Sibusiso Nxumalo THE much-anticipated performance of London-based dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson with The African Axemen in Johannesburg has been called off. While a poetry reading session and workshop are scheduled to go ahead as part of the Arts Alive festival, the Jamaican-born Johnson has cancelled the one-off concert on the grounds that he only […]

Openness appears to be anathema to those in the process of appointing our Constitutional Court judges, writes Dennis Davis ALL things considered, the shortlist of 25 lawyers made public by the Judicial Services Commission last week is impressive. In preparing its list of Constitutional Court nominees (after each is interviewed, the JSC will choose 10, […]

FINE ART: James Garner IT isn’t often in Cape Town that you get to see an exhibition devoted almost entirely to photographic works, let alone to photographs by women. Yet the success of Photo Works by Women, at the South African Association of Arts, can be put down to more than just politically-correct expediency. Curator […]

Weekly Mail Reporter FORMER security policeman Michael Bellingan has been charged with the murder of his first wife, Janine Bellingan, acting Transvaal attorney general Chris Human said on Thursday. He said extradition proceedings would be launched against Bellingan if he failed to return to South Africa of his own accord. It was also possible Bellingan […]

Weekly Mail Reporter MILL and bakery owner Sam Molope is the first beneficiary of the United States trade drive into South Africa. The US Trade & Development Agency is providing a $40 000 grant to finance a feasibility study by Ga- Rankuwa Milling into the building of a flour mill in North-West province. Ga-Rankuwa Milling […]

Best Fiction Film, Best Documentary — even Most Courageous Film … Prizes are up for grabs in this years Short Film Competition, writes Trevor Steele-Taylor THE annual Mail & Guardian/ Fawo Short Film Competition, which accompanies the Mail & Guardian Film Festival (now the South African International Film Festival), is entering its sixth, bumper year. […]

Jan Taljaard reports on this weeks bizarre Pretoria murder trial of two young white supremacists IT had all the ingredients of a larger-than-life suspense thriller: a gang of youthful revolutionaries; a two-month crime spree which veered between arms thefts from military bases and cold-blooded murders in which people were slaughtered like sheep; a car chase […]

Steuart Wright THREE young elephants recently relocated to the Knysna forest are restless and somewhat aggressive in their new home — particularly since theyve been moved to a new, larger enclosure. District forest officer Theo Stehle said the behaviour of the young cows had raised some concern that they were not yet ready to be […]

HANDBALL: Julian Drew SOUTH AFRICA’S first international handball competition, and reputedly the biggest women’s international club handball tournament ever staged, reached a thrilling climax last weekend when Djordje Petrov from Macedonia met surprise finalists Douka from Greece in Johannesburg. With the mere mention of the word Macedonia currently inducing a severe case of the jitters […]

Jacques Magliolo THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s tougher attitude in cleaning up our bourse is becoming more evident in the number of companies being delisted and suspended from trading. Between June 1993 and June this year 30 companies were taken off the JSE boards and a host of others could face a similar fate. In addition […]