Ivor Powell IT was, of course, a set-up for censorship in the first place. Approached by the Vita Art Now selection panel to participate in their annual showpiece exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, artist Kendell Geers put forward three works. One was uncontentious, a red overall to be positioned where the hanging committee saw […]
Thomas Equinus was for many years the readers’ favourite anachronism, a horse-racing column for people who knew nothing about horse racing.
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin IN Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance (1893), Mrs Arbuthnot turns out to be of considerable importance to Lord Illingworth: she is the mother of his illegitimate son. In A Man of No Importance, a country house near London is replaced by Dublin and instead of the gentry, all the characters […]
IT took three days of court argument, three-and-a-half months of deliberation and 244 pages of opinion for the Constitutional Court to re-establish the sanctity of life in South Africa by declaring invalid the death penalty. This week’s decision is a major break from the past. It brings to an end South Africa’s long-standing dominance of […]
Philippa Garson describes a typical working day in Alexandra’s ‘Beruit’ in April 1992.
‘IT is not for the President to determine whether or not the ANC was justified in its action on the day in question, whatever his personal feelings on the issue might be.” — Tony Leon (DP) ”We are dealing here with a President who, having made his statement in the Senate, has demonstrated to us […]
Jean-Pierre Rossouw MOVEABLE FEAST SOME cities are weatherless. You can safely guess that the sun will set on a clear sky and rise again on the same spotless horizon. Not so in Cape Town. Here seasons have their own personalities, each of them distinct. So when a restaurant sets out a menu that tries to […]
Nearly three decades of sanctions and boycotts will have ended as Cape Town artist Malcolm Payne unveils his piece for the Venice Biennale.
HILTON JUDIN is a young architect who has set out to undermine the foundations of his profession. What drives him is the knowledge he was obliged to confront when doing research into low-cost housing in South Africa. What he saw as he worked his way through the archives of the locations and townships was the […]
In the wake of our report last week on South Africa’s close relationship with Indonesia, Simon Ratcliffe says there should be even greater concern over our relations with Sudan Between October 1990 and September 1992 I lived and worked in Khartoum, Sudan, for the United Nations Development Programme. I was witness to acts of extreme […]