Ivor Powell Through half-closed eyes, you could have mistaken it for a scene from a different era – 1985, 1989, even 1960, when this dusty square of veld in Sharpeville saw the massacre of 69 Pan Africanist Congress supporters protesting the pass laws. A hefty contingent of cops in armoured vehicles kept a beady eye […]
Howard Barrell:OVER A BARREL By the time you make your squiggles on a ballot paper on June 2, you will have read all the parties’ manifestos, analysed the outcomes they propose and the plausibility of the methods they suggest, sifted their merits out further in intelligent debate, cogitated and reflected still further, and then, with […]
Andrew Muchineripi in Copenhagen Top-class international football is chess on grass, a battle of brains as much as brawn with a credo that stresses the importance of making no mistakes while forcing your opponent into them. South Africa set out this week to end a 13- match winless streak outside Africa that has seen some […]
Melvyn Bragg:A SECOND LOOK I owe Christianity a debt, and so, I believe, does the world we have lived in for the past 2 000 years. Much of what is best in that duo-millennial span has been due to the man who inspired the faith which took his name. But Christianity also owes me and […]
WAYNE Ferreira, the world sixth seed, beat Boris Becker in the tennis legend’s home town of Munich in the German Open on Tuesday. Wayne Ferreira foiled Boris Becker’s latest attempt to finally win a title on clay, defeating Germany’s three-times Wimbledon champion 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the $525000 German Open on Tuesday. Despite being cheered […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube If God is directing television broadcast programming, then He’s trying to tell us something about the past. Why else would the hipsters and swingsters of the Sixties and Seventies keep cropping up? Bell bottoms, stiff cupped bikinis, sideburns, big medallions and some very outdated morality has crept into the fuzz […]
Director Ken Kaplan has made a zombie movie that mixes red blood and black humour. Andrew Worsdale, acting like a zombie, gets the inside story Ten years ago writer/director Ken Kaplan, at age 24, was in the formative stages of pre-production and major development on a movie called Fanus – Pure Blood. It was the […]
Hamish Mackintosh Millions of people are now using the Internet as a source of free music, and the major record companies don’t like it. The problem is that there’s no way of controlling what amounts to a global distribution network, so hardly anyone is paying for the music files they’re downloading. It’s copyright theft on […]
`The vibrancy and rich, kaleidoscopic colours in his work reflected a 20th century of quicker movement, shortening distances, instant news.’ John Fordham assesses the legacy of Duke Ellington in his centenary month I heard Duke Ellington and his Orchestra just once, at Westminster Abbey in October 1973. Ellington was 74, but though he looked a […]
`depression’ Marianne Merten The current spotlight on police brutality has apparently made little difference to the fate of two members of the Cape Peninsula dog unit. Accused of shooting dead two car-theft suspects and endangering the lives of their colleagues during the incident, they have avoided the suspension recommended by the police watchdog, the Independent […]