Brenda Atkinson talks to South Africa’s most effortlessly famous artist about his latest opus.
For the determined investor, there is more than one way to push the limit, reports Shaun Harris The capping of yet another global unit trust fund this week – this time Old Mutual’s recently launched Global Technology Fund – underscores the asset swap limitations being faced by unit trust management companies. Under current Reserve Bank […]
Sex shops are floating and lap-dancing is thriving. Jamie Doward on a new twist to the world’s oldest trade What do the Big Windsor pub in Cardiff, a former female Luftwaffe pilot and Dublin city centre have in common? Sex. Or rather its simulacrum. Last week, Germany’s biggest sex shop chain, Beate Uhse, floated on […]
The famous rave drug on its own is not responsible for the deaths of productive young people, argues Ted Leggett The death of a young woman after her first experiment with “ecstasy” last weekend has brought the so-called “club drugs” to national attention. The incredible variety of substances associated with the rave scene have led […]
Local hero Charl Mattheus is facing a Russian assault at this year’s Comrades Marathon, writes Michael Finch It was April 7 1996, the day after Russian Dmitry Grishine had almost shocked national marathon champion Zithulele Sinqe at the Two Oceans Marathon. Sinqe scraped home for victory by five seconds, but it wasn’t Grishine’s second place […]
Wonder Hlongwa Against police denials that there was a political motive in the killing of two women in KwaZulu-Natal’s volatile Richmond area, the families of the deceased insist they were indeed political. The two women, Zantu Ndabezitha (40) and Babongile Dlamini (43), were gunned down in separate incidents eight hours before Wednesday’s elections. The families […]
Stephen Bierley in Paris Tennis Andre Agassi, the pigeon-toed, scrub-headed Las Vegas American they call “Mr Electricity”, among more derogatory names, staged the comeback of his life to win the French Open with a remarkable 1-6, 2-6, 6- 4, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Andrei Medvedev. By doing so he became only the fifth man in […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby `The time has come for work.” The muted but somehow resonant assurance with which Mr Thabo Mbeki closed off his “victory speech” at Gallagher Estate; a speech which, uncommonly for any latter-born politician, expressed more by virtue of its restraint than its rhetoric. To even the most gloomy of sceptics, Mbeki’s […]
WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: FORMER South African cricket great Jackie McGlew died at his Craighall Park home on Tuesday after a long battle against leukemia. McGlew (69) captained South Africa in 14 test matches between 1947 and 1967. His score of 255 not-out against New Zealand is the second highest international score ever recorded. McGlew’s first-class career […]
Catherine Knox Taking the gap left for literary arts, the National Arts Council-sponsored Wordfest springs fully armed (as it were) on to the Standard Bank National Arts Festival’s fringe programme with a range of events from performance poets to debates on the politics of prose (July 1 to 8). Envisaged as a place where readers, […]