Movies and television make kids illiterate, say the experts. Don’t you believe it. Colin MacCabe on some amazing findings Television and reading are opposed, right? What parent has not thought that a few episodes less of Sesame Street or Hercules would turn their children into veritable bibliophiles, at home with Dickens as well as Tolkien, […]
Neil Manthorp in Chelmsford : Cricket The memory of the 1994 tour still sits in the palate of South African cricket like old garlic. The glory of Lord’s, the passion of the defensive draw at Headingley, and then the crumbling edifice at the end. Devon Malcolm’s crushing 9-57 at the Oval was only the beginning. […]
Keith Henderson CD of the week What a job -putting together an album for The X-Files movie. According to director Chris Carter, none of the artists on the album had been given the opportunity to see the film before going into the studio to record. But then again, who needs to see the movie when […]
Brenda Atkinson : On show in Johannesburg Jeremy Wafer and Sue Williamson, both established and widely respected artists in South Africa and abroad, make an odd couple within the same exhibition space. Currently exhibiting at Johannesburg’s Goodman Gallery, the two tackle their subjects and materials with vastly different conceptual approaches and to disjunctive formal effect. […]
Andy Capostagno : Rugby There is a lot to be said for relaxation. In the next millennium we are told that working hours will shrink to about 30 a week so we’ll all have to get used to more time at home, more time on the golf course, more time. But rugby events on opposite […]
Mungo Soggot The state oil company has slashed the number of charges and dropped all fraud allegations against suspended chief oil trader Kobus van Zyl, who is due to be disciplined in the next few weeks. Van Zyl was publicly ousted in March 1997 by the Minister of Minerals and Energy, Penuell Maduna, triggering the […]
Venus, Goddess, Chocolate and Rasta Queen are the sizzling, street-smart, breed of girl band, set to shoot some pride into the sistahood, writes Adam Levin Half the Ghetto Luv crew still live with their folks. The other half live in a once- grand Art Deco building in Yeoville, in a flat without a door. Don’t […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Friday 10.00PM. THE Zimbabwean government on Friday gazetted sweeping new regulations to control rallies and marches, intended to increase the state’s control over political expression. In future, organisers will have to seek police permission in writing a week prior to events, specifying their purpose, and the business and details of proposed […]
John Grobler The South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo) leadership is expected to propose amending the Namibian Constitution this month to give President Sam Nujoma a third term of office. The Constitution restricts the president to two terms, but at the Swapo extraordinary congress, set to take place at the end of August, party stalwarts […]
Andrew Worsdale Djibril Diop Mambety, Senegal’s major visionary film-maker, died last week after a long fight against throat cancer. Mambety was, without doubt, Africa’s most fanciful film-maker – the only man who treated African stories with the lateral cinematic vision they crave. Starting his movie-making in 1968 with Contras-City, dubbed the first African comedy, the […]