Swapna Prabhakaran Durban has a long way to go before it becomes an undisputed party capital of the world, but it can certainly dream. “Imagine, if you will, 4 000 drummers in one stadium in Durban beating the various rhythms of the world, while thousands more drummers join in via satellite link from around the […]
Mungo Soggot Professor Andr Thomashausen has accused the probe into Mathole Motshekga of violating the Constitution by banning the Gauteng premier from seeing him. He has also challenged the African National Congress to release tapes of his interview with the commission of inquiry into Motshekga. The commission recommended that Motshekga sever all ties with Thomashausen, […]
Charlene Smith South African shares continue to attract strong foreign interest as nervous investors scuttle away from South-East Asian markets – all of which is having a positive impact on unit trusts and managed portfolios. But it may be too early to bring out the champagne. Tony Bell, head of fund management at Nedcor Investment […]
Peter Frost On stage in Cape Town Retro-shows. You’ve got to hate them. The Beatles, Stones, Rock’n’Roll, Abba. The peddling of a simpler, sweeter tune to an audience desiring the sanctity of an understandable past. Big business in South Africa for years now, and well-received by suburban audiences, if not critics who fail to see […]
The new Afrikaans TV thriller Die Vierde Kabinet gives Gys de Villiers another leading role. Janet Smith discovers fame hasn’t necessarily meant fortune Two old Cessnas, a panel van and a Kombi make up the inventory of Logistic Inc, a company fictionalised into unsuspecting political life by Afrikaans TV thriller maestro Jan Scholtz in his […]
The University of Pretoria’s celebrated Van Tilburg collection may have been stolen from Dutch Jews, writes Bart Luirink In 1951 Jacob van Tilburg, a Dutch art collector, managed to transfer 91 cases with valuable art pieces to South Africa – a remarkable effort for somebody who, three years earlier, had been sentenced for collaboration with […]
The University of Pretoria’s celebrated Van Tilburg collection may have been stolen from Dutch Jews, writes Bart Luirink In 1951 Jacob van Tilburg, a Dutch art collector, managed to transfer 91 cases with valuable art pieces to South Africa – a remarkable effort for somebody who, three years earlier, had been sentenced for collaboration with […]
Charlene Smith Outside a Johannesburg court, a policeman and private investigators compare notes before testifying at a trial of a major criminal syndicate. The policeman’s original notes came from the private investigators, who in turn were contracted by major medical aid firms to investigate millions of rands worth of fraud. As soon as they came […]
A new treatment for male impotence is taking the world by storm, writes Tim Radford Lewis Carroll should have patented the idea: swallow a little something and feel just swell. “I know something interesting is sure to happen,” said Alice when she found the bottle. “I hope it will make me grow large again, for […]
Alex Dodd On show in Johannesburg He thinks it was Andy Warhol who said it. Something like, if you can’t appreciate the beauty in a Coke can what’s the point of being alive right now? “You’ve got to be able to appreciate the beauty in the world around you – just the way it is,” […]