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/ 6 February 1998
David Shapshak Live in Johannesburg There’s something electric about the way Kaolin Thomson performs. She does very little dancing around — she’s surrounded by a keyboard, flute, saxophone and various percussion instruments, all of which she plays — but still manages to convey an explosiveness. She’s like a panther on stage. After all the hype […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Julian Drew : Skiing Alex Heath, South Africa’s representative in Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics starting on Saturday, is not your ordinary sort of guy. In November 1996 he suffered a fractured skull and brain haemorrhage that put him in a coma for 18 hours after a fall from the climbing wall in the […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Stephen Ellis In large parts of West Africa, traditional secret societies, whose officers appear in public as masked dancers known as bush devils, are acquiring real political power once more after decades of decline. Some rural areas of Liberia and Guinea are dominated by leaders of the male secret society called Poro. In war-torn Sierra […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Robert Kirby : Loose Cannon Now that the media blood pressure is dropping and the Bill Clinton/FW de Klerk/PW Botha emotional and sexual needs have been assessed in all their horrible detail, I think it’s time for a more informed look at these scandalous goings-on in high places. The first major peril of trying to […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Clandestine flights carrying arms and supplies to Unita in Angola will be curtailed after disclosures, reports John Grobler The arrest of nine South African men when their DC-4 was forced down by an Angolan Air Force Mig-21 at Menongue, the provincial capital of Cuando Cubango, two weeks ago, appears to have spelled the end — […]
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/ 6 February 1998
They may disagree on the methods, but the world’s financial gurus are unanimous that the forces of globalisation must be reined in, writes Larry Elliot Like a new car that unexpectedly develops life-threatening faults, the 1997 model of globalisation has been recalled by the makers. The havoc wreaked in the Far East by the crisis […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Alex Clark The End of Alice by AM Homes (Anchor, R69,95) This novel, an everyday tale of paedophilia and child murder in middle-class America, is published in paperback plastered with the panegyrics of American critics, united mainly by their admiration for AM Homes’s horrifyingly “real” treatment of a taboo subject. At the same time, the […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Kate Turkington INTO AFRICA: A Journey Through The Ancient Empires by Marq de Villiers and Shiela Hirtle (Jonathan Ball, R89,99) Analysing Africa is a bit like facing the many-headed Hydra. Just as you’ve got one section neatly disposed of, another rears up and puts you back where you started. Similarly, any book that attempts “to […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Despite attempts by leaders to clean up corruption in Africa, graft remains the order of the day in many countries, reports Chris McGreal There was a time when Kinshasa Airport induced mild panic in all who contemplated its grubby portals. A cocktail of chaos, intimidation and outright threats usually helped denude visiting business people of […]
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/ 6 February 1998
GROUP A (Ouagadougou) Feb 7: Burkina Faso v Cameroon; Feb 8: Algeria v Guinea; Feb 11: Cameroon v Guinea, Burkina Faso v Algeria; Feb 15: Burkina Faso v Guinea, Algeria v Cameroon GROUP B (Ouagadougou) Feb 9: Democratic Republic of Congo v Togo, Ghana v Tunisia; Feb 12: DR Congo v Tunisia, Ghana v Togo; […]