Laura Cumming Whoever would have guessed that John Banville’s Faustian murderer, Freddie Montgomery (now calling himself Morrow) would appear in a third novel as a middle-aged suitor, hard of breath, prone to tears and lewd with wonder at his own tumescence? Well, he’s in Athena (Secker & Warburg). A staggered old bull, he calls himself, […]
Paul Dixon and Nicola Gain Foreign investment is on the increase. While falling short=20 of pre-election hype, the tide is changing, with inward=20 investment is gaining strong momentum. United States firms have taken the lead — not surprising=20 since they disinvested heavily during the 1980s.=20 Current activity may only be the tip of the iceberg, […]
Pearl Connor NATHAN ”Dambuza” Mdledle, who has died aged 72, was the lead singer with The Manhattan Brothers, and found fame in Britain when he starred in the Fifties musical King Kong. Blessed with a magnificent baritone voice, good looks and a charming manner, Mdledle was the spokesman for the group. The son of an […]
SOCCER: Gerald Combrinck AGAINST all odds, league champions Orlando Pirates survived=20 a psychological war and “dirty tricks” campaign mounted=20 against them in their trip to Nigeria two weeks ago.=20 So it would be fair to say the Pirates have every right to=20 make life difficult for their opponents, BCC Lions, when=20 the two clubs meet […]
THE Post Office appears to be going from bad to worse in=20 the delivery of items.=20 Despite all sorts of marketing commitments in the press=20 over the last few months to the effect that delivery times=20 would be measurable, and “accountable”, the entire service=20 appears close to collapse. I am just one of many businesspeople […]
With prize money on offer in the Comrades Marathon for the=20 first time this year, foreign runners, especially the=20 Russians, are a big threat to local athletes ROAD RUNNING: Julian Drew T HIS year will be one that the Comrades Marathon=20 traditionalists will rue, but just like King Canute they=20 were unable to prevent the […]
With the opening match against the formidable Australians=20 less than a week away, the South=20 African team is buckling down to the task ahead RUGBY: Jon Swift IT is ironic that a game which was for so long considered a=20 symbol of the repression of the aspirations of this=20 country’s citizens should have assumed such […]
The Department of State Expenditure is considering using=20 hi-tech methods to get to grips with the tricky task of=20 transforming its almost exclusively white male staff to=20 something more representative of all South Africans. Director General Hannes Smit this week told the=20 parliamentary finance committee that he had been unable to=20 fill vacancies in his […]
Three new books on the 1950s freeze history in photographs,=20 HAZEL FRIEDMAN. Is this a valuable lesson or just wallowing=20 in nostalgia? FOR each of us there is a special time and place on which=20 is indelibly stamped the word “golden”. Part reality, part=20 myth — the rough edges and contradictions blurred by=20 memory — […]
Classical Music: Coenraad Visser ANTON NEL, the South African pianist now attached to the=20 University of Michigan, concluded his stay with the=20 National Symphony Orchestra with a pedestrian performance=20 of Bartok’s third piano concerto. Playing from the score,=20 Nel showed strong and nimble fingers, but not much else.=20 This concerto finds the composer at his […]