THURSDAY, 4.00PM: AN African National Congress town councillor from Richmond in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands was early Thursday shot dead as he left his home. Rodney van der Byl, 54, was shot about eight times in an attack local residents say is linked to Van der Byl’s refusal to resign in support of expelled Midlands ANC […]
THURSDAY, 4.00PM: SINCE former Zimbabwean president Canaan Banana was accused of homosexual rape by his former aide de camp earlier this year, dozens of students, soccer players and soldiers have approached police investigating the claims with complaints that they too had suffered sexual harassment from Banana, the Financial Gazette repotred Thursday. The allegations first arose […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: SANET MARAIS continued her winning streak in the Bell’s Women’s Open amateur golf championship in Killarney, Johannesburg — she triumphed in the matchplay section. yesterday with two wins. Marais beat both Desiree Earle (5/3), and Lindsay Cummings (4/3) in quick bouts. She is certainly going through to play in the quarterfinals, as is […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: SPRINGBOK utility back Gavin Johnson is the latest player down in the string of casualties that has plagued the Gauteng Lions in the Super 12. Johnson, who hurt his shoulder on April 12 in a match against Northern Transvaal, has been scheduled for an operation on May 21, and will be out of […]
Barbara Ludman QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING by Christopher Brookmyre (Little, Brown, R59,75) THERE’S a certain attraction to a book which clearly sets out to be the most disgusting read of the year. Investigative reporter Jack Parlabane, hiding in Edinburgh from contract killers out to get him at his most recent port of call, Los Angeles, […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM HOUSING Minister Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele yesterday announced a plan to force builders using government subsidies to register, in an attempt to prevent consumers from rip-offs by imposing acceptable construction standards. The registration plan, which has drawn flak from major builders, involves the granting of statutory powers to the national Home Builders’ Association to impose […]
Crippled sports stars swear by him, but orthodox medicine frowns. David Davies meets Hans-Wilhelm Mller-Wohlfahrt, the doctor who rescued Jose Maria Olazabal from despair WHEN Jose Maria Olazabal, hunched against the pain and walking on his heels, limped slowly and very sadly into the Munich consulting rooms of Dr Hans-Wilhelm Mller- Wohlfahrt there was no […]
GWEN ANSELL profiles Brice Wassy, `king of makossa’ and one of the performers in the Afrika Oye! concert performers CAMEROONIAN music found its international fame with Manu Dibangu and Soul Makossa. So, initially, did the imported star of tonight’s city hall rhythmfest, drummer Brice Wassy. But there’s rather more to Cameroonian music than makossa, and […]
LIVE MUSIC: Maria McCloy IT must have been a record – a local concert featuring some of South Africa’s hottest acts actually started and finished on time. But then again, maybe the Benson & Hedges Golden Tones bash last Saturday could have waited a little longer to get going: when I walked in at 6pm, […]
Jonathan Romney THE word “epic” has been rather devalued in cinema ever since they revved up the chariots in the original silent Ben-Hur. This week, however, epic cinema returns to its classical roots, with the release of Ulysses’ Gaze, the latest film by Greek director Theo Angelopoulos. Over three hours, Harvey Keitel’s modern Homeric hero […]