Krisjan Lemmer Great excitement in the Dorsbult Bar when word circulated that the California multi-millionaire, Deepak Chopra, was in town. Deepak, as everyone knows, is guru to California and all its hangers-on, including Hillary Clinton, Michael Jackson, George Harrison, Liz Taylor and Demi Moore – the latter of whom announced, after consulting him, that she […]
M-Net’s loud, irreverent youth music service Channel O could receive its biggest boost yet after ongoing but thus far disappointing negotiations with the SABC to take advantage of its free-to-air status. Channel O programming is said to be ready to headline the pay channel’s Open Time, which is changing its appearance radically from July. The […]
Ronald Suresh Roberts THE HOUSE GUN by Nadine Gordimer (David Philip, R99,95) PARADISE by Toni Morrison (Chatto & Windus, R110) ‘Little illegal niggers with guns and no home training need to be in jail,” says a black resident of a blacks-only town, in Toni Morrison’s Paradise. Conversely, in Nadine Gordimer’s The House Gun, young white […]
Gwen Ansell On Thursday March 19, the annual Windybrow Festival kicks off: the usual mix of dance, drama and music with a heavy emphasis on youth. As far as the music goes, opening night features singer Ringo Madlingozi, with material from his latest album Sondelani: an indication that this festival is following a slightly different […]
IN BRIEF LESOTHO PM IN HOSPITAL LESOTHO Prime Minister Ntsu Mokhehle, 79, was admitted to the Morningside clinic in Johannesburg on Thursday afternoon. The nature of his illness is unknown, but Mokhehle has been ill for some time. Mokhehle declared himself unavailable for Lesotho’s May 23 elections because of ill health and old age. He […]
Mail & Guardian reporter An incident of ugly on-air sexism on the Afrikaans commercial radio station, Punt Geselsradio, has ended on a happy note. The manne at the station have agreed to write a gender policy and to take lessons from organisations that have offered to train them in gender sensitivity. “We subscribe to an […]
Suzy Bell: In your ear It’s hard not to be impressed with East Coast Radio’s Newswatch team what with the catchy effervescence of the station’s news manager, Mary Papayya. When the station went commercial in May last year, Papayya was snapped up from the SABC where she served as an executive producer at Radio Lotus. […]
Coenraad Visser: On stage in Pretoria Two productions, one traditional, the other innovative; one a confident affirmation of established opera values, the other an equally confident glance at the future of opera in this country. The productions are Rigoletto by the State Theatre Opera in Pretoria and Cape Town Opera’s La BohSme: Noir at the […]
A small ‘sacred city’ in the Karoo is South Africa’s window on to the universe, writes Ruben Mowskowski One gets to the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) at Sutherland by driving up the N1 from Cape Town until the ground becomes dry and flinty and the bushes sparse and then, after about three hours, you […]
Your headline “White males face the chop” (March 6 to 12), and key elements of the accompanying article, give a completely misleading impression of our employment equity policy. I use this opportunity to re-emphasise a point that was almost lost in the presentation of the article: “No one at the University of Cape Town (UCT) […]