The latest SA/UK gospel choir collaboration is a sign of the rebirth of interest in local choral music. GWENANSELL looks at the state of songs of praise HIT parade trends may come and go, but South Africa’s love affair with gospel seems to go on forever. Its latest expression is an incandescent vocal collaboration between […]
CINEMA: Andrew Worsdale IAN KERKHOF is South Africa’s most radical and prolific film-maker. He has been resident in Amsterdam since the mid-Eighties, when he went into exile and worked for the Dutch anti- apartheid movement and South African War Resistance until 1986. Since then he’s made over 20 films, all of which push the envelope […]
FINE ART: Hazel Friedman WHEW. Breathing space. That’s one of the first reactions one has to Zone, the all-girl group show currently on at the Generator Art Space. Admittedly, the welcome sigh derives partly from the fact that these days almost anything represents a respite from the work of the Caucasian Testosterone Club – that […]
The winner of 1997’s first Grand Slam tournament became the youngest No 1 in the history of women’s tennis when she succeeded Steffi Graf TENNIS:Stephen Bierley THE man in the Lipton Championships courtesy car knew a lot about tennis. He eased himself back in his driving seat, squinted into the dazzling early-morning Florida sun and […]
Soul-jazz diva Erykah Badu is climbing the world’s charts and has been hailed as the new Billie Holliday. DAN GLAISTER takes in her British debut INCENSE, candles, an ethnic curio on the floor – the set suggests voodoo, but this is no voodoo show. Welcome to Baduizm, the precinct of Erykah Badu, a 26-year-old singer-songwriter […]
Do not adjust your set. The image is changing. Maria McCloy on a fresher generation of South African television presenters REMEMBER the days when everything on TV, including shows aimed at the younger generation, was hosted by 40-year-olds with matching shirts and cheesy grins? When the music shows were presented by blonde English wannabees and […]
THEATRE: Julie Barker `THE struggle never made me famous.” These are words uttered by a gangster at the height of his career. This is Gomorrah!, a powerful new work directed by Pule Hlatshwayo, and conceived by the cast, all graduates of the Market Theatre Laboratory. Gomorrah! explores the inevitability of violence as a way of […]
ART: Julia Teale THE paintings of Trevor Makhoba, Standard Bank Young Artist award-winner for 1996, display an unusual intensity of vision and execution. There is no doubt that Makhoba is an accomplished painter, with a sophisticated understanding of both the psychological and aesthetic potential of colour. In this regard, the paintings are often seductive, drawing […]
DEREK MALCOLM meets Emir Kusturica, the Bosnian director, whose film Underground opens in SA this week HE looks like a veteran rock star, tall and handsome if slightly dishevelled from too much touring. But Emir Kusturica, who hails from Sarajevo, is a film-maker without a rock star’s vanity. He speaks quietly and with conviction off […]
A partnership between government and private sector has been formed to tackle development backlogs, writes Lynda Loxton Government and the private sector are investigating innovative financing packages to foot the estimated R170-billion to R230- billion bill to tackle infrastructure backlogs throughout the country. They met behind closed doors in Cape Town last week to examine […]