Tangeni Amupadhi and Wally Mbhele Former Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) operative Johan Niemoller, named in court this week as the mastermind behind a recent spate of arms heists from military bases, has a long history of supplying military equipment and other assistance to the Angolan rebel movement, Unita. Niemoller was in 1995 named as the […]
Alex Dodd Strange how we’re so often blind to our own artistic treasures. Many of us speed past one or two works of wall art every morning on the way to work. Meanwhile in Holland they’re busy lighting up the lives of pedestrians and commuters. Led by public artist and popular Jo’burg DJ Nicky Blumenfeld, […]
Gaby Wood Movie of the week Robert Duvall has been thinking about making The Apostle, a film about a Pentecostal preacher in the American South, for more than 20 years. He has called preaching ”the only authentic American art form”. Some time ago Duvall was due to star in a Sidney Lumet film about two […]
Tangeni Amupadhi Tension is simmering in Thabazimbi in the Northern Province over allegations that a policeman accused of failing to protect a state witness has remained on the force. It has also emerged that police authorities ignored a directive, issued a year ago by the province’s Department of Safety and Security, to act against Detective […]
in Carletonville Andr was in matric in a small Afrikaans mining town when he began taking the hormone tablets that would ultimately transform him into Tula – but only more than 20 years later. Charl Blignaut traces one woman’s story of emancipation ‘Every day of my life I threaten to leave Carletonville,” sighs Tula from […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.00PM: THE South African Communist Party on Wednesday hit out at the government’s growth, employment and redistribution policy (Gear), saying it is misplaced to address socio-economic needs, and has manifestly failed to reach its stated targets. Addressing the SACP’s 10th congress at Crown Mines in Johannesburg, SACP general secretary Charles Nqakula said: “We remain […]
Bruno Peltier During the first press conference he has given in his own country for six years, the Swedish film and theatre director Ingmar Bergman seemed relaxed. He had quit his island retreat in the Baltic to announce that he is working on a screenplay. It is clearly a project close to his heart. Bergman, […]
Neil Manthorp in Cambridge Cricket The arrangement of storms and lulls, peaks and troughs has been clever so far on tour, by and large. Cambridge is a lovely city and the combined universities provide talented but not fierce opposition. Most importantly, Cambridge provides the perfect opportunity to allow the ripples and tremors from the Lords […]
Andrew Worsdale Interview: John Landis Last month I was very privileged to have a phone interview with one of my favourite comedy directors of all time John Landis. Youve got to love the man who made Kentucky Fried Movie, An American Werewolf in London and The Blues Brothers. His follow-up to that car-smashing, head- banging,rhythmnblues […]
Christine Gordon With Angola’s peace process at breaking point, the government in Luanda is mobilising its army to block any further advances by opposition movement Unita. No direct fighting has been reported, but the government is preparing for war. Unofficial estimates put Unita’s military capacity at 30 000 armed troops, a militia of 60 000 […]