Matthew Krouse Agfa Theatre on the Square, Sandton Square. Neil McCarthy returns to stage writing with The Great Outdoors, a tense but tender psychodrama starring Isidingo’s Jamie Bartlett. Tickets at Computicket (www.computicket.com) or Tel: 883 8606. Barney Simon Theatre, Market Theatre complex, Newtown Cultural Precinct. Sweat on Somerset is a 70minute docuperformance about real life […]

Alex Sudheim Bat Hall, Bat Centre, Durban harbour. St Raphael’s Special School, a primary school for the physically disabled, presents nine stage performances of the smash hit musical Sarafina! The public is invited to attend the openingnight performance at 8pm on Friday May 4, whereafter dedicated schools’ performances will take place from May 7 to […]

Michelle Matthews Baxter Theatre Centre. From Wednesday May 2, see Evita Bezuidenhout’s new show, Symbols of Sex and Stage, in which she takes on unsafe sex and careless politics. Book at Computicket (www.computicket.com). Cape Comedy Collective. These laughmongers have added a new gig to their circuit. On Mondays three comedians will perform at 1st Base […]

Delegates rejected the idea of a Khoisan people at a conference in Windhoek John Grobler San teachers and linguists from Namibia, Botswana and South Africa have agreed to produce a standard orthography for their language groups. At a meeting in Windhoek last week they devised a plan for the new system that will divide San […]

Bruce Whitfield looks at some of the first quarter’s biggest disappointments The first quarter of this year saw a range of financial, industrial and technology shares take a pounding on the JSE Securities Exchange. There was not a single resources stock among the bottom feeders this time. The worst-performing share in the first quarter was […]

Thebe Mabanga LIVINGSTONE’S TRIBE: A JOURNEY FROM ZANZIBAR TO THE CAPE by Stephen Taylor (Flamingo) One of the many striking observations that Stephen Taylor makes in this book is about Africabased correspondents for the predominantly Western media. “As a tribe,” he says, “journalists in Africa dwell amidst the sweetest landscapes, live off the finest pasture […]

A 29-year-old woman who allegedly shot her abusive husband, once a member of the SA Defence Force’s notorious Koevoet counter insurgency unit, will have to wait until June to find out whether a Namibian court believes she is guilty of murder, the Namibian Press Agency reported on Tuesday. Estelle Elmare Gray, of Henties Bay, is […]

Michelle Matthews 8Tease Fever, Eikestad mall, Stellenbosch. On April 30 (yes, there’s another public holiday on Tuesday) Nick E Louder, Richard Carter, Carsens and Dexter club each other with their DJ bags over who plays the best commercial dance music Cape Town or Stellenbosch? Ringside seats cost R20. Adrenalin, 38 Neptune Street, Paarden Island. There […]

Eastern Cape Branches in the provinces are unsure whether Makhenkesi Stofile will be available for the position of African National Congress chair at the next provincial congress. Stofile had indicated in the local media last year that he would not be available. Should he stand, the feeling is that Stofile, who replaced Raymond Mhlaba as […]

Peter Robinson Lifting the Covers: The Inside Story of South African Cricket by Luke Alfred (Spearhead) Luke Alfred quit his jobs as The Star and The Sunday Independent’s senior cricket writer earlier this year a decision that may or may not have been connected with the imminent publication of this book. Whatever the case, I […]