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Art with a view of the city

Article Staff Reporter - 3 May 1996

Luan Nel abandons his miniature landscapes and transforms concrete walls into canvases for a show this weekend. He spoke to Hazel Friedman.

Star struck in SA

Article Staff Reporter - 2 May 1996

Hollywood came to town this week -- in the form of Jean-Claude Van Damme. He spoke to Peter Johnson.

Popcorn made epic

Article Staff Reporter & Cinema - 2 May 1996

The feel-good, teenage boy rite-of-passage pic set in the early Sixties has, in the Nineties, become a genre all of its own. The era...

Zoning in on Funktionality

Article Staff Reporter - 2 May 1996

Alex Dodd steps into the Funktion to discover the latest buzz in multi-purpose urban spaces -- trend emporium by day, cyberzone by night.

One for the road

Article Staff Reporter - 2 May 1996

Leaving Las Vegas is a pretty uncompromising look at the lives of two no-hopers loose in Las Vegas, who stumble across each other and...

Polly Street days again

Article Staff Reporter - 8 Oct 1995

FINE ART: The Artists' Proof Studio, reviewed by Ian Tromp.

Polanski’s Roman empire

Article Staff Reporter & Jonathan Romney - 8 Oct 1995

CINEMA: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN Jonathan Romney speaks to director Roman Polanski, whose new film is released this week.

Something new, something old

Article Staff Reporter - 12 Aug 1994

Despite its expensive, chequered past, the newly opened Museum Africa successfully exposes South African history from a rarely seen angle.

Upping local content on TV

Article Staff Reporter - 4 Feb 1994

The two big boys of broadcasting -- the SABC and M-Net -- are at last starting to do something about that great thing called local content.

Mandela life story: pure hero worship but original

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Feb 1990

According to Fatima Meer, Nelson Mandela wrote an autobiography in the late 1970s.

ANC history simplified and timely

Article Shaun De Waal - 23 Feb 1990

Holland has said in an interview that The Struggle is intended for South African whites; her aim is to “de-demonise" the ANC.

Relly and Bloom to meet Mandela

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Feb 1990

Nelson Mandela is to meet Anglo-American Corporation chief Gavin Relly and former Premier Group chairman Tony Bloom.

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