Shaun de Waal Art movie of the week South African writer Damon Galgut’s novel, on which Belgian director Marion Hnsel’s film The Quarry is based, is a spare, hauntingly oblique work. The main character is known simply as ”the man”: as the film begins, he is on the run, but why, and from what, we […]
Tangeni Amupadhi IN CONFLICT by Anthony Feinstein (David Philip) In Conflict is one man’s account of how he compromised his own beliefs to fight in defence of apartheid. Anthony Feinstein put off national service in the then South African Defence Force (SADF) by going straight from school to university, where he became increasingly convinced that […]
Struan Douglas samples jazz laced with scratches and strains of avant-garde funk alongside the predictable standards and retrospectives.
MOZAMBIQUE needs about $300 million to reconstruct the 600km Sena railway line that suffered damage during the country’s 16-year civil war that ended in 1992. The country’s president, Joaquim Chissano was quoted on Monday as saying Mozambique is talking to potential investors from the United States, China and Italy to provide financing for the reconstruction […]
SUPERSPORT, the televison sports giant, has bought 40% of rugby’s Natal Sharks. SuperSport and the Natal Rugby Union have formed a new firm to handle all the province’s professional rugby interests, including the Sharks and the Natal Wildebeest. SuperSport MD Russell Macmillan called Natal the “Manchester United of the rugby world”, praising its professionalism. SuperSport […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.30pm. THE Department of Sports and Recreation will not be wielding the big stick as far as sporting quotas are concerned, Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour said at a Johannesburg press conference on Thursday. However, Balfour said, a meeting of all the major sporting representatives which would include the National Olympic […]
LESOTHO lodged a formal objection with the Southern African Development Community on Monday, complaining that the kingdom’s Prime Minister, Pakalithi Mosisili, was excluded from the African economic summit in Durban. Lesotho Foreign Affairs Minister Tom Thabane said on Monday that the SADC’s secretariat in Gaborone invited the country’s finance minister, Leketekate Ketso, to the summit […]
SIX teenagers have been arrested for raping a 28-year-old Brazilian journalist in Johannesburg over the weekend. The youths, aged between 17 and 19, are suspected of raping the journalist on Friday, about 14 hours after she arrived in South Africa in transit to another African country. police said they had found what they believed to […]
PREMIERSHIP side AmaZulu may get new owners from down under after negotiations between current majority shareholder Dan Naidoo and a New Zealand consortium. The group is headed by New Zealander Greg Doolan, and has reached an agreement in principle pending the deposit of money into Naidoo’s account. Doolan tried to buy some of Moroka Swallows, […]
ANGLO-DUTCH oil giant Shell has ordered two mobile flowstations for its Nigerian operations at a combined cost of $40-million, a Shell official said on Wednesday. The Italian company ABB Soimi and a Nigerian-United States joint venture ABNL/Baker Hughes picked up the two contracts, said the official. The flowstations are to be used to pump oil […]