Dave Chislett Sugardrive, leaders of the pack in the FNBSama Awards rock category, have been around for well over four years now. Probably best remembered as grunge masters who sounded uncomfortably like Pearl Jam, that is a phase that they would now rather forget. So far, they have released two albums, one EP and a […]
Andy Capostagno Cricket The horse-trading is over. We hope by the time you read this the squad to tour England will have been announced. And as ever, the armchair critic has plenty to bellyache about. ‘Twas ever thus. But since a good deal of the pleasure to be found in watching sport is connected directly […]
If the South African classical concert scene were truly Eurocentric, it would feature a lot more African music. That paradox is largely ignored in the confused debate around the future of our culture. While European concert halls currently offer hospitality to serialists, tonalists, aleatorists, minimalists, African composers and jazzmen all, the defenders of the classical […]
Who was Trevor Huddleston? Eric James It is remarkable that it was a white bishop whom the African National Congress asked to open their first conference in freedom in 1991. His return to South Africa as a hero, after an absence of 35 years, was the measure of the stature of Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, who […]
Andy Capostagno Tennis It’s just possible that you may have been lured into the belief that there is a tennis tournament going on in Johannesburg this week. Six of the finest players in women’s tennis are battling it out for $200 000 in prize money and you can witness all the action for as little […]
Andy Capostagno Rugby Not that last year’s Super 12 left South African teams with any reasons for complacency, but if anyone thought that the new regional system was a fast track to success they had better think again. Two- thirds of the way through the 1998 Super 12 and there are three South African teams […]
Mungo Soggot The taxpayer’s bill for Public Protector Selby Baqwa’s exploration of Minister of Minerals and Energy Penuell Maduna’s possible slander of the auditor general is on track to outstrip the corruption watchdog’s total annual budget of R7,5-million. At least five legal teams are due to appear before Baqwa’s investigation, which should run for at […]
Dan Glaister in London It was, to borrow a phrase, better late than never: 66 years after it was originally commissioned and 64 years after his death, Elgar’s unfinished Symphony No 3 received its world premire. The work, finished – or “elaborated upon” – by the composer Anthony Payne, received an ovation from a packed […]
The Durban Designer Emporium’s first exhibition installation was a facelift for fashion and performance art, writes Suzy Bell `Durban’s sub-culture needs to be tickled, then scratched,” hissed the chick with a live goldfish swishing about her liquid handbag. The blood still hasn’t quite drained from the flush of it all, but the gouges, at least, […]
Angella Johnson Five-year-old Magriet is practising her ballet steps, twirling around the cane furniture in her living room, watched by loving parent Gertruida Greyling, and Hermien Oosthuizen. The Brakpan lesbian couple celebrated a historic court decision this week when a judge ruled that their sexual proclivities do not preclude them from bringing up a child. […]