Leeds and the South African Football Association are fighting over defender Lucas Radebe. Radebe missed Leeds’ UEFA Cup match Thursday and will be out of league play this weekend against Aston Villa.
CD Reviews: Koos Kombuis: Equilibrium; Various: Kombuis Musiek; Matthew van der Want and Chris Letcher: Bignity.
Tracy Chapman became a worldwide star after appearing at Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday concert in 1988. What became of the girl who was talking about revolution? Gary Younge finds out.
The "Boeke" Prize is an Exclusive Books promotion that takes off from Britain’s Booker Prize, writes <b>Shirley Kossick</b>
<b>Not the movies of the week:</b>
Two very different films, <i>Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood</i> and <i>Frailty</i>, ignore the basics – and make us wish for a remote control, writes Neil Sonnekus.
We have a pop idol in the form of squeaky-clean Heinz Winckler, we almost have a new Big Brother celebrity millionaire and soon South Africa will have brand-new kwaito stars and a DJto support.
The dreaded second-album jitters — or the "sophomore jinx", as it is affectionately referred to in music circles — have assaulted their latest victim.
This year’s Aardklop festival, the fifth — stretching over five days last week — attracted to villagey, leafy Potchefstroom no less than 120 000 people to attend some 90 shows. My report of an attendance filling only two of those days, with a mere seven of those shows, must be understood to be an under-embrace of that most pleasant of spring rituals. Still, seven new, worthwhile plays are more than one gets to sample in Johannesburg these days in a month.
Nobody ever suggested that the search for a new South African theatrical identity would be complete within a decade of democracy. But no one could have imagined that the process of moving beyond conventional protest theatre would take us through nauseatingly static, linear and pedestrian experiments that pass for work addressing present day issues. The current programme at the Market Theatre offers new directions with a play featuring seasoned talent, and four new plays at the Fifth Barney Simon Young Writers Festival.
This is a tribute to young lions — all those people under 35 who offer hope and inspiration for the future of this country. In presenting our top 100 rising stars in 2000, we said the future is young and black.