Many of Timbavati’s famous white lions may have ended up as prize trophies on neighbouring game farms Fiona Macleod Lions are being stolen from the Timbavati Nature Reserve by suspected canned-lion hunting operators. An employee on a small neighbouring game farm was convicted and sentenced late last month after he was caught red-handed trying to […]
Isabel Hilton COMMENT Zimbabwe celebrated the 20th anniversary of her independence yesterday with the murder of a second white farmer. This was another government-inspired outrage on the way to what threatens to be a deliberate descent into a more general, armed conflict over Zimbabwe’s colonial legacy. Two decades ago, Robert Mugabe subscribed to a different […]
Mikkel Beck was a fan of the chef, so he invested in the restaurant Jim White Traditionally, the only contact footballers had with the catering trade was buying a pub the moment they stopped playing. Which, to be fair, was merely falling in line with expert opinion that it is always enriching during retirement to […]
Marianne Merten A piece of South African history was sold last weekend when 20 000 items from the refurbished Blue Train went on auction in Cape Town. The memorabilia that went under the hammer in Cape Town last Saturday included everything from an industrial- sized, peppermint-green toaster to ice cream scoops, pots, butler’s ties, toiletry […]
Barry Streek Publisher David Philip has changed hands to emerge as the major black-controlled book publishing house in South Africa. A majority share of David Philip Publishers (DPP) has been sold to New African Publications (NAP), a subsidiary of New Africa Investments Limited’s newly formed New Africa Media (NAM). Meanwhile three prominent black academics, Professors […]
Mary Dover People all around the world can watch the African sunset or a lion kill, or track leopard spoor when the “CNN of the bush”, Africam.com, launches its first live nature and game viewing footage on the Internet in July. Wildlife viewing might sound “ho hum” to many South Africans but consider the appeal […]
John Matshikiza WITH THE LID OFF Politics is funny. Innuendo is even funnier. Innuendo brought into the service of politics is funny as hell. A lot of people who didn’t know they were in the middle of a game of political innuendo were brought to their knees and died, not realising that it was all […]
David Jays SMILE PLEASE by Jonathan Keates (Chatto & Windus) Adam, the central character in Smile Please, has a favourite gay sleazepit where you can take a break from the business of grapple and groan to “discuss early Antonioni or the Shostakovich cello sonata”. As in Alan Hollinghurst and Edmund White, Jonathan Keates’s novel ripples […]
Michelle Matthews ‘Though celebrating the strides that women have made in the dance scene, this is no patronising event,” assure Sleaze Syndicate regarding its Chicks with Decks party. The pejorative is probably less disturbing than the pun, which insinuates that dicks and decks are the natural order. Unfortunately, the perception is valid, with the Cape […]
Luvuyo Kakaza CDs OFTHEWEEK In 1998, BMG Africa seemed to have grovelled hard in the dustbins of the ghetto in search of new talent. Every Wednesday at Johannesburg’s dancehall, 206 in Orange Grove, BMG hosted a musical showcase with a funky name: Jozi Vibes:Vibes 2 Smoke Ya. The fruitful results have been the release of […]