OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 11.00PM SUDANESE head of state Omar el-Beshir on Friday lashed out at US President Bill Clinton for ordering a military strike on Khartoum, and said his country will take the matter to the United Nations. The US overnight launched Tomahawk Cruise missiles at “terrorist” targets in Afghanistan and Sudan. The […]
Andrew Muchineripi English Premiership The English Premiership grows more cosmopolitan by the day with league and cup holders Arsenal among the clubs who bolstered their “foreign legion” during the close season. Defender Nelson Vivas was in the Argentine team that ended the World Cup dreams of England and arrived at Highbury from Swiss club Lugano […]
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 […]
Charl Blignaut On stage in Johannesburg If what it takes for a talented young black co-writer and director to get his latest play mounted on the main stage at the Market Theatre is a Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Drama, an acclaimed United States tour and an artistic directorship at the North West arts […]
Zwelithini ka Mvelase Uncompromising winter’s sun blasts its ultraviolet rays into my eyes as we swing into the Hector Petersen Square, Orlando West, for a presentation to Soweto of an art work titled Hector Petersen Mosaic, by the late activist/artist Theo Gerber’s wife, Susie. It’s Sunday in Soweto, Donny Hathaway’s soul classic Children of the […]
Ron Sakolsky is an academic, journalist and activist whose main interest is the cultural politics of music. He’s not a serious musician although he “dabbles” in several instruments. Sakolsky is visiting South Africa until the end of the year. While he is here he plans to interview Mzwakhe Mbuli in jail to talk about his […]
Karlin Lillington For most earthlings, just finding a hotel with Internet access is a challenge. Nasa, however, thinks big. The space agency intends to have Mars “Internet-enabled” in the next three to four years. Last week at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Dr Vinton Cerf, a senior vice-president at telecom company MCI, joined […]
With the controversy surrounding Mark Hipper’s portraits of naked children still simmering, Fiona MacCarthy reports on an exhibition of Lewis Carroll’s photographs of little girls Xie Kitchin, little girl photographed as a pert Chinaman, perched in skimpy silk kimono on a pyramid of tea boxes. Alice Liddell dressed up as a small beggarmaid, rags falling […]
Digby Ricci THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION by Gore Vidal (Knopf) One hates to bow to conventional wisdom, but Gore Vidal really is a far better essayist than he is a novelist. In his essays, the erudition is elegantly startling, but never obtrusive, and the much-vaunted “mordant wit” is a rapier, not a bludgeon. Thus, Susan Sontag’s […]
Robert Kirby: Loose cannon I have it on the best authority that Monica Lewinsky is actually what is known in the espionage business as a “high-grade deep mole”. In truth Monica works for Saddam Hussein who personally coached her in the finer points of presidential seduction. The entire oval office sexual farrago is a brilliantly […]