Chris Gordon in Luanda and Howard Barrell in Cape Town Angola’s return to arms, which appeared inevitable this week, could spill into neighbouring territories and destabilise the entire Southern African region. In the line of fire are Zambia, which the Unita rebel movement continues to use as a rear supply base and which is bracing […]
Jeremy Dowson : Venues in Cape Town On paper, the Drum Caf certainly has a whole lot going for it. Established six months ago as a bar-cum-caf that provides a forum for percussion lessons and performances, the venue would seem to be riding the storm of the pre-millennial cultural zeitgeist – the one which dictates […]
Suzy Bell : On show in Durban A slack-jawed, stocking-headed, beaut of a character in blue checked night-gown, Marilyn Monroe pom-pom slippers, fag in mouth, and eye firmly on the box of Premier Grand-Cru, steals the show in this thrice Vita Award-nominated play, A Coloured Place. The character is Evette. Lonely but funny and fiercely […]
Angella Johnson View From a Broad I don’t get it. Shirley MacLaine was an Egyptian princess in one of her past lives. Other people became Napoleon, or some other historical great. But me: I got to be some illiterate, forest-dwelling nobody living in the England of 1066. I was a peasant called Phil (mmm, doesn’t […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.00AM. STATE herald Fred Brownell said on Thursday that former South African Rugby Football Union boss Louis Luyt cannot claim the Springbok emblem to be his own. Luyt earlier charged that the emblem belongs to him, saying: “It was designed by me, it belongs to me.” Brownell said that a […]
Brenda Atkinson If you’ve been waiting to exhale ever since the grade-school camerawork of Avenues swung its way across SABC 3; if you’re still wondering why paying your TV licence seems the wrong thing to do; if you’re considering ditching your M-Net subscription, don’t panic yet. e-tv, the hot and politically sound channel that snatched […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 8.00PM. AFTER losing to South Africa by 177 runs in their one-day match on Wednesday, Essex have sought to beef up their team ahead of the three-day “re-match” starting at Chelmsford on Friday. Seamer Mark Ilott and middle-order batting star Ronnie Irani have been called up to strengthen a line-up […]
Douglas Rushkoff : online Gathered together beneath the chandeliers of the Beverly Hilton’s main ballroom earlier this year, Hollywood’s best and brightest (dressed, anyway) had paid about $1 500 each to rub elbows with the interactive media-makers who would soon, they feared, replace them. Meanwhile, a demonstration floor crowded with technology from Compaq and other […]
The continuing battle over alleged electoral fraud could plunge the region into turmoil, writes William Boot Opposition parties in Lesotho this week expressed “great shock” at a “serious rumour alleging a possible resolution by some people in high places or quarters to banish from Lesotho His Majesty the King and declare a state of emergency”. […]
Mercedes Sayagues Copycat land invasions are spreading in Zimbabwe, six weeks after villagers first moved on to four commercial farms in Marondera, near Harare. Across the country hundreds of families have peacefully and briefly occupied land on dozens of farms. The harvest is over; there is a lull in farm work. A donor land conference […]