Mapula Sibanda South Africa’s nine regions have been in place for more than six months, but old provincial sports structures — as many as 22 in rugby, for example — play on. Some officials respectably cite the “hampering of development” or “confusing” provincial name changes for this laxity, but the more frank attribute it to […]
Moveable Feast Marino Corazza WE’RE all part of the global village — or are we? There are still suburbs (however few and small) where the inhabitants nonchalantly live in their own worlds. Like the Glamour Village, where people on the hoof sport helenca jodhpurs, velour protective hats, that frothy, horsey smell and dung on their […]
Gauteng’s new director general is a former student leader who spent his time dodging the police. He spoke to Annie Mapoma A LEADER of the 1976 Soweto students’ uprising dubbed “master dodger” because police never arrested him is now Gauteng’s new director general, with a R13-billion budget and 130 000 administrative staff under his Vincent […]
Environmentalists have threatened to interdict the police minister unless he puts a stop to a Natal dagga-spraying operation, reports Eddie Koch A COALITION of civic organisations yesterday threatened to interdict Police Minister Sydney Mufamadi unless his commissioner stops the narcotics bureau from spraying large areas of KwaZulu Natal with a dangerous herbicide designed to stamp […]
THEATRE: Guy Willoughby JUST what are Barney Simon and his cast doing in this bad production of a good but dated play about hopelessness in London’s East End? Sad to tell, but Simon — one of South Africa’s most celebrated directors — seems to have lost his way; at the very least, this version of […]
CINEMA: William Pretorius IF, as Situationist Guy Debord announced would happen in the 1960s, the rise of the mass media has turned society into spectacle, then serial killers are the prime exhibits. They are no longer regarded as murderers, but as gruesome celebrities. That’s why Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers got it right: the movie […]
WRESTLING: Mapula Sibanda THE evening started with screams of disgust at local boy “Hammer”, swaggering round the ring in neon-flowered lycra tights, throwing his spit in the air and swallowing it back again. But it was all part of the entertainment at the international wrestlemania-type tournament at Turffontein’s Wembley Indoor Arena last Friday. The five-bout […]
Bruce Cohen Winnie Mandela may have angered Nelson and upstaged Thabo, but she’s been thrilling the northern suburbs of Johnnesburg with an urban legend of epicurian The rumour started last November and goes something like this: Winnie and party of 10 or so arrived at the famed Ile de France restaurant in Bryanston, owned by […]
Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela will speak on the same platform in Copenhagen this weekend, but South Africa still seems to have mixed feelings about Cuba, writes Peter Vale TEN months after the election, South Africa still seems unable to articulate a coherent and cohesive policy towards Cuba. Certainly foreign minister Alfred Nzo’s performance on […]
ANTON Harber has been named sole editor of the Weekly Mail & Guardian. Harber has been co-editor since the paper’s launch a decade ago. The other co-editor, Irwin Manoim, has been appointed to head the planning for a new publishing venture that is part of the WM&G group’s development “Changes in South African politics and […]