Dedicated to providing the people of Alexandra with hard-hitting local news, ALX.FM is proving that interactive radio is what people want. Itumeleng oa Mahabane reports RAP star and erstwhile self-proclaimed hip-hop thugster Tupac Shakur hangs placidly from a wall in the studio booth at ALX.FM. The poster carries the title of his latest album, Me […]

Change is not new at Eskom, although it faces some novel challenges. Reg Rumney reports PEERING down into the garden of the cavernous three-storey atrium at the centre of the Megawatt Park HQ, with its hanging baskets of greenery, one is struck by the scale of what has been dubbed Eskom’s hanging gardens of Babylon. […]

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser TWO outstanding soloists and an orchestra still inspired by Gerard Korsten’s recent visit marked the first two concerts conducted by Vladimir Simkine, the Russian conductor currently on the podium in front of the National Symphony First Tasmin Little gave a breathtakingly lyrical account of Beethoven’s violin concerto. Her articulation was always […]

AND at the end of the week, does it really seem any less important than it did in the instant 1 000-megawatt surge of collective astonishment on Monday night? Absolutely not; indeed if anything, it seems more important rather than less. Re-viewing the interview with the Princess of Wales two things are clear. First, it […]

South African abolitionists just found an unlikely ally, reports David Beresford OPPONENTS of capital punishment have found a powerful new ally: the country’s police chief, George Fivaz, who has seen the light … not on the road to Damascus, but in Denmark. The possibility that capital punishment – outlawed by the Constitutional Court – will […]

With lucrative contracts on offer, the temptation is great for Springbok players to switch to rugby league, especially those who weren’t in the World Cup squad RUGBY:Jon Swift THE Jacques Olivier affair has had the effect of making the mantle of world champions start to fray at the edges. In the wake of the 24-14 […]

Leon Perlman COMPUTICKET, the national computerised entertainment and leisure reservation service, has teamed up with service provider Internet Africa to provide an Internet booking service to cinema patrons on a 24-hour booking basis. Developed by Internet Africa’s World Wide Web service division, the service is an extension of Computicket’s telephone reservation system. According to Mike […]

WHAT happens when Mandela goes? The concern underlying the question becomes even more acute when one considers his performance over the last week. As the president’s stature continues to grow, so does the likely vacuum when he finally and voluntarily bows out of the political arena. Mandela is deserving only of praise for the way […]

BALLET: Stanley Peskin MORE than a century after The Nutcracker was first conceived for the Maryinsky Theatre at St Petersburg as part of the Christmas festivities in 1892, it continues to hold the stage. Andr Prokovsky’s production for Pact Ballet takes its impetus not only from Lev Ivanov, the ballet’s original choreographer, but also from […]

Bill Gates has committed his vision of the future to paper and it will appear in shops around the world today. Bruce Cohen takes a look at Gates’ roadmap to the information LET me state my heresy upfront: I like Bill Gates. I think the founder and chairman of Microsoft is a pretty smart guy. […]