BONGANI NDODANA discovers Gilgamesh, a serious musical collaboration that specialises and harmonises in world music SOMEWHERE in the imaginary crossroads between rock, classical music and the music of the East, floats the creative energies of an ambitious, quirky quartet of white twenty-somethings, striving to make sense of what seem to be musical contradictions. Labels are […]
Tangeni Amupadhi and Stuart Hess A SELF-APPOINTED “guardian” of street children is due to appear in a Durban magistrate’s court this week to face charges of indecent assault on several children in his care. Reverend Livingstone Jacob, who founded and heads the Children Rights Ministry, was served with a summons this week to answer to […]
While Sugar Ray Leonard was disappointing America, his arch-rival Marvin Hagler was making a new life in Italy. BOXING: Gavin Evans `HEY-a Giuseppe – come-a da here.” The Italian-American doing the shouting is Lou Duva, trainer of champions, and when Lou hollers, heads turn because he has a mouth on him, and connections, and a […]
Chris McGreal writes from Kinshasa on the machinations behind the chaos in Zaire THE gatekeeper shakes his head in despair at mention of the leopards of President Mobutu Park. No one fed them, he says, until one by one they disappeared from their cages along with the lions and rhinos. Only a few starving monkeys […]
From the Cape Flats to downtown Johannesburg hip-hop is rising on the streets. We look at its evolution and its roots – and at what’s going down in Hollywood Maria McCloy in Johannesburg HIP-HOP is worldwide, or so the saying goes. Well it’s true there are rappers all around the globe – stretching from what […]
THE ANGELLA JOHNSON INTERVIEW PICTURE this as the new corporate logo for South African Airways: a humongous image of Desmond Tutu’s beaming face emblazoned on the tail of the national carrier, with the words “gravy plane” running alongside. This was just one of the numerous items of “hate mail” Peter Vundla says his advertising agency, […]
Mungo Soggot SOUTH AFRICA has experienced a massive surge in non-mineral export volumes matched only by the Asian tigers, says Mike Schssler, an economist at stockbroker EW Balderson. Schssler says latest Portnet figures show a 33% increase in the volume of exports that left the port of Durban last year. The port handles a wide […]
president IT is usual for newspapers, in the name of free speech, to excoriate those who resort to the laws of libel. But there are grounds for regret among the most freedom-loving of journalists that the case of De Klerk v Mokaba is unlikely to be heard, at least in relation to the African National […]
Susannah Frankel in Paris CALL it fin de sicle confusion if you will, but something, in fashion at least, is rotten. There was a cynicism underlying many of the so-called high points of the Paris autumn/winter ready-to-wear collections that made for uncomfortable viewing. Increased media attendance meant even fewer real clothes and more bare-faced sensationalism […]
Huge losses in revenue to pirates have goaded the music industry into constructive action, reports Glynis O’Hara IN China, eight people were executed last year for music piracy. “Just like that,” says Mike Snow, drawing a line across his throat with his finger. The trouble is, they weren’t the big guys. And, according to overseas […]