WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM: THE SA Football Association has given up trying to meet its Zairean counterpart to discuss the threatened Zairean withdrawal from the World Cup because of financial problems. Safa boss Danny Jordaan said every effort had been made to contact the Zaireans, but to no avail. It would now be up to Zaire to […]
FINE ART: Hazel Friedman PASCUAL TARAZONA is undoubtedly a material man. Acclaimed in the 1970s and 80s as an award-winning designer of beautiful clothes for equally beautiful women, the Spanish- born artist’s love affair with sensual, layered textures continues into his his painting. And in his most recent body of work currently on display at […]
MALAYSIA TO BUY COPTERS VISITING Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Bin Mohamad said on Wednesday that “chances are good” that his country buy South Africa’s Rooivalk military helicopters. Defence Minister Joe Modise will visit Malaysia in November to finalise the deal. Earlier, Mahathir received South Africa’s highest award, the Order of Good Hope, from President […]
Glynis O’Hara IN the Afrika Oye! concert featuring Cameroonian Brice Wassy, Mabe Thobejane and Madala Kunene at the Johannesburg city hall tonight, there’s a quiet, unnoticed victory to be noted for one of the musicians. His name is Sello Montwedi (33), and a year ago he was flat on his back in intensive care, paralysed […]
WEDNESDAY, 6.30PM THE French aid group Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF; Doctors Without Borders) has reported continued heavy fighting in the town of Kenge, 200 kilometres east of Kinshasa. Some 200 civilians and 100 goverment soldiers have been killed, but rebels have not yet taken the town. The MSF sources have refuted claims by rebel spokesman […]
WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: RESPONSIBILITY for a spate of “fund-raising” robberies in the Eastern Cape in the early 1990s has been claimed by the Pan Africanist Congress in amnesty applications by PAC members to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Most of the applicants are in prison, many of them jailed for robbery. Among other attacks PAC members […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM: SOUTH African cricket captain Hansie Cronje’s blistering 85 off 96 balls was not enough to save Ireland from a six-wicket defeat against Glamorgan in the B&H Cup yesterday. Cronje, on loan as skipper of the Irish side hit a cracking innings including three sixes and six fours to help Ireland to 202/9. But […]
Mary Benson’s new book celebrates Athol Fugard and Barney Simon, writes MATTHEW KROUSE THE present era of truth and reconciliation is marked by recollections of tragedy, as well as tales of great accomplishment. It can even be amusing, in hindsight, to hear some of the stories of the “struggle years” – stories such as the […]
Maria McCloy `THAT’S not the exact history, it has to be corrected,”says Margaret Dongo of Flame, the movie exploring the part played by women – particularly combatants – in Zimbabwe’s war of liberation. Flame opened in South Africa in April. It has already won six international awards, been screened at Cannes and has broken box […]
Crippled sports stars swear by him, but orthodox medicine frowns. David Davies meets Hans-Wilhelm Mller-Wohlfahrt, the doctor who rescued Jose Maria Olazabal from despair WHEN Jose Maria Olazabal, hunched against the pain and walking on his heels, limped slowly and very sadly into the Munich consulting rooms of Dr Hans-Wilhelm Mller- Wohlfahrt there was no […]