Roger Pratt This weekend Soul Trading, a new Johannesburg-based outfit trading in rare and exotic goods, will be holding the first in a series of weekend bazaars showcasing select ranges of handicrafts from around the world. This first show covers an eclectic range, from Moroccan lanterns to tooled Tuareg leather, Balinese wood, rattan and basketware […]
Venus, Goddess, Chocolate and Rasta Queen are the sizzling, street-smart, breed of girl band, set to shoot some pride into the sistahood, writes Adam Levin Half the Ghetto Luv crew still live with their folks. The other half live in a once- grand Art Deco building in Yeoville, in a flat without a door. Don’t […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 9.00PM. THE Richmond killers have been identified as a five-man hit-squad with military backgrounds, SABC3 has reported. Their leader is known to speak Afrikaans fluently, and police have been searching for them for a year already in connection with previous massacres. Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi announced the news […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.00AM. STATE herald Fred Brownell said on Thursday that former South African Rugby Football Union boss Louis Luyt cannot claim the Springbok emblem to be his own. Luyt earlier charged that the emblem belongs to him, saying: “It was designed by me, it belongs to me.” Brownell said that a […]
Marion Jones is aiming for five golds in the 2000 Olympics. Duncan Mackay reports on an athletics phenomenon When Florence Griffith Joyner set world records for the 100m and 200m a decade ago experts predicted they were so far ahead of their time that they would stand for 50 years. But the emergence of Marion […]
Peter Frost : On show in Cape Town Despite all the prattle to the contrary, the ongoing debate about the evolution of theatre in South Africa still centres on the argument over which is preferable – a Eurocentric or ethnic approach. Many, like government, various NGOs and some arts bodies expect change, which means better […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.00PM. THE Free State Cheetahs stormed home to beat Border 36-18 in a Bankfin Currie Cup rugby clash in Bloemfontein on Friday night after leading 18-12 at the break. The inclusion of three Springbok players — Werner Swanepoel, Willie Meyer and Naka Drotske — in the Free State side made […]
Marthali Brand went to the opening of Graceland, the garish new casino in Mpumalanga Why is it that all roads to South African casinos lead through squatter camps? On my way to the opening of the first fully functional casino in the new South Africa, all I could think of as our luxury coach travelled […]
Tracy Murinik Whether you’ve been aware of it or not, if you’ve been living in South Africa within the past four decades or so, and if you’ve experienced any of this country’s major cities (and even some smaller towns), then it is likely that you have at some point encountered Revel Fox. Or his vision […]
Nation Heidi Clark The United Nations this week awarded First Nation status to one of South Africa’s oldest peoples, the Griquas. Plettenberg Bay councillor Sammy Jansen, a member of the Griqua political party, the Executive National Conference, says this is the UN’s acknowledgement of his nation as among the first inhabitants of South Africa. It […]