Once peopled by white males, expeditions to the wild places south of us are increasingly taking on black and female adventurers, writes Charl de Villiers No island, no matter how remote, is immune to South Africa’s “rainbow revolution”. The administrators of the South African National Antarctic Programme (Sanap) have just fielded the first black woman […]

ELEMENTS of separatist rebels in Senegal’s Casamance region have begun disarming, 16 years after a bloody war of independence broke out, the Sud Quotidien newspaper reported in Dakar on Wednesday. The Democratic Movement of Casamance Forces (MFDC), led by Augustin Diamacoune, began disarming as part of a restructuring exercise, the paper said. Hopes for peace […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Friday 6.00pm. DOUBLE Olympic gold medallist Penny Heyns swam her second fastest 200m breaststroke ever in 2:25,84 at the national swimming championships in Durban on Friday, just missing her Olympic and African mark of 2:25,41. Free State’s Ryk Neethling broke the African record in the men’s 100m freestyle, dramatically coming from […]

AFRICAN leaders were to meet in Luanda on Wednesday to review widening wars in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angolan state radio said. The radio quoted senior officials as saying Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and President Sam Nujoma of […]

CD of the week Greg Bowes Craig Armstrong arranged the strings on Massive Attack classics like Weather Storm and Sly, and almost everything about The Space Between Us, his orchestral debut for the Bristolian superstars’ label Melankolik, is breathtaking. Firstly, there’s the sleeve, which folds out to about half a metre in length and which […]

SOUTH Africa’s first black cricket international Mkhaya Ntini will have to wait two weeks before hearing his fate on a charge of rape. As the trial closed on Thursday, it was decided that judgment will be delivered on April 23. State advocate Nicky Turner called on the court to convict Ntini, saying the complainant was […]

David Shapshak She started off her career as homage to a topless dancer, but days later she was on the FBI’s most wanted list. Less than a week after that she’s the world’s fastest replicating, most well-known virus. Her name is Melissa and she could well be the enemy of the future. Last week police […]

Gospel functions as a musical chicken soup for the soul, writes Gail Smith, who recently touched higher ground to the sounds of Joyous Celebration A new brand of funky gospel has encroached on dance floors so stealthily that non- believers find themselves steeped in the groove before they even realise that they’re dancing to a […]

While the majority of the work on Mark Hipper’s Bad is beautiful, thought- provoking and intensely moving, a few pieces are of an uneven quality. This is not something a reviewer would normally highlight – there is so much here that is excellent, it would be stupid and churlish to risk discouraging anyone from a […]

SIX of the nine remaining untrained Tuli young elephants were moved on Thursday to a North-West game park, SABC radio news reports. The transfer of the animals to Sandhurst Safaris follows signature of an agreement between their owner Riccardo Ghiazza and the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The transfer […]