The Markets Jacques Magliolo Unnoticed and ominous, a new trend is emerging in the market as a consequence of prolonged strike action in South Africa. While investors and store owners alike are becoming immune to violence-related labour unrest — most do not expect the immediate effect on Pick ‘n Pay’s financial results to be severe […]
David Frost can live up to his name and beat the debilitating heat at next week’s US PGA in Oklahoma GOLF: Jon Swift THIS has, by anyone’s yardstick, been a bumper year for southern African golf. Ernie Els the US Open champion, Simon Hobday, winner of the veteran’s equivalent and Nick Price a popular winner […]
Weekly Mail Reporter THE Market Theatre Company’s production of Scenes from an Execution won seven of the FNB Vita PWV theatre awards last week. The play was named best production of the year. Also honoured were its director, Clare Stopford; Dawid Minnaar and Camilla Waldman, who took the awards for best performance by supporting actors; […]
RUGBY: Barney Spender WIN or lose on Saturday, this sixth tour of New Zealand by the Springboks will probably be judged a failure by the vast majority of South Africans. After all, the test series was lost, the Springbok head fell to Otago in rainy Dunedin and there was the ignominy of having prop Johan […]
Jan Taljaard IT was truly a gathering of the faithful. In contrast to the milling throngs of the past, just over 800 supporters turned up at the Pretoria City Hall this week to listen to the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging’s Eugene Terre’Blanche. In the past, the Pretoria City Hall had served the AWB well as a recruiting […]
Critical Consumer Pat Sidley SOUTH AFRICANS who buy compact discs know prices are much lower in the United States and hope against hope that they will drop in this country. But there is no price relief in sight. British consumers, in much the same boat as South Africans, have just had their hopes dashed by […]
Joining the Boerevolk is easier than one would imagine and you don’t have to be white to qualify for membership, writes a Weekly Mail Reporter IT’S easy to become a member of the Boerevolk. All you need is R15 and a postage stamp. You don’t need to have an aunt who died in the Boer […]
A South African ambassador has taken the UN to task over attacks on tourists in Mozambique, reports Chris Louw SOUTH AFRICA’S ambassador in Maputo, John Sunde, this week criticised the United Nations for failing to improve the security situation in Mozambique in the wake of the dramatic increase in attacks on South African tourists. Sunde […]
NATIVE TONGUE Bafana Khumalo ‘OH, Lisa! What you gon’ an’ done now, baby? What your mama gon’ and made you do?” I was sitting at a piazza at the Oriental Plaza, throwing bits of bread at the doves and shooting the breeze with my good friend, Ali. “Lisa Marie, mah baby, why now?” he cried, […]
Sidwell Hartman has turned down five overseas offers this year — yet the role he most wants to sing here has been offered to a foreigner. Coenraad Visser talked to him between rehearsals for Pact’s Aida A MODEST person with strong Christian beliefs, Sidwell Hartman does not at first evoke the image of the warrior […]
The leader of the African Muslim Party has helped victims from Bangladesh to Bosnia. Now he is using his skills to aid Rwanda. Stefaans Brummer reports Imtiaz Sooliman, a doctor turned politician and aid broker, has a plan to aid Rwanda which could put to shame last month’s South African airlift to the refugee camps. […]
Weekly Mail Reporter AN astonishing range of decorating workshops — from designs for low-cost housing to investments in Oriental carpets — will be on offer at the first ever Decorex (SA) exhibition starting on Wednesday August 10 at Gallagher’s Estate in Midrand. Decorator Nicola Hadfield and the South African Guild of Interior Designers have arranged […]
Jacques Magliolo looks at the profile of a typical insider trader Meet Henry — well educated, well dressed and well-off. A highly respected member of the stockbroking fraternity and a well- known socialite, he knows everyone who is anyone. Henry drives an imported sports car, lives in a mansion in an exclusive Johannesburg suburb — […]
IN most countries, political parties tussle to become the government. In this country, members of all the major political parties are elbowing each other aside in the rush for the opposition benches. The National Party and the Inkatha Freedom Party, despite both being members of the government, also want to lead the opposition. The Democratic […]
Brezhnev’s favourite dish was veal and pork stuffed with vegetables; Gorbachev prefers smoked salmon blinis. Fabius Burger sampled the fare of tsars and presidents at Moscow THE Russians aren’t coming. They’ve arrived, culinary-wise that is, in the restaurant Moscow in Rosebank, Johannesburg, which has been open for just a week. And no, you don’t sit […]
The plight of two threatened species — the jackass penguin and classical ballet — was highlighted at the launch of a new Pact production. Stanley Peskin reports WHEN Nedbank, which is celebrating its fifth year of involvement with The Green Trust, undertook the part sponsorship of Pact Ballet’s presentation of David Bintley’s Still Life at […]
Weekly Mail Television’s award-winning series, Ordinary People, is back on TV-1 on Thursday night. The series, which looks at topical issues and events through the eyes of a range of ordinary people, swept both major documentary television awards last year. It starts on Thursday August 11 at 10.15pm on TV-1.
Chris Louw THE National Party is struggling to establish itself in the opposition role it seeks, judging by this week’s performance in parliament. Party leader and Deputy President FW de Klerk came back from his overseas holiday this week tanned, relaxed and — according to his lieutenants — “fighting-fit”. He was also determined to establish […]
Tenant farming communities are being ignored in the land- reform process. This could prove disastrous for the government, warns Dave Husy of the Farmworkers’ Research and Resource Project RECENTLY 7 000 farm tenants and workers downed tools and took to the streets of traditionally ultra-conservative Piet Retief, marching through the town to present a memorandum […]
Guy Willoughby LAST year, in a ground-breaking effort to attract new writing to radio drama, a competition was launched by Radio South Africa in conjunction with the Congress of South African Writers (Cosaw). This year, Soundscapes: New Voices of the ’90s again appeals to local writers to explore the medium of sound — “the theatre […]
Bafana Khumalo takes a look at an ambitious new educational series aimed at addressing health problems A WOMAN rushes into a clinic, tears rolling down her face as she begs a doctor to save her dying baby; they gallantly do their best but, alas, they lose the child. St Elsewhere? No, Soul City, a new […]
Humphrey Tyler THERE has been a mad scramble by local artists to get a booking at the Hilton Drama Festival next month and many have been disappointed, but the final programme is a hugely promising combination of serious (but not solemn) drama with a leavening of full-on fun on the burgeoning Fringe, not to mention […]
Bulelwa Payi THE Grahamstown police may be seen as “guardian angels” by black school students soon, if an “adoption” programme succeeds. The local police have come up with an innovative idea to win the trust of black students — they are encouraging them to “adopt-a-cop”. The project should be launched later this month. Police spokesman […]
Unions and black business are being wooed by casino king Sol Kerzner with an offer of free shares in a gambling venture, reports Jenny Cargill TRADE union federation Cosatu is part of a consortium negotiating with gambling magnate Sol Kerzner to bid for the lion’s share of gambling rights in the new South Africa. And […]
Ravi Naidoo reports on the consequences of the increasing incidence of labour brokers LABOUR broking — described recently as a “den of unmitigated crooks” by the International Labour Organisation — is becoming a headache for trade unions and permanent workers. And, as it exists now, labour broking is potentially harmful to many stakeholders in the […]
Paul Stober All 12 of South Africa’s officially recognised intelligence networks will be incorporated into the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), under three Bills regulating the new intelligence service. Intelligence sources this week indicated the police’s Crime Intelligence Service (CIS), the Military Intelligence departments of South Africa and the former independent states, the ANC’s Department of […]
Neil Johnson reflects on life as a professional in the English leagues CRICKET: Luke Alfred LAST summer a former Australian wicketkeeper named Rod Marsh provocatively called English bowlers pie-throwers. I was reminded of the phrase when I interviewed Natal’s Neil Johnson, currently playing professionally for Rochdale in the Central Lancashire League. Comparing the standard of […]
Louise Flanagan and Chandre Gould SEVERAL askaris have died in mysterious circumstances — raising the possibility they are being murdered to stop further exposure of hit squad activities. Former Vlakplaas commander Colonel Eugene de Kock, currently facing murder and gun-running charges, is alleged to have killed askari Brian Ngqulunga, shot dead during the Harms Commission […]
The SABC may be getting a new boss but the wrangle over Afrikaans on TV1 continues — while radio has quietly solved the problem, reports Mark Gevisser SABC board chairman Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri is set to announce today the appointment of Zwelakhe Sisulu as the corporation’s group chief executive. The board is also considering a radical […]
Television Sophie Perryer WE might have made the giant leap of faith into the new South Africa, but it was on everyone’s lips this week that the sins of the past should not be forgotten. While opposing members of the government debated the formation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, artist William Kentridge translated his […]
Life for Cuba’s leading rapper isn’t easy, what with daily power cuts, food shortages — and a conservative bureaucracy which sanctions only salsa and other ‘traditional’ forms of music. Tony Karon spoke to Edesio Alejandros THE sun has gone and so has the electricity, and there is little else to do in the balmy darkness […]
Chris Louw REGULAR visitors to Mozambique say they have become accustomed to bribery and corruption at police roadblocks and when stopped by traffic officers. Pieter van Wyk of Pretoria described this week how he was recently stopped five times while travelling the 240km of the Tete corridor from Malawi to Zimbabwe. At one point he […]