Peter Makurube The best jazz in ages, with a variety and quality that is mind boggling -this is what the 10th anniversary of jazz at the national arts festival promises. It is a programme paying homage to the growing relationship between European jazz musicians and their South African counterparts, a relationship that began more than […]
Ian Harris and Struan Douglas Moments before the launch of Dantai’s debut album, Operation Lahlela, lead singer Pam Lungu was standing outside, alone on the chilled pavement, smoking. All tense and apprehensive. ”Looks like you’re expecting,” we joked, intuiting in her excitement the arrival of something unique. Not the album – we knew that was […]
The election has rescued three apartheid dinosaurs from political extinction, write Mungo Soggot and Evidence wa ka Ngobeni South Africa’s answer to Ross Perot, Louis Luyt, is heading for Parliament as the sole voice of his fledgling Federal Alliance party. On Thursday night it appeared Luyt would be the only representative from his party who […]
investors Donna Block President-elect Thabo Mbeki is frequently quoted saying, ”It’s time to get to work,” and foreign investors are keen to see he if keeps his word. Most economists and Africa watchers agree that direct foreign investment – investment in resident enterprises – will stay on the sidelines as investors take a wait-and-see attitude […]
World music’s latest folk music craze makes it to Grahamstown. Peter Makarube reports.
ALL four opposition parties in Mpumalanga’s legislature appear set to form a coalition against the ruling African National Congress. The Democratic Party, which won 4,5% of the provincial vote, met with New National Party representatives in Witbank on Tuesday to discuss the proposed alliance. Further meetings between the NNP, United Democratic Party and Freedom Front […]
SENIOR officials from the departments of Health and of Agriculture and Land Affairs are to meet in Pretoria on Wednesday to discuss a health scare caused by the importation of alleged cancer-causing Belgium food products. Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs director for food safety and veterinary public health, Gideon Bruckner said the meeting will […]
WEDNESDAY, 6.30PM: SOUTH AFRICAN all-rounder Shaun Pollock made the most of the chance to hone his batting when he clubbed a depleted Nottinghamshire attack all over Trent Bridge on Wednesday. Pollock hit 87 off just 59 deliveries to take the tourists to a commanding 50-over total of 284/6. The 25-year-old Natalian spent his hour at […]
WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: THE United States department of agriculture may consent to allow South African pineapples — banned from the US since 1986 — back into the country after deeming that no “pest of concern” lurks in the fruit, and that they pose no competition to US producers. This opens up the market for South Africa […]
THE son of a prominent Pagad member has died after being shot while playing soccer in Mitchell’s Plain, Cape Town, on Sunday. Moegamat Heuwel (17), son of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs member Abdul Heuwel, died in Groote Schuur Hospital early on Wednesday morning. He was shot four times, in the head and body, by […]