CD of the week Shaun de Waal One doesn’t quite get the band name. In any case, New Radicals (no “the”) appears to be less a band than composer/producer/singer Gregg Alexander doing his thing with a little enthusiastic help from his friends. And the title of his/their debut CD, Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too (MCA), […]
Sarah Hall It sounds like the answer to the prayers of drivers who can’t parallel park: a car so tiny it squeezes into spaces with its back or nose to the kerb. The Smart Car was launched last year in Europe, but manufacturers Daimler Benz and Swatch had no plans to introduce it in the […]
With South Africa’s second democratic elections concluded, it is clear that the country has reached the end of an era.
Review of the week Charl Blignaut `I hate theatre,” said my most cynical friend’s boyfriend as he gazed around the Market Theatre bar, taking in the crowd of monied folk out risking their cars to see Pieter-Dirk Uys downtown on a Saturday night at 6.30pm. “Why do you hate theatre?” I asked. My cynical friend […]
challenge If the bullion price stays at its current level for any length of time, South Africa could face even more severe unemployment, report Donna Block and Mungo Soggot One of the first major challenges for the Mbeki presidency will be the potentially massive ramifications for South Africa’s economy stemming from the collapse in the […]
Dance enthusiasts are in for a treat this year with 10 mainstream dance productions on show at the national arts festival, writes Andrea Vinassa Every journalist has done an interview that has resonated far beyond the immediate confines of tomorrow’s deadline. Mine was in 1992 with celebrated New York choreographer Bill T Jones. There we […]
IN BRIEF FRESH UGANDAN ATTACK A REBEL group which killed 80 students and abducted 50 more in western Uganda this week has struck again, killing five more people. The Allied Democratic Forces fighters killed a man, his two children and two Ugandan soldiers in Kabarole district on Wednesday. Earlier this week the ADF attacked a […]
The winner of the Lillian Hellman/Dashiell Hammet award is not a standard academic, reports Mercedes Sayagues Judged on her writings alone, Dr Patricia McFadden appears to be an African Valkyrie in metal breast-plates, who sees the world through rigid prisms of gender and race. But when you meet her, she is a warm woman with […]
Aids myths? Myths, quasi-myths and questions about Aids abound. Donald McNeil Jnr attempts to demystify the epidemic in Southern Africa Donald G McNeil Jnr Despite its size, South Africa is number one in the world in several fields: rugby, cricket, tuberculosis and Aids. One hears too little about the last two. In 1990, a New […]
Libby Young The last year has seen South African cyberspace grow up. The number of users has passed that crucial one million benchmark, Web addresses are starting to appear on bumper stickers and no business card is complete without an e-mail address. So what’s been happening to South Africa’s search engines? Newcomer Max, , from […]