Harry Berkowitz in New York GIANNI VERSACE, an Italian dressmaker’s son, grew up to be founder and chief designer of a half-billion-dollar fashion empire with hundreds of outlets around the world, a line of fragrances and plans to sell part of the company to the public next year. But can that Milan-based company continue to […]
SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi JUST one month after the leg-weary footballers of South Africa were given a long-overdue break, the call to action has been sounded for the annual Iwisa Charity Spectacular at FNB Stadium on Saturday. Title holders Kaizer Chiefs face Sundowns in the first semi-final at 10am, followed by Orlando Pirates and Moroka Swallows […]
FRIDAY, 3.30PM The editor of the Kinshasa daily newspaper La Reference Plus has been interrogated by authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the paper reported splits within the new regime. Andre Ipakala was released on Thursday, one day after being detained. He said he underwent a lengthy interrogation over the report on an […]
FINE ART: Hazel Friedman ARTISTS Clifford Charles and Samson Mnisi could hardly be blamed for wanting to throw a brick through the window of their exhibition site. That’s how frustrated they must feel about the general response to their show. Their exhibition, B(l)ack in Town, is currently on display on the recently vacated 13th floor […]
Three white men with a briefcase of insurance policies are the leaders of a union at war with the NUM, writes Ferial Haffajee THE new union whose running battle with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)has claimed eight lives may have been set up as an elaborate insurance scam. The organisation, called Workers Mouthpeace, is […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: SOME 800 000 Liberian voters head for the polls on Saturday to choose a parliament and a president to govern Africa’s oldest republic, ravaged by a bitter seven-year civil war that has killed more than 150 000 people. A huge West African peacekeeping force from 10 nations has been stationed in Liberia since […]
Now that the lights have been turned off and the circus has left town, it’s time to take a stone-cold sober look at the 1997 Standard Bank 1997 Standard Bank National Arts Festival. What went down in G’town … Gwen Ansell AFRICAN music started to look like hot property at the Grahamstown Festival – but […]
FRIDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICAN and International Boxing Federation champion Mbulelo Botile defends his title against American Tim Austin on Saturday night at the Nashville Arena. A victory for Botile will earn him a fight with International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organisation champion Naseem “Prince” Hamed of Britain. Botile is reported to be in good […]
The intricate workings of the brain require a neurotransmitter called serotonin to function properly – too little leads to depression, too much causes unreal feelings of bliss Laura Grant DEPRESSION has been called the common cold of emotional life and Prozac, with worldwide sales of more than $2-billion and popped down the gullets of an […]
Political rivals could be discovering a way to peace through a growing sense of Zulu nationalism, writes Eddie Koch IT may just be that the troubled people of KwaZulu-Natal will find their peace not through delicate diplomacy or a tough approach to law and order, but because the ebb and flow of two less tangible […]