Bafana Khumalo WHAT the bloody hell am I doing here? I am on an Air Force base tarmac and am about to catch a cold from the rain that has been building up from a gentle drizzle to a serious body-drenching downpour. “Well, I am doing Gallagher and thereafter I don’t think that I am […]
Absent talent: Super 10 and World Cup keep top players=20 away from festival in Hong Kong RUGBY: Barney Spender IT’S that time of the year again when, for one mad=20 weekend, the serious business of grinding 15-man rugby is=20 put on the back burner and in its place hops the rather=20 frisky and entirely unserious […]
Native tongue Bafana Khumalo ‘I HATE these bloody coconuts, I wish somebody would shoot them,” she said as she viciously ground out a half-smoked cigarette with the heel of her shoe. I had never come across this word coconut before and I was certain that my companion would explain its meaning to me. Her name […]
Handel’s Messiah is a ‘fitting celebration of the South=20 African experience’, says Lord Yehudi Menuhin, who will=20 be conducting this work in Johannesburg tonight. Coenraad=20 Visser reports WHEN Lord Yehudi Menuhin is ushered into a crowded press=20 room hours after his arrival in South Africa this week,=20 his slight physical stature takes one by surprise. […]
Gaye Davis A TRIUMPHANT Winnie Mandela is weighing up launching a civil suit for damages against Minister of Safety and Security Sydney Mufamadi, sources close to the deputy minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology indicated this week. She consulted with her lawyer, Templeton Mageza, on Wednesday to “discuss the way forward” after the Rand […]
The people of Namaqualand didn’t just want to see the queen, they wanted to ask her for help, writes Justin Pearce The people from Namaqualand didn’t wave flags to greet Queen Elizabeth on her arrival in Cape Town on Monday. They waved placards. The only obviously dissenting voices in the crowd, they had travelled 500km […]
CINEMA: William Pretorius SOONER or later, I guess, we’d all like to turn into our=20 favourite cartoon character. As nerdish bank clerk=20 Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask, Jim Carrey turns anarchic=20 when he puts on a magic Nordic mask personifying the god=20 of mischief, banished from Valhalla and accidentally=20 released from the sea. The Mask, […]
GOLF: Terry Dennis NOT completely satisfied with establishing himself as the=20 world’s number one golfer, Nick Price is planning to=20 achieve something that has been beyond the reach of the=20 all-time golfing greats from Byron Nelson through to=20 Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. For all of their success, none of them ever quite got=20 round […]
Jacques Magliolo Engen has intensified its thrust for exploration and=20 production of oil in West Africa in an attempt to stem=20 declining profits and to rectify a free-falling share=20 The chemical and oil giant’s 1994 financial year saw a=20 13,6 percent drop in earnings per share and its share=20 price has fallen from a 1993 […]
One of the pioneers of long-distance education, Michael Young, suggests a new use for Robben Island IN the primary school hangs a large model of the most famous prison island in the world. The plaster island, made by the children, is green and peppered with tiny squares for the white houses where they and their […]