A clause in the FPJ’s trust was designed to indemnify its trustees . Justin Pearce and Pat Sidley report THE trustees of Allan Boesak’s Foundation for Peace and Justice attempted to indemnify themselves against allegations of fraud after R400 000 of Children’s Trust money had already been removed from its account into that of the […]

THEATRE: Robert Greig HYSTERIA is an impudent, sprawling, funny and splendidly perverse farce about the fantasies of Sigmund Freud. It turns the person whom WH Auden described as “a climate of opinion” into a bumbler floundering in the nets of his own theories. As with Tom and Viv, one may learn little about Freud or […]

THEATRE: Peter Frost TALK to Pieter-Dirk Uys and the phrase “hard-on” keeps coming up. Not the pelvic kind, but a theatrical response performers should be provoking in traditionally flaccid South African audiences. His new show, Bambi Sings the FAK Songs, currently filling houses Upstairs at Elaine’s in Cape Town, does just that, going straight to […]

The Democratic Party performs well in parliament but leader Tony Leon wants growth in support as well, writes Gaye Davis DEMOCRATIC Party leader Tony Leon says he was sounding a “wake-up call”, rather than a death-knell, by warning that the party’s future depended on its performance in local government elections. Leon told a public meeting […]

Far-rightwingers are planning to hold their own poll in tandem with the local government elections. Jan Taljaard reports THE far-rightwing is planning its own separate elections to be held at the time of the local government elections in October this year. True to character, however, the different factions cannot agree on whether to participate in […]

TV viewers can expect radical changes in their watching habits, writes a Weekly Mail reporter THE South African Broadcasting Corporation is thoroughly revising what viewers see on their screens and the three TV channels as we know them are likely to disappear within weeks. The current NNTV signal — which serves only metropolitan areas — […]

The presence of a Krugersdorp riot unit fanned the flames of racial tension in the violent clash at Orlando police station, writes Stefaans Brummer THE strike at Orlando East police station in Soweto last month exploded in ugly racial confrontation — and resulted in the death of a striking policeman — because of the chance […]

BY replaying his pre-election game of brinkmanship, IFP=20 leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi appears set to wage a=20 fierce campaign to win local government elections in=20 kwaZulu/Natal and ring concessions from the African=20 National Congress (ANC) in the Constitutional Assembly=20 Buthelezi has clearly kept the initiative over a lame- duck ANC in kwaZulu/Natal by announcing plans to […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift THE rightful flurry of concern which has surrounded the injury to Brian McMillan is illustrative of the immense pressures on the modern day Test cricketer. At the heart of the issue which has kept everyone on tenterhooks for the past week, is the fact convenor of the national selectors Peter Pollock has […]