And then there were Nine … Malu van Leeuwen spoke to four=20 alternative funksters creating a stir in Cape Town THE first time I met Nine, they dubbed their sound gham- rock, or, as one of their fans put it, “Cape Malay=20 alternative funk”. While drinking the pub dry, all four of=20 Nine expanded on […]
Allied Electronics Corporation (Altron) produced startling=20 results for the year to end-February, causing its share=20 price to reach a high of 1 000 cents — well up on last=20 year’s 700 cents a share. Since January 1993 the electronics sector has performed=20 abysmally. Now Altron’s results herald the return to=20 prominence of a sector which […]
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 […]
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 — […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gaye Davis A NEW “super-committee” aimed at slicing through red-tape and other obstacles hampering investigations into police violations of human rights is to be set up at national The move comes days after human rights organisations released a 300-page report charging that police torture of suspects on criminal charges was endemic and that other abuses […]