Yearly Archives: 1999

Inayet Motara The man responsible for rocketing breakbeat’s 1990s incarnation,” jungle” into the popular arena, Goldie, will be playing this weekend at the annual Camel Experience rave party. He’ll top the bill with France’s flamboyant pop diva, Grace Jones. Currently one of the coolest cultural icons to come out of the United Kingdom, Goldie is […]

John Matshikiza WITH THE LID OFF It was an edifying sight. The M1 highway heading north out of Johannesburg had been blocked for three days between the Athol Oakland and the Corlett Drive off-ramps. It was the middle of the week. Like the rest of Johannesburg’s would-be stars of speedway, I had done nothing more […]

Marianne Merten Outgoing University of Cape Town (UCT)head Dr Mamphela Ramphele is confident she leaves behind a world-class institution of academic excellence in Africa. The student activist turned university vice-chancellor is set to take up one of four World Bank managing director posts towards the middle of next year. She will be responsible for human […]

The editor of The Times of Swaziland’s Sunday edition was asked to resign this week after publishing an article about the king’s wife. Bheki Makhubu describes how he was axed After having edited The Times of Swaziland’s Sunday edition for six years, it was rather a rude shock to realise just much the Swazi people […]

Drag queens have never been treated like royalty but they have been at the forefront in the battle for gay acceptance, writes Charl Blignaut On the top of my stack of photocopies of old issues of the Golden City Post filed away in the Gay and Lesbian Archive of South Africa (Gala) is a particularly […]

Donna Block SHARE WORLD ‘Zip, zap, zum,” said the magicians at my son’s birthday party. Now you see it, now you don’t. They made things disappear and reappear, turned paper into flowers and fire into a bottle of Coke, truly amazing. They entertained and kept the kids quiet with their amazing feats. But at the […]

Basketball is second in popularity only to soccer in Africa. Aaron Nicodemus reviews the matches played at the seventh All Africa Games It is ironic that basketball was invented by a white American, considering that even in the United States the sport has been overtaken by African-Americans. In many countries on the African continent, the […]

Gavin Foster explains why we should welcome the third cellphone operator with open arms Two’s company, but three’s a crowd. That’s the line taken by cellphone giants MTN and Vodacom, who both believe that the soon-to- be-announced third player in the cellular game will have a long, hard slog ahead before realising profits. But it’s […]

Robert Kirby Channel Vision Whether e.tv is going to survive is, of course, anybody’s guess. A lot of people think it should, usually on the grounds that e.tv is a necessary evil, an independent entity against which the SABC and M-Net may be assessed. This is nonsense. The one thing SABC television has never lacked […]

Former president Nelson Mandela’s Houghton, Johannesburg, office was flooded with 20000 postcards and letters.