Arts and Culture Minister Ben Ngubane responds to allegations in last week’s M&G that he knew about a secret ‘slush fund’ Hazel Friedman’s article, “How much did Ngubane know about secret funds?” (M&G March 29 to April 3) raises two issues of concern regarding my relations with Pact (Performing Arts Council of Transvaal). The first […]
Lucienne Fild in Windhoek FOLLOWING weeks of acrimonious debate, the controversial book about Swapo’s abuse of detainees, German clergyman Siegfried Groth’s Namibia: The Wall of Silence, was released at the weekend. The book’s revelations have threatened Namibia’s reconciliation process and calls have been made for a South African- style truth commission. Members of the public […]
BALLET: Stanley Peskin ‘Fairy lands are fearsome too.” This line by Salman Rushdie seems to me to summarise the especial attraction that Swan Lake continues to exert after more than a hundred years in the ballet repertoire. In this great work, classical purity of line is transfigured into a means of passionate inventiveness and expression. […]
Labour’s controversial proposals have pitted it against business, write Jacquie Golding- Duffy and Madeleine Wackernagel Labour and business were in direct conflict this week with the release of labour’s proposals on growth, development and job creation. The document says “hard choices” have to be made by the economic elite if social equity is to be […]
Eddie Koch The Truth and Reconciliation Commission this week faced challenges on three fronts just as it was gearing up to hear applications for amnesty later this month from agents who committed human rights abuses in the apartheid era. Firstly, the families of four murdered activists announced they will launch a Constitutional Court application for […]
By drafting all the top players into their teams, Australia and New Zealand are using the Super 12 competition as national trials RUGBY: Jon Swift TO the average New Zealander, defeat for the All Blacks in a Test series assumes the same sort of hysteria that the ovine form of mad cow disease would engender […]
New sponsors and new faces will greet cricket fans at the start of next season CRICKET: Jon Swift IN sport, very much as in life but in an abbreviated and upfront way, one year past brings with it the inevitable promise of the 12 months ahead. So it is with South African cricket. The game […]
Ann Eveleth The air force flights of former defence minister Magnus Malan and his co-accused in the Durban Supreme Court murder trial are saving the state about R7 000 each weekend, according to a South African Airways (SAA) estimate. South African National Defence Force (SANDF) spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Margie Neethling confirmed the fuel and maintenance costs […]
The play: Much Ado About Nonsense Cast: Makgoba, Van Onselen, Davis, Pityana, et al Verdict: New cast, old script. A political farce in two instances Critic: Frederik van Zyl Slabbert It is necessary to put this two-act political farce into the proper perspective. It was performed at smaller, lesser-known venues (I know that universities and […]
Ann Eveleth King Goodwill Zwelithini wants South African taxpayers to finance an extensive new royal bureaucracy to help him woo KwaZulu-Natal’s traditional leaders out of the political quagmire he led them into during decades of submission to Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi. A royal budget proposal handed to former Provincial and Constitutional Affairs Minister […]