OPERA: Coenraad Visser DONIZETTI’s comic masterpiece Don Pasquale fares very well in Pact Opera’s restaging of its 1990 production. Against the backdrop of Anthony Farmer’s beautiful sets and with the characters splendidly and sometimes zanily dressed by Lindy Grindlay, Neels Hansen’s production sparkles with many deft comic touches deriving from the music. Hanli Stapela is […]
A hard-headed tycoon, a powerful sports politician, the Olympics , millions of rands at stake. Julian Drew looks at the battle over Cape Town’s bid to host the 2004 games IT was a battle that even the feisty and influential Raymond Ackerman could never win. ——————In the end his feud with Sam Ramsamy, president of […]
She is 20, and she’s the editor and chief pinup of a porn magazine that’s taking South Africa by storm. Anouk Mommer reports ‘Hi, I’m Satinder and … I will be editing all letters sent in by you, the South African reader. Please don’t hesitate to write to me to ask me about whatever’s on […]
The government will want to send the right signals to investors in next week’s Budget. Reg Rumney looks at its options Will the Budget stimulate the already blossoming economy, depress it, or have no effect? Whether the March 15 Budget will be — to put it in economic jargon — contractionary, expansionary, or neutral is […]
If Dance Umbrella’s contemporary ballets are meant to be populist, why, asks Stanley Peskin, do they continue to elude understanding? DANCE Umbrella is now seven years old, and during its formative years some bad habits have set in. In the case of children, there are absent fathers, working mothers, lost sons. In the case of […]
Weekly Mail & Guardian Reporter A SCREENING of the Citizen Kane of Egyptian cinema, The Night of Counting the Years, will open the Egyptian Film Festival next Friday at the Seven Arts Cinema in Norwood. Directed by Shadi Abdel Salam, the film is set at the opening of the tombs of the pharaohs in 1881 […]
Super 10: Skilful forwards lay the foundation RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE are times when the performance of a pack of forwards takes your breath away. The famed All Black eight-man blanket is invariably capable of eliciting this reaction. The French rise to these heights when Gallic whim takes them, and of late both the English […]
Justin Pearce ALAN REYNOLDS looks worried. It’s Wednesday afternoon, and he’s just heard that a Johannesburg newspaper has run a headline announcing a meeting between Winnie Mandela and Thabo Mbeki. Neither he nor Mbeki’s office appears to know anything about the meeting — yet the calls are pouring in. “One of those things,” he says […]
The Markets Jacques Magliolo South African institutions are strong enough to avoid being forced into bankruptcy by a “loose operator”, especially under present statutory regulations. To determine whether a Barings-type financial disaster could happen in South Africa I looked at the exposure of a number of institutions’ to non-equity financial instruments, such as bonds and […]
As Pick ‘n Pay loses its lead in the stores market and Pepkor gains ground, Jacques Magliolo explains why Pepkor is the horse to back Behind the scenes battles took place in two of South Africa’s largest stores listed companies in 1994. While Pepkor finished the year by concluding a major corporate deal and seeing […]