The Menu is packing his theatre binoculars with the mother-of-pearl inlay and his most elasticated cummerbund for what promises to be a splendid evening of theatrical and culinary high-jinks at Dublin’s Smock Alley Theatre throughout the month of August. 

The state agency responsible for names of towns and cities approved plans today to rename the capital Pretoria as Tshwane, dismissing criticism by mainly white South Africans that it would undermine their cultural traditions.