Andrew Higgins in Hong Kong IN the dying days of British rule, all eyes in Hong Kong are fixed on a corpse. Around it crowd dozens of television cameras and a throng of mud-slinging mourners. The cause of the controversy is the death of a philandering, opium-smoking and much loved Cantonese opera star. Tang, best […]
RUGBY:Steve Morris IT is a sad state of affairs when the top sides in this country are left to fight it out among themselves for the scraps of the Super 12 semi-final berths. But, as things currently stand in the maelstrom of the three-nation provincial competition, this is indeed the case. With the Auckland Blues, […]
BONGANI NDODANA on a local composer who left the country to pursue his craft THE grass is certainly much greener in Europe, where a generation of classical composers from Southern Africa have been exiled by their craft and formed what seems to be a musical diaspora. Unlike their predecessors Priaulx Rainier and John Joubert, who […]
SOUTH AFRICAN publisher Gecko Books is offering a prize of R1 000 for the best short story on the theme of a future South Africa. What will life be like in this country in the next century? That’s the question that has to be addressed – whether seriously or humorously. The publishers hope to compile […]
WEDNESDAY, 6.30PM FORMER defence minister Magnus Malan told the Truth Commission today that murdered Swapo lawyer Anton Lubowski was a paid agent of South African Military Intelligence, which therefore had no reason to kill him. Malan first made the allegations soon after Lubowski’s murder. “What I said in Parliament then I stick to. Check the […]
A clash between Soweto giants Chiefs and Pirates is always a heated affair, but with both teams desperate for maximum points Saturday’s match is bound to be a sizzler SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi ONE does not require an advanced football coaching certificate to realise that Orlando Pirates striker Jerry Sikhosana is going to receive careful attention […]
If the South African Football Association was a soccer team, it would be facing relegation, but new CEO Danny Jordaan is hoping to make some changes SOCCER:Julian Drew AFTER the revelations of the Pickard Commission of Inquiry and the subsequent removal of South African Football Association (Safa) president Stix Morewa, public confidence in the administration […]
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 […]