Alex Dodd Strange how we’re so often blind to our own artistic treasures. Many of us speed past one or two works of wall art every morning on the way to work. Meanwhile in Holland they’re busy lighting up the lives of pedestrians and commuters. Led by public artist and popular Jo’burg DJ Nicky Blumenfeld, […]
Gaby Wood Movie of the week Robert Duvall has been thinking about making The Apostle, a film about a Pentecostal preacher in the American South, for more than 20 years. He has called preaching ”the only authentic American art form”. Some time ago Duvall was due to star in a Sidney Lumet film about two […]
As I read Xolela Mangcu’s heartfelt ode (Crossfire, June 5 to 11) to the need for national values, I see the jets roaring over the Union Buildings, leaving behind in their thundering blur a rainbow of colours. Presidents, ministers and generals stand stony-faced, with hand on heart, framed by the deafening adulation of people waving […]
Tangeni Amupadhi and Wally Mbhele Former Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) operative Johan Niemoller, named in court this week as the mastermind behind a recent spate of arms heists from military bases, has a long history of supplying military equipment and other assistance to the Angolan rebel movement, Unita. Niemoller was in 1995 named as the […]
in Carletonville Andr was in matric in a small Afrikaans mining town when he began taking the hormone tablets that would ultimately transform him into Tula – but only more than 20 years later. Charl Blignaut traces one woman’s story of emancipation ‘Every day of my life I threaten to leave Carletonville,” sighs Tula from […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.00PM: THE South African Communist Party on Wednesday hit out at the government’s growth, employment and redistribution policy (Gear), saying it is misplaced to address socio-economic needs, and has manifestly failed to reach its stated targets. Addressing the SACP’s 10th congress at Crown Mines in Johannesburg, SACP general secretary Charles Nqakula said: “We remain […]
Shaun de Waal BEELTENIS VERBODE by Hennie Aucamp (Human &Rousseau, R79,95) In this book, Hennie Aucamp, one of the leading prose-writers in Afrikaans, collects his reviews, done mostly for the magazine De Kat, of what he calls following the Dutch egodokumente. By that he means biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, collections of letters. Almost all the subjects […]
Ed Vulliamy Baseball Before he pitched his first ball from the mound at Yankee Stadium earlier this month, Orlando Hernandez paused and looked around at the crowd with an expression that mixed disbelief, joy, awe and a little pain. It was the end of a rainbow, and of a six- month journey, for the Cuban. […]
A new movie has put Julie Christie back in the spotlight she loathes. She tells Ian Hamilton about her amnesia In her latest film, Afterglow, which was released in South Africa this week, Julie Christie plays a character called Phyllis Mann, a one-time Hollywood film actress. Middle-aged and locked into a dire marriage to the […]
Shaun de Waal CD of the week I aint down here for your money, I aint down here for your love, sings Nick Cave on the first song of the new Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (DGR). Im down here for your soul. Whether playing the hellfire preacher or the devils advocate, […]