Playing his own song in a huge American stadium is one of the highlights of Big Voice Jack life – and there’s a documentary film to prove it, writes Brendan Cooper Eighty thousand people can make a lot of noise, and when Dave Matthews leans in to his mic and says to the crowd, “Give […]
THURSDAY, 5.00PM: THE Zimbabwean government has ordered its auditors to investigate an “indigenous” private bank owned by controversial affirmative action campaigner Roger Boka, the Finance Ministry announced on Thursday. The urgent investigation comes after black-run United Merchant Bank closed its doors on Friday, sparking rumours that the bank is heading for a collapse due to […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week Money lust, capers gone wrong and innocent heroes caught up in crime are strong generic gimmicks in movies. Alfred Hitchcock excelled in the art of throwing innocent men into conspiratorial affairs. In North by Northwest he had Cary Grant as a light hearted advertising executive who’s abducted, framed and […]
DETAINED journalist Maha Hassan Ali was released by security officials in Khartoum Wednesday afternoon on a personal bail by the chairman of the Sudanese Journalists Union, Najeeb Adam. Adam said he and a delegation of the union had approached “a ranking security official” and secured her release. Maha and two male journalists were arrested early […]
Lyn Gardner Last month a little-known theatre group called Frantic Assembly played Singapore’s Zouk Club, described by dance guru Judge Jules as “the best club on the planet”. When they last played London, in the informal surroundings of the BAC theatre, the crowd looked like the overspill from one of the capital’s trendier nightclubs. That […]
Ann Eveleth South Africa’s “other half” – the rural poor – will descend on the birthplace of the African National Congress this weekend to thrash out a new charter demanding their fair share of the economic pie. Delegates from rural communities across the country will meet at the national Rural Convention in Bloemfontein to draft […]
Sarah Ryle At last an economics professor has done something useful. He has worked out that punters who chose the six least popular numbers from the British National Lottery’s list of 49 stand to make an average weekly return of 11% on their stakes. The magic numbers – 36, 41, 46, 47, 48 and 49 […]
Marianne Merten The Western Cape’s top detective and one of the key investigators of the anti-urban terrorism campaign Operation Good Hope, Director Leonard Knipe, is set to head a new unit investigating crimes against the state. His promotion was finalised last week despite criticism that Knipe has failed to effectively deal with the violence in […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube These nights I don’t feel much pressed to go out, looking for something I can very well experience in my lounge. With music playing on television through the night, I can read my books, do my drugs, make my love and drink myself to death without interruption, to some of […]
Ferial Haffajee CAPE TOWN: THE MAKING OF A CITY by Nigel Worden, Elizabeth van Heyningen and Vivian Bickford-Smith (David Philip) This is the history book I wish we had had at high school instead of the stiff set work that was so historically incorrect that it was laughable even to us teenagers. Cape Town, according […]