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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
THE Joint Bilateral Commission of South Africa and Iran will meet in Tehran on April 10 and 11 1999, to be attended by Minister of Foreign Affairs Alfred Nzo and delegations from the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Industry and the Credit Guarantee Insurance Corporation of Africa. Nzo will meet Iranian President Mohammad Khatami […]
AUSTRALIAN rugby union chief John O’Neill said Wednesday he will seek a fair selection process for referees at October’s World Cup during next week’s International Rugby Board meeting in Buenos Aires. ARU managing director O’Neill wants the IRB to establish standard worldwide interpretations of the tackle and advantage rules. There has been concern here that […]
AUTHORITIES in Malawi fear there will be a drastic drop in tobacco production this year, due to an increase in the price of inputs that forced many growers out of the industry, according to the Tobacco Association of Malawi. Tama chief classifier Gasper Banda said the organisation expects about 90-million kilograms of burley tobacco this […]
NATIONAL carrier Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA) said on Wednesday it is examining steps to resume international flights after the United Nations suspended a seven-year air embargo on Tripoli. “Technical committees will be set up to examine putting Libyan planes back into service,” LAA president Mohammad Abssim told reporters in Cairo, where two of LAA’s 12 […]
A FIRE in the Drakenstein mountains in the Western Cape hit the Franschhoek valley on Wednesday, destroying workers’ cottages and forcing their evacuation. The air force said three helicopters from 22 Squadron are assisting nature conservation authorities for a second day. The fire, which has been burning for over two weeks now, forced the closure […]
THE South African Municipal Workers’ Union on Wednesday demanded the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council immediately stops its Igoli 2002 programme to revamp the Johannesburg central business district. Samwu said the plan has been hatched without any consultation with the city’s poor, and violates a national agreement on municipal restructuring concluded last year. The union threatened […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela ended his visit to Oman on Thursday by saying he is keen to see an institute for Gulf studies created in his country, the sultanate’s official ONA news agency said. The institute “is needed to promote a better understanding, not only in the political and economic fields, but also cultural,” he told […]