THEATRE: Guy Willoughby IN a programme note to Macbeth, at the Alexander Theatre, director Craig Freimond observes that Shakespeare’s great plays “are so well known that it becomes difficult to find fresh readings of them, and even if you do, there will be many who disagree with your interpretation”. Quite true, but the inevitability of […]

The Truth Commission Bill has slowed down in committee over the issue of secrecy in amnesty hearings. The parliamentary justice committee is unlikely to accept the cabinet agreement that those applying for amnesty should be free to do so in camera, and so the Bill will probably go back to the executive. While this issue […]

Reg Rumney and Simon Segal report on the implications of this week’s bank rate rise How high is too high? After this week’s general rise in interest rates South Africa’s real — that is adjusted for inflation — prime rate is now 7,4 percent. The prime rate is the rate banks charge their best customers. […]

FOUNDATION for Peace and Justice staff member Leslie Liddell has denied reports that she received a loan from Dr Allan Boesak’s troubled foundation. Liddel says she believed she would receive a car from the FPJ as part of her package, but was then told she would have to repay the cost of the car in […]

SOCCER: Clinton Asary THE South African under-23 squad’s quest for a place in the finals of the All Africa Games continues this weekend when they visit the mountain kingdom of Lesotho, for the second leg of their second round encounter on Sunday. South Africa won the first leg 2-0, and our “Young Guns” look set […]

The battle for housing took a new twist when hostel dwellers paid R500 for a home — and destroyed a school in the process, reports Annie Mapoma AN education success story for 300 Mzimhlophe Hostel children is turning into a struggle for survival as hostel inmates this week destroyed classroom facilities and Guateng education authorities […]

SOCCER: Clinton Asary THE South African under-23 squad is currently on a two- pronged mission as it aims to qualify for the All Africa Games finals in Harare this September, and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Should they beat Lesotho in their All Africa second round second leg encounter in Maseru on Sunday, the Super Squad […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin WRITTEN and directed by Tim Robbins, Bob Roberts (1992) has more than a passing resemblance to Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941), as well as to a number of films by Robert Altman, notably Nashville (1975) and The Player (1992), in which Robbins himself played a corrupt filmmaker. Originally a sketch for Saturday […]

Jacques Magliolo Newly acquired Billiton International made its debut in mining and financial giant Gencor’s first interim results. And, what an impressive start to its association it was. Billiton’s turnover, excluding associates and investments, amounted to US$1 074-million (R3 802- million) for the six months to end-December. Profit from operating companies (after depreciation) amounted to […]

The Bartel Arts Trust is injecting life into the arts scene in Durban, writes Humphrey Tyler DURBAN’S Bartel Arts Centre hasn’t got a door on its harbourside headquarters yet — the builders haven’t finished the entrance and you have to jump over the foundations to get inside — but it started full tilt this week […]