Sechaba ka Nkosi A controversial deal brokered between the SABC and MultiChoice to alter satellite television in South Africa has been put on ice. The move follows a detailed protest memo to the broadcasting ministry from the SABC’s main signal distributor, Sentech, and a series of meetings among stakeholders. Questions have also been raised about […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 1.20pm. THE Moerane commission into alleged irregularities in the department of former Gauteng safety and security MEC Jessie Duarte said on Thursday that there is a strong suspicion that Duarte was implicated in a cover-up of the accident she was involved in while driving her official vehicle. “However, a suspicion, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 7.00pm. AN inquest into the murder of Cape Flats drug-lord and gang leader Rashied Staggie, on Thursday heard evidence in Cape town that the group responsible for his death, Pagad, at the time considered the murder to be a military operation. A police operative Captain David Africa told the […]
Phillip Kakaza CD of the week The title of Tony Cox’s latest CD, Looking for Zim (Sheer Sound) could be confusing to many jazz enthusiasts, more especially when we know that he’s fond of collaborating with various musos in studio projects. So, make no mistake, Looking for Zim is not about Cox’s search for jazz […]
David Hirst The Sudanese opposition, a broad coalition of African southerners and Arab Muslim northerners known as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), held a conference in Cairo this month to plan the next stage of its struggle against the Khartoum government. It is the first time Egypt has hosted such a gathering, and it is […]
Who is . . . George Soros? Larry Elliott It’s 7.45pm on the evening of September 16 1992. Night is falling and the chancellor of the exchequer, an ashen-faced Norman Lamont, nervously runs his hands through his hair as the flashbulbs pop. After a day of disaster in which the Bank of England’s foreign currency […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week The Coen brothers – Joel and Ethan – made their first movie efforts on 8mm while they were kids, doing remakes of famous Hollywood movies they had seen. Eventually they did a pilot for a noir comedy-thriller, Blood Simple, and managed to gather enough money to film 30 minutes […]
Suzy Bell attends the annual celebrations of the appearance or birth of Lord Krishna, the supreme deity who revealed the Bhagavad Gita Steeped in sacred ceremony and ritual, over 50 000 Hare Krishna devotees, some from as far afield as Poland and Australia, immersed themselves in the three-day festival of Sri Krishna Janmastami last weekend. […]
Charl Blignaut On stage in Johannesburg If what it takes for a talented young black co-writer and director to get his latest play mounted on the main stage at the Market Theatre is a Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Drama, an acclaimed United States tour and an artistic directorship at the North West arts […]
Jon Qwelane Right to Reply The trouble with the Mail & Guardian’s editor and his small coterie of executives is their apparent obsession with the fallacy that they hold copyright on what is true and correct. Pontificating from their lofty ivory tower, they seem to have forgotten (or actually never even knew) two simple points: […]