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 […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM HOUSING Minister Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele yesterday announced a plan to force builders using government subsidies to register, in an attempt to prevent consumers from rip-offs by imposing acceptable construction standards. The registration plan, which has drawn flak from major builders, involves the granting of statutory powers to the national Home Builders’ Association to impose […]
Barbara Ludman QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING by Christopher Brookmyre (Little, Brown, R59,75) THERE’S a certain attraction to a book which clearly sets out to be the most disgusting read of the year. Investigative reporter Jack Parlabane, hiding in Edinburgh from contract killers out to get him at his most recent port of call, Los Angeles, […]
SOUNDTRACKS ON CD: Shaun de Waal MOVIE soundtracks – the compilations of miscellaneous pop/rock tracks, not the original film scores – are highly favoured by record companies because of their commercial potential. Nine of them are sitting on this week’s Billboard Top 100. Such collections can often spark interesting juxtapositions between songs one might not […]
Maria McCloy SOUTH AFRICAN pop star Brenda Fassie has often been referred to as the “black Madonna”. But a local music magazine has taken the comparison a bit too far. The May 1997 debut issue of e’Vibe, “the only specialist pop magazine in the country”, has run an interview with Fassie titled Talking with Brenda […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM: TINY Sanet Marais won the 54-hole strokeplay section of the 1997 Bell’s Women’s Open amateur championship at Killarney, Johanesburg yesterday. Marais, of Maccauvlei Golf Club near Vereeniging, took both the strokeplay and matchplay titles in the same tournament in 1994. At the start of yesterday’s last round, she stood level at 146 with […]
Jonathan Romney THE word “epic” has been rather devalued in cinema ever since they revved up the chariots in the original silent Ben-Hur. This week, however, epic cinema returns to its classical roots, with the release of Ulysses’ Gaze, the latest film by Greek director Theo Angelopoulos. Over three hours, Harvey Keitel’s modern Homeric hero […]
LIVE MUSIC: Maria McCloy IT must have been a record – a local concert featuring some of South Africa’s hottest acts actually started and finished on time. But then again, maybe the Benson & Hedges Golden Tones bash last Saturday could have waited a little longer to get going: when I walked in at 6pm, […]