Date : Cape Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) in African Songbirds, featuring Gloria Bosman, Jelena Revishin and Nontutthuzelo Puoane, conducted by Mike Campbell and including a jazz quintet. November 18: Pop Goes the Orchestra, conducted by George Michie, featuring Zayn Adams. December 5 to 8: Moya Wa Sechaba Spirit of the Nation, with Sibongile Khumalo and her […]

ATHLETICS Duncan Mackay Ludmila Engquist’s story sounds like the stuff of a Hollywood blockbuster. How she grew up as a cog in the Soviet sports machinery; failed a drugs test only to be cleared by a judge after her tyrannical husband admitted he had spiked her drink in revenge for her asking for a divorce; […]

BODY LANGUAGE Thabo Mohlala My 11-year-old nephew and I were recently walking down the streets of Dobsonville, Soweto on a swelteringly hot day. I had promised him ice cream and we were on our way to a supermarket. On our way we met a posse of streetwise youngsters sporting the latest designer labels. My nephew […]

Barry Streek The postponement of floor-crossing legislation may be a blessing in disguise for the New National Party both the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance say the NNP has most to lose by the proposed law. The law, which provides for the lifting of anti-defection clauses for MPs and provincial legislature members when […]

Ramadan is not only about abstinence Comment Shamil Jeppie The pious view of Ramadan is that it is a month in the Islamic calendar of extraordinary religiosity on the part of the vast majority of the world’s Muslims. It is a period of abstinence, deep devotion and increased recitation of the Qur’an. It is a […]

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by five youths at Bulwer in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands last week, south coast police said on Tuesday. Police representative Inspector Moses Gambushe said the girl was walking near the soccer field where a number of youths played soccer. Five of them, aged between 15 and 20, approached the girl, […]

THE bodies of two children were found in a large ditch filled with rain water in Vuwani, Thohoyandou on Tuesday evening, Northern Province police said. Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said the children had gone out to play earlier in the day. ”The siblings, a 12-year-old girl and her five-year-old brother were discovered hours later by passers-by. […]

THE trial of two men charged with burning school children’s hands at the Pretoria International Show in August will be heard in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on January 29 and 30 next year, a court official said on Tuesday. The trial date was set when the two men, Pieter Lamprecht (19) and Antonie du Plessis […]

A POLICE station commissioner shot his wife and three children to death before turning the gun on himself at their home in Jansenville in Uitenhage on Tuesday morning. Eastern Cape police spokeswoman Michelle Kleinhans said Captain Andries Japhta (34) shot dead his wife Helen (31) and their three children Anatacia (11) Ezrah (6) and Delano […]

THE body of rugby referee Carl Spannenberg, who went missing and was presumed to have drowned at Cape Town’s Zeekoevlei dam, was recovered from the dam on Wednesday, police reported. Captain Andre Traut said Spannenberg’s (33) body had surfaced and was noticed by the divers as they resumed their search at 8am. Spannenberg went missing […]