With Colin Montgomerie in top form, the experienced European team can wrest the Ryder Cup back from the United States GOLF: Jon Swift THE shift of power — or rather the power to win consistently in top company — from being a wholly owned subsidiary of Golf USA is perhaps nowhere better evidenced than in […]

Cinema: Justin Pearce Rue Princesse, by Ivorian director Henri Duparc, appears at first like a made-for-television movie. It takes the form of an extended situation comedy with a judicious dose of sticky moments, escapist glamour and mild sexual innuendo — not to mention a happy ending. But its script has an edge to it that […]

SHAUN DE WAAL listens to the music of Isma’l Lo, about to tour SA, and that of his compatriot, Baaba Maal IN the panoply of African music, special honours must go to the west-coast/Sahel countries, chiefly francophone, which have given us their distinctive version of the African sound and such greats as Salif Keita, Mory […]

Some shops at Johannesburg’s airport may be grounded because they are overcharging for their goods, writes Lungile Madywabe SOME duty-free shops at Jo-hannesburg International Airport have been ripping off airline passengers and a shake-up has been pro-mised. Overcharging has been conceded by the Airports Company, the government-owned company which owns all the country’s airports, in […]

The Skweyiya Commission, which examined corruption and political destabilisation in the former Bophuthatswana homeland, should set an example for other provincial governments, argues Dr John Seiler BOPHUTHATSWANA’S only president, Lucas Mangope, has taken to the political hustings with the cynical, self-serving argument that only he, of all former homeland leaders, has been subjected to an […]

Ruth Sack SCHOOL outings to the museum … Does this conjure up dark images of well- meaning but remote guides leading footsore trails of children? If so, you must be a bit of a museum-piece yourself. Because things have been changing. At the Johannesburg Art Gallery, education officer Dammon Rice is developing a programme in […]

Concerns have been raised that German funding is being used for IFP paramilitary purposes, report Paul Stober, Marion Edmonds, Eddie Koch and Ann Eveleth Evidence has emerged that the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) plans to rebuild its paramilitary and intelligence capabilities — using German funds earmarked for development — ahead of a possible showdown with […]

Rehana Rossouw THERE’S a new way of describing women who challenge male domination at Safety and Security headquarters in Pretoria: the women are told they are “doing a The Zelda being referred to is Zelda Holtzman, a thirtysomething from Cape Town who in June became the highest-ranking black woman in South African police She was […]

Craig Hedderwick ARTS ALIVE this year has a particularly lively dance component — a 24-day celebration and exploration of the diverse styles of South African dance, to be held at the Dance Factory in Newtown. More than 300 performers will present a feast of contemporary, African and jazz dance. The entire spectrum of dance culture […]

Karen Harveson Over the next two decades, three-quarters of world trade will take place in the emerging markets, of which South Africa is one. Speaking at a Bell, Dewar and Hall presentation on trade and business in South Africa last week, United States Minister Counsellor for Commercial Affairs Millard Arnold said the US, along with […]