Barbara Ludman Their work could not be more different – Anne Sassoon’s haunting shapes and faces, Hadassah Levin’s lyrical landscapes. But there are certain commonalities – two, actually – which make sense of their joint exhibition, on until the end of the month at the Lighthouse Gallery in the ancient city of Old Jaffa, just […]

A PENSIONER who made telephonic death threats to then deputy president Thabo Mbeki has been jailed for five years by a Cape Town magistrate. Theo James Keown, 51, of Parow,made the first threat in a telephone call to Tuynhuys on May 27 last year, and the remaining four to the African National Congress’ office in […]

Belinda Beresford Eighty guns for hire sat proudly on the Linder Auditorium stage in Johannesburg on Wednesday, plying their trade for love and in the hope of money. It was the inaugural concert of the new Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO), created by musicians from the now defunct National Symphony Orchestra (NSO). The NSO finally collapsed […]

Valentine Cascarino A new exhibition by artist Keith Dietrich called Bodies, Traces, Identities has meanings so intricate it’s enough to send viewers into a frenzy of deep thought. Consisting of 150 unframed watercolour fragments, the almost satirical works depict various body parts (some of them quite frightening) that seem to raise a sea of questions […]

Whatever the outcome of the election in Zimbabwe this weekend, Robert Mugabe has a tough time ahead David Moore Call me an individualist, but the crisis Zimbabwe faces for the next few weeks could be fixed by one man: President Robert Mugabe. Even if a huge Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) or Zanu-PF majority floods […]

Marianne Merten When Hansie Cronje sat down for his second day of cross- examination this week few expected another bombshell from the Proteas’ disgraced and apologetic ex- captain. Instead he revealed he wished he had accepted the $250 000 offered to the team to throw the 1996 match in Mumbai. “I was annoyed with myself […]

Steve Bunce BOXING When Cindy Zamudio torched the toilets at her high school in Los Angeles she had no idea she was on her way to the boxing ring. She was ready for a career in prison. Zamudio is 18 years old and 121kg. She is the super-heavyweight amateur champion of the United States and […]

Jaspreet Kindra As the Democratic Party flirts with the New National Party and the African National Congress espouses almost Thatcherite ideas, black consciousness parties and the Pan-Africanist Congress can safely claim to be the only ideological purists left in South Africa. Last week the Socialist Party of Azania (Sopa), the Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) and […]

SOUTH Africa’s second local government elections should be held on December 2, the Independent Electoral Commission has proposed. Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi is likely to announce a date by the second week of July. The constitution says municipal elections should be held between November 1 and January 31 next year.

2000 party Neal Collins SOCCER Shortly after England had been knocked out of Euro 2000 in Belgium on Tuesday night, the BBC screened a documentary detailing the violence which had taken place in Brussels and Charleroi last weekend. At one point England’s finest young men, tattooed, earringed, drunk and overweight, were goading the Belgian police: […]