Last week Kay Hassan was formally handed the DaimlerChrysler award for South African Contemporary Art 2000 Matthew Krouse Stuttgart, May 18. Amid fanfare and a notable degree of overkill, South African artist Kay Hassan received the newly launched and already coveted first DaimlerChrysler award for South African Contemporary Art 2000. Much has recently been written […]

John Ezard Obituary Sir John Gielgud, the peerless verse speaker of 450 years of British theatre and one of its two greatest Shakespearean performers, died on May 21, aged 96. His end came “simply of old age” at his home near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, on Sunday, 79 years after his first London stage appearance. His last […]

Barry Streek The people illegally resident in the endangered Dukuduku forest in KwaZulu-Natal have agreed to be resettled on two nearby farms which have been bought by the government for R10,5-million and are to be owned by a community trust, according to Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Ronnie Kasrils. “My department has worked with […]

Barry Streek New steps to reduce legal costs through the employment of public defenders and the establishment of “justice centres” – seven to 10 will be started this financial year – have been disclosed by Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Penuell Maduna. He said “a completely new approach to legal aid” will be implemented […]

2000 Grant Shimmin OLYMPICS This time four years ago, Ruth Nortje had just come to the end of a chapter in her life that must have contained its fair share of sleepless nights. The 29-year- old sprint canoeist had just qualified for the Atlanta Olympics at the last opportunity, in Seville. She had exuded confidence, […]

Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER Amid all the media excitement about Amaglug-glug this week, one man has gone quietly about the business of ensuring that South Africa will be among the 16 finalists at the 2000 Olympic Games football tournament in Australia. Ephraim “Shakes” Mashaba is living proof that you do not need a foreign coach to […]

ahead Barry Streek The government is to press ahead with plans to outsource municipal services and negotiate partnerships with the private sector – despite opposition from public sector trade unions which fear this will result in job losses. The government is convinced that adequate municipal services cannot be supplied to the majority of South Africans […]

Stefaans Brmmer President Thabo Mbeki and a shadowy African National Congress official have been linked to the bizarre appointment of a private investigator to probe government corruption. The appointment backfired this week when details emerged of the investigator’s exorbitant fee, apparent lack of success and crooked past. The saga of the private investigator, Kevin Trytsman, […]

Tjaart Potgieter LIFESTYLE Malay/Indonesian food is an important, if often unexplored, part of our cultural heritage. It reached our shores during the 18th century in the hands of slaves brought from Sumatra, Java, Bali and other South East Asian islands, indiscriminately called Malay because they all came from vaguely the same place “out there”. Most […]

Bryan Rostron A SECOND LOOK ‘Those who stand in the middle of the road,” observed British socialist Aneurin Bevan, “get run over.” South Africa and Zimbabwe share the same lane on the great globalised highway of the 21st century: after driving on the left for many years, both Zanu-PF and the African National Congress opted […]