censorship were over? Brenda Atkinson As the second Johannesburg Biennale limped into the early weeks of 1998, it seemed for a while that post- international-schmoozing stress disorder might have taken the tart out of art. Fatigued by working, networking, or just plain complaining, contemporary artists countrywide curled into introspection for the first half of the […]

JG Ballard:The most interesting novel of the year was Alex Garland’s The Tesseract, a moody psychological tale set in the Philippines, and an intriguing follow-up to his bestselling The Beach. Could Garland be the new Graham Greene? He is now 28, Greene’s age when he wrote Stamboul Train. Will Garland head for the Hollywood Hills […]

dream of freedom Anthony Holiday If the year 2000 marks the border of humankind’s entry into a futuristic fantasy, then the year 1999 places us on the fringes of that reverie. It will be a year of a dream about a dream wherein we taste the first false fruits of the promised land of an […]

Much like a father at the birth of his first child, most politicians who reach the top flirt, at least briefly, with an image of their own immortality. And it is one of those irritating paradoxes of which religious people are so fond, that to live on beyond our own deaths a little, a large […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pietermaritzburg | Tuesday 5.30pm. THE touring West Indies have drawn their four day match against South Africa “A” at the Pietermaritzburg Oval on Tuesday. The Windies were pushed along to 95/3 with a quick second-wicket partnership of 62 off just 80 balls before bad light stopped play as on the previous days. All […]

SOUTH AFRICAN road deaths totalled 455 on Wednesday from December 1, according to Johann Kilian of Arrive Alive. The toll stands at 151 drivers, 167 passengers and 137 pedestrians. The season has brought 313 fatal accidents. Most of the road deaths were reported in KwaZulu-Natal, with 90, followed by 67 in Gauteng, 59 in the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, | day 11.00m. SIERRA Leonean rebels launched an attack some 30km from the capital on Tuesday, the commander of the Nigerian-led intervention force, Ecomog, reported. General Timothy Shelpidi said the attack took place in Waterloo, which lies at a strategic junction linking the Freetown peninsula to the country’s interior. In a radio broadcast, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Tuesday 5.45pm. UNITA rebels in Angola were on Tuesday shelling the strategic town of Kuito, in the central Bie province, where several dead and wounded were reported. Shelling continued late into the morning. Numerous people were wounded when the Sao Jose de Clunny secondary school was hit, while bodies lay on […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, The Hague | Tuesday 12.00pm. THE Libyan suspects in the Lockerbie bombing case will only face trial in an “international court,” Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi said in an interview with Dutch television broadcast on Monday. This means a trial by Scottish judges is out of the question. “An international court is the solution, […]