Touring Zairean superstar Papa Wemba talks to GWEN ANSELL about fashion, music and his African roots PAPA WEMBA is quiet but emphatic. ”Please, I don’t want to talk about le sape. The French press have made a great noise about my clothes, but my first identity is as a musician.” Zaireans, of course, are great […]
THEATRE: Bafana Khumalo ‘KING Kong would have made it to the top,” declares a young, upwardly mobile black man as he throws out his collection of Temptations, Jimmy Hendrix and Jackson Five records, ”if only he had used the elevator. Instead, he drew attention to his struggle and ended up dead.” Another, dressed as a […]
Rehana Rossouw PROFESSOR Kader Asmal, chair of Parliament’s Ethics Committee, this week challenged Western Cape Premier Hernus Kriel to reveal full details of his estate disclosed in his divorce action. Asmal said Kriel had established ”crude new norms” by referring to President Nelson Mandela’s personal wealth. Therefore, Kriel’s role in private and public life should […]
Julian Drew PAULO GUERRA of Portugal was the second European home in last year’s world 10 000m final in Gothenburg, finishing eighth, one place behind Germany’s Stephane Franke. Ahead of them were the might of Ethiopia, Kenya and Morocco, the untouchables of world middle distance running. But for Guerra the world championships and track racing […]
This is how the Virginia Regional Court apportioned fines arising from the Merriespruit slimes dam disaster: l Harmony Gold Mine: R120 000 l Former Harmony manager Dan Jordaan: R15 000 l Harmony metallurgical engineer Johan Mouton: R8 000 l Harmony plant superintendent Wayne Hatton- Jones: R8 000 l Engineering company Fraser Alexander: R150 000 l […]
Those responsible for the Merriespruit slimes dam disaster have been fined … a pittance. Bronwen Jones and Justin Pearce report Harmony Gold Mine, found guilty of culpable homicide in the Merriespruit slimes dam disaster, is to pay a fine equivalent to one fifth of one percent of the mine’s post-tax profits for last year. The […]
Eddie Koch A KEY witness in the Magnus Malan trial has provided details of the close-knit relationship between military officers who ran clandestine supply lines to Renamo rebels in Mozambique and the covert plan to use Inkatha as a surrogate offensive force against the ANC inside South Africa. One of JP Opperman’s rare outbursts in […]
The Mail & Guardian has received exclusive documents detailing IBA salary packages. Jacquie Golding-Duffy reports Chairman of the Portfolio Committee on Communications, Saci Macozoma, emphatically denied this week that a gravy train existed at the Independent Broadcasting Authority. He said his committee would not be drawn into the salary issue and would not get involved […]
Does the SABC have the right to decide what is or isn’t savoury advertising? Jacquie Golding- Duffy reports on “code orange” Before the launch of the new South African Broadcasting Corporation in February, the corporation was banning what they thought to be unsavoury advertisements. A month after the launch, the SABC continues to censor. Prior […]
Annicia Reddiar When basketball player and rapper Shaquille O’Niel tells us that Pepsi is the “choice of the new generation”, and Natural Born Killers Juliette Lewis look-alike pulls on a pair of Levi’s in a public toilet, the common denominator is not only memorable advertisements. It also shows that we are worthy of being courted. […]