OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.00am. ORLANDO Pirates signalled their aspirations to the Premiership soccer title when they beat Supersport United 1-0 at the Caledonian Stadium on Saturday. The match started off at a pedestrian pace but quickly gathered momentum which led to Dumi Ngobe scoring a brilliant goal in the 23rd minute. Defender Gerald […]

Alex Sudheim On exhibition in Durban Upon arrival at the NSA Gallery, each spectator/participant is given a sheet of paper bearing words: random fragments of random texts. Mine says: “The summer air”. The person next to me gets something in Zulu. Someone else’s says: “Why?” Shortly thereafter, German artist Angelika Flaig collects all the papers […]

Sechaba ka Nkosi A controversial deal brokered between the SABC and MultiChoice to alter satellite television in South Africa has been put on ice. The move follows a detailed protest memo to the broadcasting ministry from the SABC’s main signal distributor, Sentech, and a series of meetings among stakeholders. Questions have also been raised about […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 1.20pm. THE Moerane commission into alleged irregularities in the department of former Gauteng safety and security MEC Jessie Duarte said on Thursday that there is a strong suspicion that Duarte was implicated in a cover-up of the accident she was involved in while driving her official vehicle. “However, a suspicion, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 8.00pm. SOUTH African shares ended today’s session near their lows as a late burst of selling forced the entire market down. Dealers said JSE shares were pummeled by bad news, including weaker international markets, a declining currency exchange rate and concerns about emerging economies’ debt. The All share index closed […]

Who is . . . George Soros? Larry Elliott It’s 7.45pm on the evening of September 16 1992. Night is falling and the chancellor of the exchequer, an ashen-faced Norman Lamont, nervously runs his hands through his hair as the flashbulbs pop. After a day of disaster in which the Bank of England’s foreign currency […]

Phillip Kakaza CD of the week The title of Tony Cox’s latest CD, Looking for Zim (Sheer Sound) could be confusing to many jazz enthusiasts, more especially when we know that he’s fond of collaborating with various musos in studio projects. So, make no mistake, Looking for Zim is not about Cox’s search for jazz […]

David Hirst The Sudanese opposition, a broad coalition of African southerners and Arab Muslim northerners known as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), held a conference in Cairo this month to plan the next stage of its struggle against the Khartoum government. It is the first time Egypt has hosted such a gathering, and it is […]

queen Michael Knipe Peggy Phango came to Britain from South Africa in 1961 as the female lead in the ground-breaking jazz musical King Kong. She played a glamorous shebeen queen – a role originated by her cousin, Miriam Makeba – in an exuberant show featuring an all-black cast and the jazz-influenced rhythms and harmonies of […]