Angus Begg Born – October 4 1918, died – April 4 1994, Gregg Simons was one of the Riemvasmakers trucked in 1970, against his will, from his home in the northern Cape to the red and rocky hills of Damaraland in the former South West Africa. As far as family graveyards go, his resting place […]
Gregory Mthembu-Salter Rwanda played host this week to one of the largest and most ambitious cultural events ever seen in the country – a festival of “memory against forgetting”. The Fest’Africa – in Rwanda’s capi-tal Kigali, and the university town of Butare – brought together authors, artists and film- makers from all over the continent […]
Chris Roper REVIEW OFTHEWEEK Damn, that Brett Murray is a funny guy! The unveiling of his Africa sculpture in Cape Town last Friday was a delicious occasion, marked in equal parts by mirth and blank incomprehension. The 3-m high statue, an Ivorian curio figure with Bart Simpson heads growing out of it, occupies a space […]
Neal Collins RUGBY South Africans will probably be recoiling at the thought of Martin Johnson leading another group of tourists to the Rainbow Nation this month. Last time the huge Leicester lock captained a touring side against the Boks, he led the Lions to a shock victory over the then world champions in 1997. But […]
Thebe Mabanga IN YOUR EAR Johannesburg-based adult contemporary station Kaya fm 95.9 is steadily making inroads in winning over a fastidious and habit-driven audience – the black middle class – using retro sounds with a world music slant. Since its August 1997 launch, Kaya has entrenched its distinct sound. Its music selection is astute, yet […]
Last week former Bafana Bafana player Eric September was sentenced to 27 years in prison for the murder of his fiance – he never revealed why he did it Nawaal Deane In 1994 Eric September was on the road to becoming a Bafana Bafana star, having made his debut for the national soccer side. At […]
MARIAM ISA, Johannesburg | Friday 10.50am. THE country’s reserves of gold and foreign exchange rose in May despite a heavy outflow of capital during the month, data on Friday showed, sending a good signal to domestic markets recovering from a recent beating. The country’s central bank also managed to keep its net open foreign exchange […]
workers Glenda Daniels An International Resource and Information Group (Ilrig) survey released on June 1 by the municipal workers in Cape Town showed that there is very little support for the local government’s restructuring plans. Contents of the survey centred on work organisation, labour relations, service delivery and municipal restructuring (including the Unicity mega-city model). […]
LUCIA MUTIKANI, Johannesburg | Friday 3.20pm. SHARES on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange will remain under the spell of US markets next week, despite increasing potential for an upward thrust, traders and asset managers said on Friday. ”The thing to watch out for is the US markets. The feeling in our market is that we are […]
John Grobler The tangled skeins of apartheid’s past in Namibia got yet another knot this week when a former security branch policeman claimed that as many as 2 000 former Swapo guerrillas were at one stage held in the camps from where Dr Wouter Basson’s 200 victims were allegedly selected. Former security branch member Linus […]