With Dance Umbrella under way, HAZEL FRIEDMAN speaks to the grande dame of choreography, Sylvia Glasser CHOREOGRAPHERS, dancers and audiences at this year’s FNB Vita Dance Umbrella have all been asking: where is Sylvia Glasser? Though the veteran choreographer has not presented an individual performance under her Moving into Dance rubric, she has been visible […]
Dennis Davis criticised the Human Rights Committee; the chairman responded by calling him a racist. Now Davis asks why a man in this position uses hate speech SPEECH characterises our humanity. It is fundamental to the development of a community. But speech can be employed to exclude targeted individuals or groups from participation, or even […]
Agricultural output could account for a quarter of this year’s economic growth, reports Simon Segal THE most recent estimates from South African Agriculture Union economist Koos du Toit are that the good rains should see a 20% rise in the gross value of farm output this year to R35- billion (R28,9-billion was realised in 1995). […]
IT is with great relief that the country learns of the clean bill of health given to President Nelson Mandela by Johannesburg’s Park Lane clinic. Rarely can a people — indeed the world — have wished for the good health and long life of an individual with as much fervour as in the case of […]
Politics The ANC’s united front over Sarafina II begins to crack Jacquie Golding-Duffy and Justin Pearce The scandal over the Sarafina II Aids play is threatening to escalate yet further with indications that the production may not have been financed by the European Union, but by the Ministry of Health. The development comes amid signs […]
Up for investigation is M-Net’s legal right to two channels, writes Jacquie Golding-Duffy The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) will conduct an investigation into M-Net’s possession of two channels later this year. Together with SABC’s three channels, M-Net channels have limited the ability of the IBA to open up the airwaves. The pay channel’s open time […]
TELVISION: Hazel Friedman IF the SABC archives contained a special section filed under MO for Missed Opportunities, Rhythms and Rights would probably occupy pride of place. Commissioned by the SABC as part of its local-content drive, this made-for-the-RDP dramatised documentary series is brimming with potential. Yet less than five weeks into this 13-part television series, […]
Gaye Davis AS medical investigations wound their way this week to the predictable conclusion that President Nelson Mandela was fitter than most men of his age, a sense of crisis infused the presidency as the realisation dawned that the question of who will succeed him would have to be dealt with. “There have been informal […]
game Tactics in the one-day game are constantly being updated and coach Bob Woolmer is making sure the South Africans stay ahead of the game CRICKET: Mark Lamport-Stokes SOUTH AFRICA’S national coach Bob Woolmer has earned a deserved reputation for being an innovative cricketing thinker and strategist. nnnSince the former Kent and England all-rounder took […]
One of South African students’ oldest traditions, Rag, is starting to change its whites-only image, reports Philippa Garson IT’S Rag time again. Time for students to take to the streets in the age-old tradition of “Remember and Give”. Or is it “Retch and Gag”, given the beer swilling, rugger bugger image of Ragites of yore, […]