Congo Hadebe’s first staged play, about a group of women living in a park, covers everything from religion to sleep deprivation Merle Colborne The small man with the brown, knobbly face, wearing a GUD labourer’s jacket and a lean, infrequent smile, seems discomfited sharing a table at the Playhouse Coffee Shop with this umlungu poking […]
Last month the Gerard Sekoto Foundation took the spirit of great art to the village of Ga- Mphahlele Pule waga Mabe July 29 will be remembered for a long time by pupils in the remote village of Ga- Mphahlele in the Northern Province who, last weekend, got the opportunity to explore their talents while playing […]
Paul Kirk Dr Aubrey Levin has threatened to sue the Mail & Guardian – in Canada – for its articles on his exploits while in the service of the South African Defence Force. Levin’s Canadian lawyers say that in addition to suing over the articles, Levin wants his victims silenced and intends suing the M&G […]
Tom Sutcliffe Obituary T he best-known and loved English actor of the 20th century, Sir Alec Guinness, who has died aged 86, was an unostentatious and reserved man. He undertook a great variety of roles, all informed with the wisdom of the sad clown. His spiritual severity and stillness made him an icon after his […]
Chris McGreal a second look The Zimbabwean government messenger who delivered the official notice to a stunned April Davies last week quietly, but dramatically, tipped the scales in the struggle over Zimbabwe’s farmland. Davies was told that her farm had been expropriated without compensation. The government took the land immediately and gave the elderly widow […]
Barry Streek Obituary The leader of the right-wing Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP), Jaap Marais, was a determined man. Indeed some would describe him as fanatical, having clung to his faith in white supremacy right until his death this week. It was a determination graphically demonstrated by his passion for breeding budgies and, in particular, attempting […]
Barry Streek The imposition of interest-rate ceilings would affect those who had the greatest need for short-term emergency credit, forcing them to go to informal lenders who were even more expensive, a government-appointed inquiry into the R25-billion-a-year small-loans sector has concluded. “Setting interest-rate ceilings will restrict the flow of credit into the system by forcing […]
Haroon Bhorat A second look As the employment equity commission (EEC) of the Department of Labour begins to assess discrimination and inequality in the labour market, it is important to inject a series of numbers and facts early on into this debate. This is to ensure that the EEC makes proclamations and decisions based on […]
Nawaal Deane Magnus Heystek, the finance guru, has appeared in the Johannesburg High Court in the latest round of litigation involving a multimillion-rand family trust. Clive Berman, the father of the beneficiaries of the trust, last week sought to interdict the trustees from using funds from the trust to finance their litigation with him. Berman […]
The presenter of a new television programme on food was part of the world of people who carried out some of the most ghastly deeds in the name of the apartheid state Terry Bell The new food and travel programme on e.tv has almost certainly attracted an unlikely niche audience: a small group of Truth […]