SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Thursday 8.00pm JAY NAIDOO has quit as Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting and will be leaving parliamentary politics at the end of his current term of office, the African National Congress announced on Thursday. The ANC said in a statement that Naidoo is leaving active political life due to […]
The Martell Blues Rock festival offers punters a cross-section of our hottest bands in convenient packages. Dave Chislett reports.
On the fringe, Wordfest offers a forum for lovers of language in all its myriad forms. Catherine Knox dips in.
Mandla Langa and Hugh Masekela collaborate on a high-profile musical which premieres at Grahamstown. John Matshikiza reports.
This year’s festival proudly boasts six of the worst films ever made. Pass the popcorn, says Lauren Shantall.
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 […]