Darryl Accone
Darryl Accone was the chess columnist of The Star from 1981 to 1994 and books editor of the Mail & Guardian from 2006 to 2017.
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/ 8 September 2006

Bright sparks

Take a conspiracy of clowns, a firebug and a tinder-dry Cape Town and you have the ingredients for <i>Touch Wood</i>, an incendiary piece of environmental theatre based on the advent of fires that ravaged the Mother City in the summer of 2000. Darryl Accone reports.

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/ 16 November 2004

Far East in the near east

From birth we hear food being prepared, savour its aromas, see it displayed as art-about-to-be-eaten, touch and taste it. In marvelling at how food makes the unknown familiar, we acknowledge its role as ambassador for other ways of being in the world, for perspectives, tastes, values and aesthetics different to our own. Chinese restaurants in South Africa offer a chance to explore the soul of that vast country — and great food.

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/ 13 October 2004

Is it the end of the road for Arafat?

His glory days are behind him. At 75, he is frail, his hands shaky, his lapels covered with a score of badges from organisations as diverse as Peace Now and the Samaritans. Yasser Arafat was once a regular visitor at the White House: the Palestinians say he saw Bill Clinton when he was president 28 times.

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/ 13 October 2003

A breath of fresh air

Not since Queen Victoria declared her love for Balmoral has rural Scotland been so stylish. Following in her footsteps, tweed-clad hordes stormed to the Highlands and islands to shoot, walk and stalk their way into aristocratic life. It’s easy to see what draws the rich to the isles.

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/ 3 October 2003

Playing the Apollo

This year’s Apollo Film Festival was a testament to the vigorous possibilities of independent endeavour, writes Darryl Accone. This showcase of South African independent film completed its third edition last week.