While England run free, Romania struggle against all odds to keep rugby alive Eddie Butler The last time I saw Florica Murariu was one lunchtime in Bucharest. He was on television. Not that he was doing anything. One of the finest forwards of his generation, one of the key players in the Romanian side that […]
Kathryn Smith African Window (National Cultural History Museum), 149 Visagie Street, Pretoria. Gordon Froud’s Plastic by Nature, a sculptural installation of objects constructed from plastic cutlery and crockery, is currently on view. Ends May 26. Also on view are paintings and drawings of the Namibian landscape by Beeuven Gerrytz. Ends April 29. Pierneef: Master of […]
Piers Pigou CROSSFIRE Although last week’s decision by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) amnesty committee to grant Robert McBride and five others amnesty for the bombing of the Why Not and Magoos beachfront bars in Durban on June 14 1986, which resulted in three dead and more than 70 injured, was perhaps predictable, it […]
Several years ago we asked the same question:Is Thabo Mbeki fit to rule? At the time, it elicited a furious response from African National Congress representatives and a coterie of others keen to ingratiate themselves with the heir apparent to Nelson Mandela. It was deemed an unfitting question, insulting, arrogant and predictably racist. Today we […]
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 […]
Robert Colman Lifestyle Two homegrown enterprises and a French import have brought fresh life to the Johannesburg suburb of Troyeville. If you aren’t a local it’s well worth crossing the northern suburbs curtain to try them. First stop is the Spaza Art Gallery. Artist Andrew Lindsay has gathered a rich network of young talent from […]
Six years ago Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people when he blew up the Alfred P Murrah building in Oklahoma City. Now it is his turn to die. His namesake, Tracey McVeigh, travels to his hometown to investigate the making of the US’s greatest mass murderer On Monday Timothy James McVeigh celebrated his 33rd birthday. He […]
Marianne Merten ‘We dedicate our lives to peace. I’m not prepared to go back to the bush for any reason,” says Yazir Henri, who heads a self-help initiative of former liberation fighters in Cape Town. The Direct Action Centre for Peace and Memory was established last month to provide support for former combatants and their […]
Pule waga Mabe Some South African politicians backed this week’s controversial Civil Society Initiative (CSI) conference, despite the call by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and other civil society formations for a boycott. Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota was among those invited to speak who didn’t show up. But among those who […]
Short Cuts Bedazzled. Like Ally McBeal, very thin and quite funny. With Elizabeth Hurley. Billy Elliot. Marvellous tale of a workingclass boy who wants to be a ballet dancer. Bounce. Terrible romance that should have been called Boring. Starring Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Broken Hearts Club. A group of gay men negotiate that […]