Howard Barrell Over a Barrel An anarchic British pop group of the 1970s – called, I think, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Daa Band – used to play a time-travel trick on commuters on the London Tube. It involved the band getting hold of the newspapers from a particular day, say 20 years earlier, and then stepping […]

listed on website for deadbeats South Africa’s leading black `wine ambassador’ is listed on an American `Deadbeat Hall of Shame’ Internet site for not paying child support. Cliff Matheson and Justin Arenstein report He is world renowned as South Africa’s leading black “wine ambassador”, but Jabulani Ntshangase has a shady secret. He is featured in […]

RETIEF Goosen, a member of South Africa’s Alfred Dunhill Cup-winning doubles golf team, withdrew from the South African PGA Championship after the first round on Thursday. Tournament officials said Goosen has a fractured left arm, the legacy of a skiing accident in Switzerland over Christmas, and it has not healed enough for him to continue. […]

Just a week ago economists were hailing the rand’s recovery. Brazil this week dashed their hopes, writes Donna Block The nightmare scenario world economic leaders have struggled to avoid has begun. Brazil has hit the slippery slopes of destitution. China, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile and South Korea may follow. The world economy looks set to head […]

Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week `God, yet another pooftah movie,” groaned a fellow critic at the preview of Turkish Bath last week. Well, yeah, gay and lesbian cinema is booming – even the studios are making films with homosexual themes. Universal Pictures made To Wong Foo, an inferior drag queen movie with Wesley Snipes […]

Marianne Merten Non-governmental agencies in Cape Town are growing increasingly sceptical of the police’s ability to end the violence in the Cape and many are formulating new plans to stop the conflict. Several observers said that at the heart of the problem was the increasing politicisation of policing in the Western Cape. In the run-up […]

David Beresford highlights aspects of FW de Klerk’s soon to be released autobiography, in which the former state president describes his stormy relationship with the `vicious’ Nelson Mandela Former state president FW de Klerk has prepared a broadside against President Nelson Mandela in their long-running feud over their respective places in history, with his long-awaited […]

Edward Helmore Dreams of riches from entertainment bonds, to be secured against future royalty earnings, seem to be turning to dust. Japanese investment house Nomura Securities has closed the entertainment securities division in which it put so much hope. Its flamboyant head, Ethan Penner, has been fired. His partner in the scheme, former Eagles manager […]