Satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys in The 15-Minute Interview. By Charl Blignaut CB: We’re not late are we? PDU: Nee skat. Haai, this place [Le Samovar in Hyde Park, Johannesburg] is wonderful. It reminds me of New York. Have you been to the Russian Tea House in New York? CB: No. When do you go to New […]
The Zairean rebel leader has come from 20 years of exile obscurity with little clarity about his policies, reports Rehana Rossouw AS South Africa frantically sweated to put the final touches to Zairean peace talks this week, serious doubts began to emerge about the character of the man who holds all the cards – Laurent […]
SA SAILING:Jonathan Spencer Jones. ‘THE boat, all 42 tons of it, was picked up by a wave and literally thrown over the next wave to land flat, down on her side. But she picked up and off we went again.” And that, in Hurricane Fergus in the Pacific, just three days from Wellington, New Zealand, […]
FRIDAY, 3.30PM: AN episode of the British investigative TV programme The Cook Report, due to be shown on May 6, lifts the lid on SA hunting operations which charge large sums to set up kills for foreign hunters involving drugged or confined lions. The programme makes several allegations, including that: SA game farmers are breeding […]
FRIDAY, 4.00PM: THE African National Congress today offered its warmest congratulations to the British Labour Party and its leader Tony Blair for their landslide victory in the UK parliamentary elections. “The scale of the victory is indeed very rare in democracies today,” the party said in a statement. The ANC said it believes the victory […]
FRIDAY 11.00AM FIRST quarter electricity consumption in SA was up a seasonally adjusted 1,2% compared to the last quarter of 1996, according to latest figures from the Central Statistical Service. The quarterly increase came in spite of a 1,4% seasonally adjusted month-on-month decline from February to March. The average index of electricity production increased 1% […]
Last weekend was a busy time for South African culture – our journalists bring you the dirt from all over the show Judith Watt on the Vukani awards ‘Fashion is not just an industry,” says British designer Katharine Hamnett. “It exists as a cultural phenomenon; it reflects the underlying thing – what Jung calls the […]
South African-born Richard Stanley was fired as director of The Island of Dr Moreau after four days on set. ANDREW WORSDALE asks him why Twenty-seven-year-old renegade film-maker Richard Stanley had his first film taken away from him and re-cut. While studying at the Cape Town Film School his 15-minute Super 8 film, Rites of Passage, […]
HAZEL FRIEDMAN scrutinises the evocative prints of Eunice Geustyn and Alma Eta Vorster In the age of art-as-illustrated-press- release, it is all too easy to dismiss the arduous processes of print-making as being out of touch with current times. Still relegated to the bottom rung of the art collector’s ladder, prints tend to regarded as […]
police Police watchdog finds itself toothless as Western Cape officers defy its recommendations over Robben Island rape.Gustav Thiel reports THE Western Cape’s police commissioner, Leon Wessels, has defied calls by the government’s Independent Complaints Directorate that he reprimand two officers involved in the botched Robben Island rape investigation. Wessels this week also retracted the “unreserved […]