FRIDAY, 6.30PM: AT stumps, South Africa were on 262/7 after 90 overs. FRIDAY, 5.30PM: SOUTH Africa were stuck with their backs against the wall on 157/5 at tea on the first day of the third Test against Pakistan at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth on Friday. Pakistani paceman Waqar Younis was the reason for […]
A craze for shark-cage diving has its dangers … for sharks, writes Ellen Bartlett The bartender from Miami is standing tall on the port side of the boat, face to the wind, eyes in a happy squint in the glare of the morning sun. “There’s bungee jumping, there’s jumping out of an airplane and there’s […]
Adam Haupt The University of Cape Town’s Contemporary African Music and Arts Archive (Cama) got its African Alchemy project started with a workshop, which was facilitated by musician, producer and artist Brian Eno. The obvious connection to be made here is with the forthcoming visit of mega pop group U2’s Popmart tour – Eno produced […]
Andrew Worsdale: Movie of the week If Barry Levinson had got hold of the script for Good Will Hunting he would have turned it into another Rain Man – mawkish, sentimental and filled with the kind of Hollywood gloss that makes a potentially touching story just seem unreal. So it’s a credit to producer Lawrence […]
Janet Smith On show in Pretoria When your eye first catches the glitter and runs over the roughness of the sand, you don’t see the exquisite miniatures occupying spaces that would otherwise reveal emptiness. On more intimate inspection, it becomes evident that there’s performance in every part of Motlhabane Mashiangwako’s The Efforts of Those Who […]
Andy Duffy Nine of the 10 deans at the University of Cape Town (UCT) are to be replaced as part of an aggressive affirmative action drive and management shake-up. The university is also putting all staff through rigorous performance checks, to weed out underachievers and free up posts for new black and female employees. All […]
Maria McCloy: CD of the week So you might be sick of the endless articles about spiritual, herbal tea-drinking and turbaned “Nu-Soul Queen” Erykah Badu. You might think that Baduizm Live (BMG), the live version of her beautiful 1997 album, Baduizm, is just the record company cashing in on her massive popularity. Maybe it is, […]
FRIDAY, 6.15PM: TRADING in the shares of Rand Merchant Bank, Southern Life Association, First National Bank Holdings and Momentum Life Holdings was suspended by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Friday at the request of the comapnies’ boards. The suspension came as discussions of a merger between Anglo American and RMB’s financial interests progressed. The various […]
Mukoni T Ratshitanga More than 200 striking farm workers, including 26 mothers and their babies, were arrested in the Northern Province for allegedly violated a high court ruling preventing them from intimidating colleagues. Their lawyer, Phillip Sebola, said the workers included three pregnant women, five of their visitors and 33 parents who had left children […]
Iden Wetherell Ignoring government threats of dire consequences, Zimbabwe’s workers this week stayed at home in response to calls for a peaceful protest against tax increases from trade union leaders who have proved once again that they represent a powerful challenge to President Robert Mugabe’s arthritic regime. The capital Harare and other major centres were […]