THURSDAY, 11.00AM: SOUTH Africa’s most successful rugby coach, Kitch Christie, died on Wednesday evening in Pretoria aged 58 after a long battle with cancer. Christie’s coaching record is still unsurpassed, with 14 games played and 14 games won, he is the only South African coach apart from Nick Mallett to sport an unbeaten record as […]
Casinos aim to capture 8% of the total disposable income of gamblers. David le Page explains how they work out the odds Out at the unsetting Sundome Casino on a Monday night, there’s no shortage of willing cash-cow customers hanging round the tables and lining up at the slots like Pavlovian dogs waiting for bells, […]
The father of African film, Ousmane Sembene, who is in South Africa developing a new movie about the effects of colonialism on Africa, spoke to Bafana Khumalo Many an African liberation fighter has made the journey to the land of the Russians, to learn the art of shooting. So has Ousmane Sembene, the Senegalese novelist […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM: KAIZER Chiefs beat Qwa-Qwa Stars 2-0 in a ho-hum performance at the Johannesburg Stadium on Wednesday night. Chiefs were far from impressive, but still won the match in their usual display of mediocre but effective soccer. Chiefs looked far from the club most likely to snatch the Castle Premiership victory from Mamelodi Sundowns […]
With its production of Faust, Opera Africa has taken an elitist art form back to its origins – passionate, bawdy fun. Alex Sudheim reports `When I first saw a production of Faust it was in Durban about seven years ago – when we were still part of Europe,” says Andrew Verster drily. The famous painter, […]
Friday night :Brenda Atkinson Friday nights, as all Johannesburg’s near- jaded know, are no simple affair. Outbursts of spontaneous venue-crawling are likely to go unrewarded. Planning is everything. In the spirit of urban social conspiracy – theorists everywhere, my partner and I prepared well in advance. Playing 007 to my 003, on Tuesday he sent […]
LIBERIAN President Charles Taylor held private talks on Thursday with his Zambian counterpart Frederick Chiluba on the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Taylor said he is in Lusaka to consult the Zambian leader and support his peace efforts. The Liberian leader left Lusaka on Thursday morning for South Africa, where he is expected […]
The great bar-coded ID saga has finally ended. Kortbroek and Tony got a klap. And we can all (if we have our bar-coded ID) go and vote on June 2. The lawyers made a fortune and political parties have been taught that disputes of a political nature are best dealt with politically and not legally. […]
The mielie-seller The mielie-seller is perhaps the most quintessential South African image. Resident of both urban and rural worlds, she is also symbolic of a growing informal economy. Thabi Chauke wakes up at 4.30am. Her day is simple: she dispatches her 14-year-old daughter into a packed minibus. These ferry the children of the newly enfranchised […]
THE United Democratic Movement won its first by-election on Wednesday. The UDM’s Frederick Konstabel beat the African National Congress’s candidate by 258 votes to 148 in a by-election in Zoar in the Western Cape, UDM spokesman Dr Johna Steenkamp said on Thursday. The by-election was the third contested by the UDM. The New National Party […]