Guy Willoughby speaks to Marthinus Basson about his latest collaboration with poet/playwright Breyten Breytenbach Marthinus Basson – design-directorial supremo, arts propagandist, all-round theatre maestro – is snatching coffee and koek between final rehearsals of The Life and Times of Johnny Cockroach, his latest explosive collaboration with poet-turned- playwright Breyten Breytenbach. Restlessly pacing the noisy Nico […]

cash Luvuyo Kakaza Creative minds stand to win mega prizes in the second annual Hansa Pilsener Cool Sounds Songwriting competition when winners are announced in March. In a departure from the usual Shell Road to Fame talent search for performing artists, the songwriting competition does not require entrants to perform, but to compose songs in […]

When Ian Player won the first Dusi in 1951, he did so without much in the way of outside help. Last weekend more than 150 policemen and dozens of soldiers, sailors and firemen helped to make the race safer for more than 2 000 competitors. Gavin Foster reports Three helicopters, 39 pistol-packing motorcyclists and 40 […]

CD of the week Cape Verde – the name just hasn’t been the same since that wonder-woman Cesaria Evora was discovered singing her mornas in a dusty bar in Mindelo. These days Evora must be one of her country’s biggest exports. Ignored until her fifties, she suddenly sold over 200E000 copies of Miss Perfumado, which […]

Bob Woolmer >From the Pavilion I really get upset when I hear and read bickering within my own game. I was going to use the words “petty bickering” to start, but when it gets to the level of the president of the United Cricket Board (UCB) resigning, then petty goes out of the window and […]

Barry Streek The Minister of Education, Kader Asmal, has lodged a formal complaint with the Public Protector, Selby Baqwa, about endemic inertia in the government and suggested “massive tutoring” of state officials to make them more efficient. “Generally, my feeling is that there is a pervasive culture of delay in the government, largely inherited from […]

FOURTEEN people were killed and 11 were injured when a lorry packed with people and produce plunged off a bridge into a river near Calulo in Angola’s Cuanza-Sul province, LUSA news agency reported on Thursday. Most of the casualties in the Luime river accident were travelling traders on their way to the town of Dondo […]

Web Watch At www.dogdoo.com you can send, anonymously of course, a box of dog turds to your worst enemy. It’s worth visiting just to read the thank-you letters and recommendations. Fan clubs, theatre troupes, football teams and similar groups can get organised on the Web using the free service at www.SmartGroups.com. Features include a message […]

flashpoints Jubie Matlou A: Eastern Cape/KZN cross-border district council Resistance to the demarcation border proposal has triggered some of the bloodiest conflicts since the 1960 Pondo peasant revolt. At least seven people have been killed in the Lusikisiki area, alongside the provincial border with KwaZulu-Natal. The cross-border proposal seeks to bring together the Eastern Cape […]

Jubie Matlou Who are … Tumi Makgabo, Charles Mogale and Jeremy Maggs? For a woman who earns her living by talking, current affairs presenter Tumi Makgabo was surprisingly cagey about her prospects of joining Ted Turner’s Cable News Network (CNN). For Makgabo (25), Atlanta beckons with not just the promise of life captured by Coca- […]