Yearly Archives: 1999

With strong support from traditional leaders, the UDM is becoming a force to be reckoned with in the Eastern Cape, reports Chiara Carter Five chiefs have made themselves available for nomination by the United Democratic Movement – a move likely to bolster support for the party which appears poised to become the official opposition in […]

Brenda Fassie is back in Soweto this weekend to thank her countless faithful fans for their support registered through massive sales of Memeza, her hot new album. Fassie has had a long relationship with this teeming city. For many years she’s traversed the length and breadth of the vast township, lauded by young and old. […]

Shirley Kossick FRIEDA AND MIN by Pamela Jooste (Doubleday) Second novels are notoriously difficult to write, especially when the first one has been a popular and critical success. Pamela Jooste need not have worried, however, as Frieda and Min, though not as consistently appealing as Dance with a Poor Man’s Daughter, has a good story […]

Nhlanhla Hlongwane Thursday night at Yeoville’s House of Tandoor is reggae night and, until the wee hours, it’s the place to be. The house has a rotating pool of DJ crews who fling the full spectrum of reggae and hip-hop. The two main crews in Johannesburg that deal with reggae are the Sounds of Edutainment, […]

Matthew Krouse Scrawl ’99 is South Africa’s answer to the kind of screenwriter’s education run by the Performing Arts Laboratory (PAL) in Britain, and the Sundance Institute in the United States. Its second annual 10-day workshop begins on March 5, again at the Monkey Valley resort outside Cape Town. In its first year of existence […]

If the first duty of an opposition party is to oppose, or at least test, government policy at every turn, its second is presumably to try to become the ruling party. The problem in South Africa is that none of the opposition parties appears to have even a chance of becoming the government in this […]

000 Ellen Elmendorp Television news viewers were charmed last week by the story about Tammy, the Western Cape police’s perlemoen-sniffing dog. But Tammy’s fame has taken an ugly turn with the news that perlemoen poachers would like to see her knocked off, and have taken out a R50 000 contract on the lively Border collie’s […]

worse Charlene Smith In November last year, doctors and hospital superintendents in Gauteng presented a memorandum to the province, warning that ”patients will die” if staff and budgetary cutbacks at hospitals were not halted. The memo read: ”We cannot in good conscience accept that financial constraints will mandate the collapse of health services in Gauteng. […]

Larry Flynt’s drive to loosen the puritan grip on the US has taken a new turn with his upmarket sex shops. Frances Anderton meets the porn king It is midday in a sunny, spacious coffee bar on Sunset Strip. Enthroned in a gold- plated wheelchair, munching a bagel, sits the man considered a shameless smut […]

entertainment My favourite website is my own, of course. I’ve never managed to get into anyone else’s. 2KY, or whatever you call it, has hit Darling, darling. I just go there to check it for facts and change it all the time. You change the cat’s sandbox every day, but you should also change the […]