Neil Manthorp Cricket The stomach churns, the vision blurs periodically, the fear of a failure so instant, and finite, paralyses the instincts and movements that have been second nature for years. Very few men, at any senior level, have opened the batting without experiencing these emotions. Many have suffered worse. It is quite possible to […]
President Nelson Mandela’s comments at the opening of the South African Communist Party conference that the growth, economic and redistribution (Gear) stratety is the fundamental policy of the African National Congress and that he will brook no opposition to it is just the latest sign of the ANC’s irritation at public criticism from its own […]
Anastasia does for history what Bambi did for nature – simplifies it beyond reality, writes Nicci Gerrard I have a dream: that Karl Marx – whose Communist Manifesto was published almost exactly 150 years ago – should come with me to see Rupert Murdoch’s 20th Century Fox’s latest offering, Anastasia, which launches Fox Animation Studios, […]
Sherilee Bridge Accusations of espionage in the cellular industry have done little to fuel confidence in the two network operators, MTN and Vodacom. They have been slammed for “petty infighting” while the market cries for reduced service costs. In a bid for market leadership just months before the possible introduction of a third network operator, […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM: THE South African Broadcasting Corporation on Friday confirmed that it fired newly appointed broadcasting strategy CE Govin Reddy on Thursday following an angry meeting with the SABC board on Wednesday. Although there was an indication on Friday morning that Reddy is planning to take legal action against the SABC, spokesman Marj Murray on […]
South African Airways (SAA) flights on the London route appear to be full of fun. First there was the couple copulating in business class. Now there is the strange story of the berserk poet. A court in the United Kingdom has been hearing evidence of how the poet, one John Bagwell, aged 42, erupted into […]
Andrew Worsdale Grey Hofmeyr is a great guy, and honestly, I’m not sucking up (I had a cameo part in Suburban Bliss). Straight and to the point with an affable and very South African manner about him, he sits behind a large desk in Henley Studios at Auckland Park, with a monitor beside him. He […]
South African photographer David Goldblatt’s exhibition opens at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this month. Alex Dodd speaks to him about the structure of things now and then The thing that sticks in my mind about that first conversation with photographer David Goldblatt is his insistence on the absence of a colon. […]
Suzy Bell On show in Durban Never has Jung been so playful, and yet so arresting. Last Tango in Heaven, produced by Durban’s pioneering Backlash Theatre Company, was written by that most underrated Pretoria playwright, Mario Scheiss. He wrote the play in four days and then, dramatically, on June 2, at the age of 64, […]
Robert Kirby: Loose Cannon When your weekend newspaper starts to depress your spirits, don’t just reach out automatically for the brandy bottle or the Prozac, there are easier ways to shed the gloom. An excellent selection of low comedy is to be enjoyed merely by turning to the Appointments section in the paper. Reading through […]