Robert Plummer WRITING SOUTH AFRICA: LITERATURE, APARTHEID, AND DEMOCRACY, 1970-1995 edited by Derek Attridge and Rosemary Jolly (Cambridge University Press, R100) NOVEL HISTORIES: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE IN SOUTH AFRICAN FICTION: by Michael Green (Witwatersrand University Press, R120) Just over a decade ago, in a South Africa drawn in stark chiaroscuro rather than rainbow nuance, […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: THE Sri Lankan touring cricket squad, who arrived in the country on Wednesday, are set to thrill the crowds with their brand of entertaining and exciting cricket. True to form, the Lankans promised to play “positive cricket” during the upcoming triangular series against South Africa and Pakistan. Team manager Dulip Mendis said the […]
Andrew Worsdale: Movie of the week If Barry Levinson had got hold of the script for Good Will Hunting he would have turned it into another Rain Man – mawkish, sentimental and filled with the kind of Hollywood gloss that makes a potentially touching story just seem unreal. So it’s a credit to producer Lawrence […]
Andy Duffy, is truly muddle-headed. In his article “UWC debt collector’s deal”(February 13 to 19) he gets his story wrong in so many areas that I must wonder about his competence. Now for the facts: Professor Ikey van de Rheede was appointed as vice-rector (student affairs) by the broad-based process which the university adopted in […]
FRIDAY, 6.30PM: AT stumps, South Africa were on 262/7 after 90 overs. FRIDAY, 5.30PM: SOUTH Africa were stuck with their backs against the wall on 157/5 at tea on the first day of the third Test against Pakistan at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth on Friday. Pakistani paceman Waqar Younis was the reason for […]
Andrew Worsdale It’s a premium week for movies on television, especially on Friday with Thelma and Louise on SABC3 on Friday March 6 at 9pm. This exhilarating thriller is Ridley Scott’s best movie since Blade Runner. It stars Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, who set out on a holiday trip. A drunken dance- floor flirtation […]
A bright new agency says the advertising industry is still on the old path, writes Ferial Haffajee ‘Hi, I’m calling from MDS.DD&M.” Say what? In an industry where acronyms abound, this one can get you more tongue-tied than most. The somewhat unwieldy name masks a new advertising agency with a very clear agenda. It wants […]
Craig Bishop A two-year-old agreement with Danish funders to fund community radio projects jointly has finally been honoured by the South African government. Dr Pallo Jordan, the former minister responsible for broadcasting, agreed in 1995 to match a two-year Danish contribution of over R3-million to develop community radio through an independent fund. The agreement stressed […]
A craze for shark-cage diving has its dangers … for sharks, writes Ellen Bartlett The bartender from Miami is standing tall on the port side of the boat, face to the wind, eyes in a happy squint in the glare of the morning sun. “There’s bungee jumping, there’s jumping out of an airplane and there’s […]
FRIDAY, 6.15PM: TRADING in the shares of Rand Merchant Bank, Southern Life Association, First National Bank Holdings and Momentum Life Holdings was suspended by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Friday at the request of the comapnies’ boards. The suspension came as discussions of a merger between Anglo American and RMB’s financial interests progressed. The various […]