John Matshikiza With the Lid Off So what has changed in the past five years? I’ve seen quite a lot of this country recently, travelling both by road and by air. South Africa remains a highly peculiar place. In the air, the service has got much better, and the cabin crews no longer seem to […]
There’s retro, as in Oasis’s admiration for the Sixties, and there’s retro, as in Kula Shaker’s note-for-note reconstruction of them on their new album called Peasants, Pigs and Astronauts. This follow-up to their chart-topping debut, K, covers the same territory as before, mixing up shimmery, Hammond organ- infused psychedelia and a philosophy that boils down […]
Claude Kabemba A Second Look The rebellion against the government of President Laurent Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo stands at the crossroads. Divisions within the rebel Rassemblement Congolais pour la Democratie (RCD) movement and within the Uganda/Rwanda rebel alliance has placed a serious question mark on the ability of the rebels to win […]
David Shapshak You can’t help feeling as if someone is on the verge of saying: “Houston, we have a problem.” The main auditorium of the Pretoria showground has been commandeered by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and transformed into a hi-tech election nerve centre, complete with the buzz akin to Nasa-like rocket launches. More accustomed […]
It may be worth losing a few percentage points growth on your investments in exchange for a peaceful night’s sleep, writes Shaun Harris Investment decisions should be amoral, shouldn’t they? In a perfect world, perhaps. But suspending moral judgment is not easy in modern society where the profit motive is still widely regarded with suspicion […]
THE Angolan army has recaptured from rebels the small town of Cuima in the central Huambo province, officials said on Thursday. An army spokesman said 10 Unita rebels were killed in last week’s battle about 80km south of Huambo. The army also announced it has destroyed a Unita base in Caala, southwest of the provincial […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM: DESPITE a slight increase in new vehicle sales from April, May sales fell sharply compared to the corresponding period in 1997, reflecting the overall sluggishness in the economy and uncertainty in international markets. The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa now expects that an anticipated recovery in the vehicle sales market […]
A PASTOR from Rwanda’s Episcopal Church and a former army major were condemned to death for genocide Thursday by a special military tribunal, official radio announced from Kigali on Thursday. “The military court condemned to death gendarmerie major Anne-Marie Nyirahakizimana and pastor Anastase Ngirinshuti for genocide, murder and association with criminals,” the radio said. It […]
Food and Fine Art Andrew Putter Long Life is the new ramen bar under the Lounge in Long Street. Elegantly occupying a space which once housed the infamous Mau Mau artsite, it’s a narrow, high-ceilinged galley, minimally furnished with wood-slatted benches and a trendy front door. It’s exotic (ice with the Chinese beer), and the […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby `Every millisecond of the day the brain gets signals from sensors all over the body. It stores these signals along the sensory cortex, a kind of cerebral filing- cabinet with a drawer for each finger, lip, leg or arm and so on. “So, for example, when a finger is required to […]