music Alex Sudheim 330, 330 Point Road. Durban’s legendary nightclub keeps the serious dance faction in business with the heaviest rig and the wildest parties in town. On Friday December 21 cult international electronic outfit Kosheen perform, featuring special guests Simon Mills and Nail Tolliday from Bent playing their world-famous DJ sets. Kosheen come from […]

music Miles Keylock 0932, 79 Main Road, Green Point. On Sunday December 23 join Pam Demenezes and her quartet Kevin Gibson (drums), Andrew Lilley (piano) and Darryll Andrews (bass). On December 30 Afro-jazzy world-music combo Tsunami features some of South Africa’s future jazz icons, including Max Mikula on guitar, Brendan Ou Tim on bass, Peter […]

How many of the year’s events can you remember? 1 Name the new”peace park” straddling the Kruger National Park, Mozambique’s Coutada 16 and Zimbabwe’s Gonarezhou? 2 In what cities would you find the eThekwini, Msunduzi and Tshwane councils? 3Which club from South Africa won the 27th edition of the African Cup winners’ cup, also known […]

Sex, suicide, scandal and defecation on the Big Brother set. It’s been business as unusual in the cultural industries this year February 14: Piano genius Moses”Taiwa” Molelekwa is found hanging from a beam near his wife and business partner Florence Mthoba, also dead but without visible injuries. Friends and associates reflect how”he could not conquer […]

Frank Keating on the single most important object in myriad sports, so frequently overlooked Etched as it is so vividly in the memory, it could easily be, oh, just a handful of Christmas mornings ago. In fact I was four, and next week fully 60 Christmases have gone since then. If not a reindeer hoof […]

Belinda Beresford The government is seeking to head off a slew of future legal attacks that could force it to honour the socio-economic obligations enshrined in the Constitution. The Department of Health will ask the Constitutional Court to overturn last week’s Pretoria High Court judgement that it must provide anti-retroviral drugs in the public sector […]

An inept display in Adelaide has left South Africa with an enormous task Peter Robinson Well, if nothing else Shaun Pollock’s South Africans know exactly what they need to do in the next two Test matches bat better, bowl better and catch better. This accomplished, the series should be a doddle. It’s difficult to be […]

Pat Hopkins A nude reclines on a palm-fringed beach. Another plays the sax for leering men. A lap dance. A blow job. A village orgy. In each of these murals is a khuwana a beer-pot. The N1 the Great North Road from Cape to Cairo winds through the affluent eastern suburbs of Pretoria before straightening […]

Who is this Father Christmas guy, and how is it that he exerts such hypnotic power? asks John Matshikiza I don’t know where the whole thing started. But it would be discourteous, in this season of good cheer, to point fingers at any other member of the family. Suffice it to say that, somewhere between […]

Stefaans Brmmer and Mungo Soggot Cell C was tight-lipped this week about its settlement with three businessmen who in a bizarre lawsuit accused the cellular operator’s Saudi owners of not paying them a $2-million”success fee” for helping to secure its licence. The settlement with Cell C’s owner, Saudi Oger, was struck with Alfred Oosthuizen, formerly […]