Alex Duval Smith reports on the United States president’s visit to a continent reborn as a trading partner Bill Clinton’s six-nation tour of Africa next week – the first by a serving United States president for almost 20 years – will reward good book-balancers and strategic friends. But it will also lay bare mixed African […]
Charlene Smith As U2 “rattle and hum” their way through their second South African concert this weekend, a bitterly divided music industry argues for the crumbs from a financially squeezed R1-billion entertainment industry. While Computicket managing director Jeff Carel says big acts like U2 bring in small takings (but large credibility for concert promoters), Howard […]
David Beresford: Tribute to Basil Coetzee It’s hard to say a last goodbye to a musician; harder still when his gaunt face is in a coffin on a linoleum floor, his tenor saxophone – its silver patina worn through by his once-busy fingers – resolutely silent in its place of honour up on the stage. […]
FRIDAY, 9.00AM: THE North-West provincial government decided on Thursday to close Vryburg High School, scene of racial clashes between black and white pupils and parents. The scholl is effectively being closed early for the Easter holidays, which were to begin on April 1. Said David van Wyk, spokesman for North-West Premier Popo Molefe: “It was […]
Pallo Jordan: CROSSFIRE ‘Twilight,” my friend Karl-Heinz explained, “is the quintessential dialectical concept. It is the transition from light to darkness, from day to night. It tells us also that both day and night are but moments in a continuing cycle during which each day i s transformed into its opposite by the passage of […]
Mungo Soggot The offshore branch of embattled mining company Amalia is still enthusiastically punting the company’s London listing, trumpeting its exclusive deal to exploit Liberia’s mineral wealth – despite the fact Liberia has threatened to kill the deal. “It’s a $750-million deal – their main asset. It’s theirs unless there is a coup. Nobody can […]
Brett Davidson Auckland Park’s education division is forging ahead on a number of fronts, laying the foundations for the future of public service broadcasting. It is forming innovative and complex relationships with the government and other stakeholders, promoting local production and lobbying against the increasing pressure towards commercialisation. “There are some educational programmes that can […]
Brett Davidson William Smith’s Learning Channel on SABC3 is probably one of the best-known educational programmes on television and one of the most controversial among educators. In its early days on TV, Smith’s channel incorporated hundreds of hours of recorded material, aimed at enlivening the learning experience, and helping students see the relevance of what […]
FRIDAY, 9.45AM: AMANDA COETZER, world women’s tennis number five, has confirmed that she will play in the $200 000 MTN Women’s Classic at the Northgate Dome from April 23-26. Coetzer was a doubtful starter for the tournament, as she was scheduled to defend her title at the Budapest Open, but a berth was kept open […]
Bongani SiqokoHuman Rights Day Speech-making politicians and music groups turning air into sound will compete for attention in Sharpeville at this weekend’s commemoration of the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. Youth development and cultural education are firmly on the Human Rights Day a genda of the township-based Ideas Exchange International (IEI). IEI executive director Nicho Ntema […]