THE OSCARS: Richard Brooks RUPERT MURDOCH’s studio, Twentieth Century Fox, was originally due to shoot The English Patient, the movie that went on to pick up nine awards including best film at Monday’s Oscars, but Fox did not want to spend R140-million on a film without a star actress. He demanded that Demi Moore replace […]
come’ On the other side of the coin, some South African producers were facing insurmountable barriers to entry into the EU market. Davies has tried to highlight the case of the Langeberg fruit-canners in the Western Cape as a case in point. Most of their products remained on the agricultural exclusion list and attracted duties […]
Hazel Friedman IT is the place where the bones of our earliest ancestors were unearthed. But the village of Taung, 160km north of Kimberley, also resonates in a different way through the music of keyboard supremo Paul Hamner. His latest CD Trains To Taung – an instrumental journey through the roots of ancient music to […]
CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser OVER the past few years it has become increasingly rare for the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) of the SABC to give performances worthy not only of its status as the official orchestra of a national (publicly funded) broadcaster but also of the undoubted abilities of its members. One often suspected that […]
Spain’s acceptance of South Africa to the Lom Convention is only the beginning of a wider battle over trade and development issues, writes Lynda Loxton SPAIN’S decision not to veto South Africa’s limited accession to the Lom Convention was only the start of a process of negotiating a new trade agreement with the European Union, […]
HAZEL FRIEDMAN meets sangoma Credo Mutwa to talk about the future – and a new exhibition ‘I HAVE a sick, disgusting obsession to make this country great – not through guns and revolution but through love and laughter.” Credo Mutwa’s eyes practically sink behind his tree-thick lenses and disappear into bloated cheeks as he breaks […]
Investigations into the ‘Trojan Horse’ incident in 1985 may reveal why officers who killed children were never prosecuted, reports Gustav Thiel IN the late afternoon of October 15 1985, security police hiding in crates on the back of a lorry opened fire on children playing in Thornton Road, in the Belgravia section of Athlone. Shaun […]
WORLD MUSIC:Gwen Ansell ASK Madam and (without Eve to prompt her) she may just have heard of Masekela, or foxtrotted to the African Jazz Pioneers at a banquet. But ask the kids in any Jo’burg suburb and – if they’ve listened to jazz at all – a name they’re likely to come up with is […]
child Gustav Thiel `MAN, I want to be a soccer hero one day,” says Richard. “What I’m doing now is not so bad. It won’t last forever.” Richard is 13. He speaks softly, and fiddles with his baseball cap. It’s 1.30 on a Sunday morning, near Cape Town’s Waterfront. As he talks a steady stream […]
South African scientists are discovering that traditional communities are rich in technology, writes Lesley Cowling THERE is a toad in the Northern Province that is considered a delicacy among local people. It is harvested from its natural habitat, has its innards removed and is braaied over coals to provide a gourmet treat for the lucky […]