For a more critical analysis of imported beer, read BJ’s Imported Beer Drinkers’ Guide (R24,95). BJ Lankwarden, a self- confessed beer lover, has catalogued all the beer imported into South Africa. It has a breakdown of the beer’s origin, colour, alcohol percentage, strength, style of beer, a brief summary of its flavour, and, in some […]

From humble beginnings as a worker’s drink beer has become not only respectable, but hip, writes David Shapshak Lazy, hazy sun-filled days, beaches and bare flesh: these are the images that summer and beer conjure up – and rugby, let’s not forget where we are. But beer was once the little people’s drink, the common […]

Andrew Worsdale sampled some of the products and ideas on offer at the Second Film and TV Market, held in Cape Town If a tidal wave had hit Cape Town’s Long Street last week, most of the South African movie industry would have been wiped out. More than 1 500 local producers, directors, professional schmoozers […]

FRIDAY, 11.00AM: SPRINGBOK scrumhalf Joost van der Westhuizen is considering leaving the Blue Bulls after playing for them for the last seven seasons, because he feels his game is suffering. Van der Westhuizen said he is fearful of losing his Bok place ahead of the 1999 World Cup finals. “At this stage I don’t have […]

The editors of the Oxford English Dictionary gave us their own alternative key words for the past two decades: 1978 BMX, Teletext 1979 Space Invaders 1980 Reaganomics 1981 Walkman 1982 Exocet 1983 Star Wars 1984 Aids 1985 Yuppie 1986 Perestroika 1987 Freemarket, Black Monday 1988 Lager lout 1989 Poll tax 1990 Global warming 1991 Citizen’s […]

Melvyn Minnaar Together with vineyard virtuosos like Gyles Webb of Thelema, Beyers Truter of Kanonkop and Norma Ratcliff of Warwick, a new generation of winemakers is gaining more and more attention. At Stellenzicht, originally almost a second label to Neethlingshof, a confident and sometime controversial Andr van Rensburg is making wines for a new era. […]

Comment: Ronald Suresh Roberts Mere days after big business found itself on the sidelines as Parliament finalised employment-standards legislation, the performance of leading apartheid-era business players before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission raised fresh questions about business’s ability to make relevant contributions to the new South Africa. If business is to believed, its performance ranged […]

Marion Edmunds As in the movie Green Card, a Cape Town couple has challenged South African immigration officials to prove that they have not consummated their marriage. Moroccan baker Youssef Essakhi (24) says he is wildly in love with his wife Amina (62) and he is taking the government to court for denying him permanent […]

Sechaba ka’Nkosi For years the tiny townships of Ndaleni and Magoda in Richmond shared almost everything, from relatives and grazing lands to churches. But since April a simmering conflict has erupted into open enmity and now residents crossing the narrow road separating them do so at their own risk. At the heart of the fear […]

Angella Johnson It takes a small brigade of dedicated helpers, working around the clock, to help Minas Michael cope with his disabilities. And there is none more devoted than Simon Nkoana, a faithful retainer who worked in the family’s supermarket for 18 years. He acts as chauffeur, nurse, companion and friend. ”I love this kid […]