Maria McCloy: Design of the Week `It’s like going to the Zoo Lake, taking a shit photo and slapping it on.” This is how designer Nicholas Hauser describes the way in which music posters and covers are usually put together. He sure as hell is having none of that, judging by his work for some […]
Last week was a turning point for South African fashion. Charl Blignaut on SA Fashion Week 1997 and Brenda Atkinson on the Smirnoff Awards. Photos: Danny Hoffman `You can only make one mistake with fashion,” said a top style writer to me over a glass of suitably dry champagne before the opening of South Africa’s […]
Steve Morris: Rugby It is indeed a sad indictment of the thought processes which idly bestir the muddied machinations of Springbok selection that Andre Joubert should be considered a reluctant second choice in the green and gold. It is also all well and good to talk of utilising youth to build towards the 1999 World […]
Frustrations are growing over the slow pace of negotiations with Gold Fields, reports Sechaba ka’Nkosi New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) directors meet next month to evaluate the ongoing talks with Gold Fields South Africa for a stake in its subsidiary, Asteroid. The meeting will decide whether the negotiations team – led by Nail’s executive deputy […]
country Julian Drew: Cycling Ask any South African sports fan to make a list of the success stories from last year’s Olympic Games in Atlanta and you can bet your bottom dollar that the name of JP (Jean-Pierre but nobody calls him that) van Zyl will not feature on many of them. True, he didn’t […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM FORMER Civil Co-operation Bureau operative Wouter Basson, alias Christo Brits, was questioned by members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s investigative unit on Friday. He was the third CCB member to be quizzed by the commission this week. Basson and CCB “managing director” Joe Verster and CCB operative Abraham “Slang” van Zyl were […]
Melvyn Minnaar Moveable feast The label on the outside is the thing. That, all shoppers know and only naive socialists will contradict. But it is sadly ironic that the once ber Bro of our wine industry – who should have kept the flag flying in all circumstances – have such little faith in what is […]
Last week’s Smirnoff International Fashion Awards were overrun by the young and ruthlessly hip. If you survived the trek to Helderfontein Estate, you were assailed by adolescents in hipsters and halters, cooler-than-thou kids at the hottest party of summer. “Decadence” was this year’s design theme, and the press release was dotted with words like “depraved”, […]
When horrors happen – like Bhopal or the Exxon Valdez – Burson-Marsteller pours PR oil on its clients’ troubled waters, reports Andy Beckett If, by unhappy accident, you were to poison a river, or a customer, or the reputation, slowly assembled, of your corporate employer, then your salvation might arrive in a pale slim folder. […]
Maria McCloy Every time you ask anyone in the broadcasting world whether they know of any gay-oriented shows on South African airwaves, chances are they’ll refer you to In The Pink, a weekly programme on Cape community radio station Bush Radio. The show runs on Thursday nights between 8pm and 10pm. “It’s the only gay, […]