play Stefaans Brmmer AN independent pathologist is to probe the possibility of foul play in this week’s car accident death of Leonard Radu – the police assistant commissioner who was touted to succeed National Commissioner George Fivaz. Radu, the most senior former African National Congress cadre in the South African Police Service (SAPS), died early […]
Jane Campion’s been called the best female director in the world. What’s female got to do with it asks LIZZIE FRANCKE finds out what inspires the film-maker A COUPLE of years ago, a film magazine described Jane Campion as ”unquestionably New Zealand’s top woman director”. It was meant to be a compliment. At the time […]
A danger exsists that the ‘national interest’ will be used as an excuse to silence the new government’s critics, argues Peter Vale SHOW me the national interest and I’ll show you a politician’s trick. When Ronnie Kasrils evoked the national interest to defend the sheltered employment of Wouter Basson, I had a flashback to the […]
MUSIC: Neil Spencer ‘YOU have to be careful – you can suddenly find yourself tied in with Liberty’s new range of Indian cushions,” reflects Talvin Singh with a grimace. Tabla player, DJ, club promoter and now label boss, Singh is talking up his new compilation album, Anokha: Sounds of the Asian Underground (released by Omni/Mango […]
Grit, concentration and application were vital facets of Kepler Wessels’s approach to the game, and it is these qualities that the South Africans need if they are to compete with the Australians CRICKET:Jon Swift THERE is nothing basically dishonourable about losing. It is part of the complex business of life. The real inner examination though […]
Chris Dunton CHILDREN OF THE DIASPORA AND OTHER STORIES OF EXILE by Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane (Vivlia, R42,95) THE NAKED SONG AND OTHER STORIES by Mandla Langa (David Philip, R59,95) MBULELO MZAMANE’S title for his collection cues us in – his are largely stories that look back to the days of the struggle, and most are […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift TO call Auckland awesome is akin to predicting the onset of nightfall. It is on performance against the reigning Super 12 champions – even without skipper Zinzan Brooke – that other sides in the competition will be measured. Certainly, Helgard Muller’s Free State will be awaiting Friday’s opening game of a crowded […]
Indian film and music is reinventing itself, invading Western fashion and creating heated debate back home CINEMA: Derek Malcolm MOST in the West know little about Indian cinema, one of the oldest, most varied, largest and most glamorous entertainment industries in the world. The conception is that there was Satyajit Ray, a great director of […]
Mungo Soggot THE cash raised from the sale of Zenex Oil to Worldwide Africa Investment Holdings will go to the Zenex Foundation, which funds education projects for the under- privileged, Zenex Oil said this week. The foundation was started by United States oil giant Esso when it pulled out of South Africa in 1987 and […]
A hydro-electric project dam in northern Namibia could displace 2 000 people. Graham Hopwood reports from Windhoek THE Himba people in north-west Namibia are battling a plan to construct a hydro-power station and dam on the Kunene River which could flood up to 400km2 of their land. “We don’t want the construction of the dam. […]