A bunch of new-wave ballerinas have borrowed what they can from cabaret and high fashion to update a classic Andrew Gilder The Fantastic Flying Fish Dance Company is no stranger to controversy. Its policy of following an “in-your-face” approach to choreography and production has garnered criticism from colleagues, public and press alike – most commonly […]

Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION I am currently overseas, enjoying a somewhat overdue topping up of my Eurocentricity, by way of some time in Spain, France, Italy and good old Blighty. I have therefore taken advantage of the chance to write two consecutive columns on more or less the same subject: the visual war that is being […]

Thebe Mabanga CDs OFTHEWEEK Two of South Africa’s most loved female artists have recently released their party- season albums and look set to consolidate their status as the wild icon and the graceful idol respectively. Brenda Fassie and Yvonne Chaka Chaka have just released the 25th album between them, with Fassie providing 14. Both in […]

Thebe Mabanga in your ear So, how widely do you read about radio? More importantly, how well do you listen to your favourite radio station. Try this quiz and find out. 1 This is the country’s most listened to station with 6,7-million listeners: a Metro FM q b Ukhozi FM q c Safmq 2 And […]

Tricky says black American music is rubbish and even his own creation, trip-hop, is like ‘McDonald’s’. But he’s still baffled by his reputation for being difficult John Aizlewood ‘Listen: I know without doubt that I am the best artist in the world and have been for the last seven years. Not because my music is […]

P rofessor Shirley Kossick, a regular reviewer of fiction for this paper, will be speaking on Shakespeare’s women at 10am on Saturday November 11 at the Natal’ Labia Museum in Muizenberg. Regulars are invited to an end-of-year tea after the talk.

ED STODDARD, Pretoria | Friday ANGOLA’S Unita rebels last year mined alluvial diamonds worth around $300m and have perfected ways to evade UN sanctions, a respected regional think-tank said this week. ”Without diamonds, Unita will not be able to prosecute its war at the level it does, but of literally all the commodities in the […]

NIGERIA’S third biggest party has split into factions after its first national convention ended with the election of two chairmen, party officials said this week. At the main convention of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in Abuja, a faction led by Justice Minister Bola Ige elected former lawmaker Ahmed Abdulkadir as chairman. Simultaneously, another faction […]