be more painful not to contemplate it. That is where a booklet such as Options at Marriage, recently published by insurance giant Old Mutual, comes in. The booklet spells […]

MPs’ criticism of the Department of Foreign Affairs has provoked an extraordinary reaction from Rusty Evans, writes Rehana Rossouw IN an unprecedented broadside by a civil servant on parliament, Foreign Affairs Director General Rusty Evans has attacked criticism of his department from MPs as an effort to “discredit and destroy the political leadership and the […]

OPERETTA AND CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser NOT even intelligent direction and two sterling individual performances can elevate Pact Opera’s production of Lehar’s The Merry Widow above the barely ordinary. Johan Spies directs the central characters with a sure hand to make their actions motivated and believable, a tall order in this often silly work. In […]

THEATRE: David le Page THE spirit of Roy Campbell currently haunts the Alexander Theatre, in writer and director Anthony Akerman’s play Dark Outsider. But it is not the robust and extravagant ghost we might expect. In the second act Uys Krige, played charmingly by Alex Ferns, hails in a splendid bon mot the experience of […]

Justin Pearce A CIVIL suit against the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela and Cyril Ramaphosa arising from last year’s Shell House shootings has been stalled on the grounds that the applicant’s arguments were too vague. Masele Ndlovu, whose husband was shot dead in Johannesburg on March 28 1994, has brought the suit to seek compensation […]

WITH regard to your two excellent articles (M&G May 12 to18), “Abortion — A Test for Women’s Rights” and “Miscarriage of Justice”. It is estimated that over 200,000 illegal abortions are performed in South Africa each year — many of which are unsafe and even result in death. Three black women die every day due […]

Sam Ramsamy is likely to be invited to become a member of the IOC — a just reward for his long battle against racism in sport, writes Julian Drew ON a weekend when the Springboks and All Blacks will be battling it out for the right to face each other in next Saturday’s Rugby World […]