Ricardo Dunn Every Thursday from 8:30 to 9:30pm, the airwaves of Western Cape’s Bush radio 89.5 fm are tickled pink with an hour of gay programming. Africa’s only “queer” radio programme is a serious exercise in “camp” dialogue and commitment to positive images of gay people. In the Pink, a programme produced by and for […]

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser ANOTHER stunning French pianist, another enterprising programme, another accomplished conductor, another triumph. Cecile Ousset first visited South Africa long before she became a household name in countries like Britain. Here for the first time in many years, with the National Symphony Orchestra, she gave a performance of Saint- Saens’s second piano […]

Finishing 30th in a world championship event may not sound like much, but for young South African Alexander Heath it is a sign of future greatness, writes Julian Drew A FEW years ago Italian ski legend Alberto Tomba declared himself “the messiah of skiing”. In the Sierra Nevada mountains of Andalusia last week he lived […]

STEVE GORDON, organiser of several music tours to South Africa, explains why the Cape Town jazz festival collapsed — and how to put together a successful event ANNOUNCED by Captour in 1994 as “the biggest- ever jazz festival in Africa”, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, which collapsed last week, had already tasted controversy a […]

Carlo Gibson’s art is interactive — so why, asks HAZEL FRIEDMAN, isn’t the viewer allowed to participate? ACCESSING Carlo Gibson’s realm means entering a land where the literal and the obtuse sometimes meet in a muddled embrace. His first solo show — at the Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, at the Market in Newtown — promises […]

The Budget must set the stage for investment growth if Thabo Mbeki’s ambitious employment plan is to succeed, writes Madeleine Wackernagel Thabo Mbeki’s ambitious blueprint for economic growth and job creation brings into sharp focus the need for the “right” Budget on March 13. Without the building blocks to encourage foreign and local investment, the […]

Justin Pearce SOMEWHERE in the suburbs of Pretoria, religious prejudices have collided with a roadsign. Last year, the directorate of roads erected signs on the N1 Eastern Bypass indicating a recommended speed limit for night driving. The signs show a crescent moon and a star together with the recommended speed. Then suddenly, towards the end […]

Sipo Mzimela, the Minister of Correctional Services and IFP national deputy chairman, in The Mark Gevisser Profile IF KwaZulu-Natal premier Frank Mdlalose is the bluff country doctor of Zulu ethnicist politics, then the Reverend Sipo Mzimela is its fire- breathing priest. He looks like the archetypal avuncular Anglican cleric, right down to his ecumenical sideburns […]

A tortuous series of irrelevant preambles is being played before getting down to the real nitty-gritty of the World Cup CRICKET: Vic Marks THE match between England and South Africa should have been a crucial, spine-tingling affair, but such is the ludricrous format of this World Cup that it is little more than a form […]

Last week’s article by Louise Flanagan on Military Intelligence attempts to recruit future Minister of Defence Joe Modise in the early 1990s has provoked a furious row. Here, Deputy Defence Minister Ronnie Kasrils responds — as does the reporter HAVING distinguished itself as a bastion of the free press, and for many years under siege […]