FRIDAY, 11.00AM: THE Wimbledon tournament has built up a backlog of over 130 unplayed matches, as Thursday was declared a day of no-play due to a continuous downpour. The weather beaureau predicted five more days of non-stop rain — a bleak outlook for scheduled matches. Thirty singles players have not yet begun their first round […]
candidate Iden Wetherell A ZIMBABWEAN Cabinet minister and three members of Parliament stood by as youth members of President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party beat up an independent mayoral candidate. The incident, in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe’s largest township adjoining the capital Harare, reinforces fears that the country is reverting to its past habits of electoral intimidation, civil […]
SUZY BELL visits playwright Mbongeni Ngema at his Durban home to find out where his life and his work are at after the Sarafina 2 scandal `SARAFINA 2 messed up my life, both professionally and personally,” says Mbongeni Ngema with absolute candour. “It stressed me out so much I landed in hospital with high blood […]
NOT for the first time the name of Swanieville evokes horror and revulsion. Five years ago, a Zulu impi cut a bloody swathe through the squatter camp, attacking alleged African National Congress supporters, in full view of the police. The police were again on the scene this week as schoolchildren were bussed in to exact […]
Despite criticism of Gear, the strategy is on target and the country should tough it out, Maria Ramos tells Madeleine Wackernagel DIRECTOR General of Finance Maria Ramos believes Gear is right on track. “Well she would, wouldn’t she,” was one cynical response, but to hear her tell it, the government’s growth, employment and redistribution strategy […]
Krisjan Lemmer Sorry, wrong number THE Alberton Magistrate’s Court this week hosted an inquest into a sterling example of South African detective work. On July 5 1994, a family from the Transkei were cruising along the Old Vereeniging Road in their white Toyota bakkie when they were pulled over by the police. Minutes after being […]
DOCUMENTA X: Brenda Atkinson and Ian Traynor SPURRED by the conviction that “art alone is not enough” and jeered at and reviled by critics, the uncompromising French curator Catherine David last week unveiled the world’s biggest contemporary art exhibition. A meandering network of venues in the central German city of Kassel is the setting for […]
Venus Williams, the supercool prodigy who made her Wimbledon debut this week, may be the star but her father calls the shots. That’s all right though – he’s not one of those tennis parents-from-hell TENNIS:Richard Williams OKAY, Venus Williams thought, yawning on the inside. Let’s deal with it. “Know what?” she said to the dozen […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM THE Independent Broadcasting Authority will allow pay station M-Net to keep its free-viewing window, in a decision likely to upset the national SA Broadcasting Corporation and bidders for the free-to-air TV license on offer later this year. The SABC and other bidders had registered strong objections to M-Net’s maintaining the hour-a-day free-viewing window […]
MUSIC VIDEO: Nathan Zeno LIKE Tom Waits on ecstasy, they unfold on to the stage, horns blaring. Smiling and nervous, a matric dance band with one size too big trousers: The Honeymoon Suites. They showed us who they were last weekend by playing two gigs with several of Cape Town’s top rock acts. At the […]