Andrew Gilder The yearly FNB Vita Dance Umbrella in Gauteng is the premier showcase for emerging and established choreographic talent. Over the years its solitary position, and the abundance of talent, led to the Umbrella becoming over-populated and unwieldy. To remedy this situation FNB Vita organised -satellite+ festivals to give artists not able to make […]
Vasti Roodt crossfire In the Mail & Guardian of July 28, David Macfarlane concludes his defence of Catherine BreillatOs Romance with a call for women to speak out on the presumed merits of the film (OFlaccid reviews reveal male myopiaO). Macfarlane is filled with indignation at the critical comments the film has elicited from three […]
Mugabe Iden Wetherell A point South AfricaOs President Thabo Mbeki might not have fully appreciated when he arrived at Harare airport on Wednesday for talks with President Robert Mugabe was the presence among his reception committee of squatters from neighbouring farms. The ruling Zanu-PF party now regularly ferries squatters to airport receptions to welcome visiting […]
Cordoning off almost 1,5-million township residents leaving only a few heavily policed exit/entry points has not happened since the apartheid years. Yet it was the first step taken by the Western Cape government this week after months of inaction over the simmering Cape transport conflict. The announcement of the 24-hour shutdown was made within days […]
The Farrelley brothers+ new filthfest Me, Myself and Irene opens this week. John Patterson hails its lavatorial lineage Whenever I meet someone who doesn+t consider 1980+s Caddyshack to be a pinnacle, an apogee, an Everest among vulgar American comedies, I find I must immediately reconsider the terms of our relationship. If they also find Bob […]
Cathy Freeman is a brilliant Aboriginal athlete who seemed destined to symbolise the Sydney Olympics. But politics and a complicated personal life could yet destroy the dream Duncan Mackay It is a warm, breezy summer night in Turin and the restaurants and bars are beginning to fill up with sharp-suited Italians and their designer wives. […]
Chris Dunton Born in South Africa, Beverley Naidoo went into exile in Britain in 1965. There she became a children+s writer and educationalist. Like all her four novels to date, her first book, Journey to Jo+burg, combined an exciting plot with uncompromising realism. A -discovery+ story, it took in subject-matter such as rural poverty, student […]
Anita Chaudhuri Annie Sprinkle, the American porn star turned performance artist, would like a word with British authorities. OItOs outrageous: your customs people wonOt allow any of my videos into the country. WhatOs the matter with you all? When I come over and perform my live show, they make me cut out anything that shows […]
>From PAGE 45 conducted among 15- to 19-year-olds in some African and Latin American countries, it was found that better-educated young girls tend to start having sexual relationships later. In many parts of the world, especially in the developing world, cultural, religious or other impediments prevent girl children and women from receiving education and thus […]
Peter Robinson cricket A few years ago Fanie de Villiers argued that South Africans don+t quit. In his more recent incarnation as a TV presenter, De Villiers says lots of things and not all of them make immediate sense, but at Sydney in 1994 he was able to explain in a few short words exactly […]
Neal Collins soccer If Premiership points were in any way related to millions spent, Liverpool would be red-hot favourites for the championship this winter. And Manchester United would be heading for mid-table mediocrity. Liverpool, the dominant force of English football in the 1970s and 1980s, have spent 50-million in a frantic year of reconstruction while […]
moralityO Barry Streek In barring a Rastafarian, Gareth Prins, from being admitted as an attorney because he had twice been convicted of possession of dagga and said he would continue to use it, the Supreme Court of Appeal had Odisplayed a mindset deeply rooted in the Calvinistic morality espoused by the apartheid stateO, Professor Pierre […]
The first South African Women+s Film Festival will be held in Cape Town from August 10 to 12 at the Nico Theatre. Opening night features Love and Basketball, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. Also showing are Katinka Heyns+s Paljas, Deepa Metha+s Fire, Patricia Plattner+s documentary Made in India, and other movies, including short films by new […]
polarisation Jaspreet Kindra The Azanian PeopleOs Organisation (Azapo) this week sidled up to the African National Congress, moving South African politics a small step closer to racial polarisation. AzapoOs shift dropping socialist militancy in favour of calls for racial solidarity is but one symptom of a growing racialisation of the countryOs public life. Calls for […]
London party animal Mira Calix comes from Durban, but is too busy recording digital music to come home to roost Greg Bowes Electronic music is undeniably a domain where the -boys and their toys+ ethos reigns and to hear of women producing dynamite digital sound is rare. The latest prodigy from the world+s best-known and […]
Ebrahim Harvey Left field In the first article that I wrote for this paper a year ago, I stated: OThe ANC is on a collision course with its own support base and could suffer come the 2004 election.O This view, expressing the negative impact that the economic policies of the ruling party has on the […]
South African women still have scant choices when it comes to avoiding HIV/Aids Khadija Magardie Women have unequal power in society, resulting in less control of their lives, particularly their sexual health choices. This has had dire consequences for their susceptibility to HIV/Aids infection. According to the latest UNAids report on the global status of […]
The ever-popular Dingaan Thobela goes in search of a third world title next month Deon Potgieter Already a South African boxing legend, the -Rose of Soweto+, Dingaan Thobela, now stands on the verge of writing his name in the echelons of boxing history as an international legend. Thobela was all but written off by his […]
South African/Saudi arms deals could be jeopardised by the debacle surrounding the Cell-C cellular licence bid Ivor Powell As the government seeks to contain the damage, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has been dropped from a Cabinet subcommittee appointed to assess the fallout from the third cellular debacle on a package of oil and weapons deals […]
Alexander Sudheim THEATRE Ever since Darwin claimed them as our kin, man+s fascination with the ape has been a deep and divided one. The idea that we humans, the supreme species on the planet, may have links to the missing link closer than many might consider comfortable, inspires revulsion in some and enthrallment in others. […]
Hennie Bester, the new Western Cape safety MEC, has brought a new attitude to his portfolio Marianne Merten OIOm not sure whether I must accept congratulations or sympathy,O smiled Western Cape MEC for Community Safety Hennie Bester after his first media conference. He and MEC for Transport Piet Meyer had just announced that Khayelitsha the […]
Brasse vannie Kaap+s new album, Yskoud, heads into sakkie-sakkie and hard rock territory. Adam Haupt spoke to them before their Oppikoppi and Belgium missions It+s an unusually warm winter+s day in Cape Town and I+m hanging out in a chicken joint with Brasse vannie Kaap+s (BVK) Fat and Ready D. The Brasse were a tad […]
GM war Jaspreet Kindra The real political contest today is between the Opower of people and the power of corporationsO, pronounces Dr Vandana Shiva, the fiery activist from India. Shiva, one of the stalwarts of the anti- biotech movement launched over a decade ago, is here to help kick-start the South African campaign against genetically […]
E-mail virus warnings spread as fast as the viruses themselves but are often only hoaxes Rupert Neethling Alarm at the prospect of a new computer virus is both healthy and justified. But it seems that many users have yet to discover that not all virus warnings are true. Ironically, e-mail hoaxes posing as virus warnings […]
Financial guru Magnus OUncle FinanceO Heystek this week finally paid the taxed costs incurred by the Mail & Guardian in defending itself against a defamation case he had brought. Heystek withdrew from his much-publicised legal action and agreed to pay the newspaperOs costs before the matter was due to go to court. The M&GOs lawyers, […]
Ria Ledwaba+s dream of top-flight soccer has come true as her team, Ria Stars, are in the premier league Merryman Kunene Being the youngest child and the only daughter in the Rasebotsa family, Ria Ivy Ledwaba+s formative years were heavily influenced by her soccer-mad brothers – who either played for or supported Pietersburg+s most famous […]
community Thebe Mabanga A Jewish lifestyle-oriented website has caused outrage among community leaders and conservative elders in BritainOs Jewish community. The site, totallyjewish.com, offers everything from current affairs to travelling and personal finance advice. It also offers an online dating service. The service boasts the largest database of single Jewish people complemented by relationship and […]
Brenda Atkinson crossfire While the idea of woman-hatred is commonplace and spans most cultures, hatred of men is generally considered the narrow preserve of embittered radical lesbians and the odd feminist. On the surface of things, director Catherine BreillatOs controversial and infinitely subversive film Romance demands that equivalent term, misandry: the message it conveys about […]
Paul Kirk A Mail & Guardian investigation into the medical abuse of conscripts by the former South African Defence Force (SADF) has uncovered that both the University of Pretoria and the SADF were warned of the bizarre experiments being conducted under the care of Dr Aubrey Levin but did nothing to stop the abuse. The […]
Barry Streek A decade from now as many as 45 000 people in South African prisons could die every year from HIV/Aids and Aids-related diseases, according to the inspecting judge of prisons, Judge Hannes Fagan. He told a conference on crime and human rights at the University of Western Cape that five years ago 182 […]
Roshila Pillay The Internet could prove to be an indispensable crutch to assist women on their walk to economic empowerment. It is an important component in alleviating poverty and spurring economic growth. Women account for a paltry 17% of South AfricaOs 700 000 Internet users, according to a study by Gillian Marcelle, chair of the […]
The Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants in Southern AfricaOs 15th annual convention will give delegates from the investment industry a chance to raise problematic issues and find solutions Mail & Guardian Reporter South African economic transformation and its role in the global economy will be under the spotlight next week (August 10 and […]