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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Having led the way with cellphones, the Finns are making the Net move. Vic Keegan visits virtual Helsinki for a vision of the future In the middle of Helsinki’s bustling town centre, by the Lasipalatsi (Glass Palace), there is what looks like a telephone booth made of pinewood. Go inside the kiosk and you are […]

The Eastern Cape town of Bisho is fast becoming a ghost town, reports Peter Dickson There was a time when all it took was a cathedral to transform a town into a city, but in the modern consumer age, the shopping mall appears to be the deciding factor. In Bisho, an almost medieval enclave built […]

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 […]

When you’re tired of reports of crime, rape, murder and general mayhem, put Nelson Mandela: The Symbol of a Nation CD in your computer.