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. […]
Mungo Soggot TWO of Johannesburg’s elite schools went head-to-head this week, not on the playing field but in the somewhat seedier surrounds of the Randburg Magistrate’s Court, to settle a case of assault, with racial overtones and a sporting twist. The case stemmed from a fight at the Randburg Waterfront last year between two students, […]
Catalyst Films is becoming the busiest and most respected production house in South Africa. ANDREW WORSDALE reports IN early 1986 Jeremy Nathan was doing his military service with the film unit of the Entertainment Corp – a virtual propaganda wing for the South African Defence Force. At night, though, he’d hang out with friends Matthew […]
THEATRE:Andrew Wilson STEVE MARTIN’s award-winning play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, currently running at the Civic Theatre, bears a marked resemblance to Nicholas Roeg’s brilliant 1985 film Insignificance, sharing not only the concept, but some of the characters. Working from Terry Johnson’s satirical script, Roeg’s film gathers together four prominent characters from the Fifties in […]
Adrian Dawson in London A YOUNG playwright from Edenvale is currently earning interest in the West End of London, Britain’s theatreland. Backpay, by 24-year-old Tamantha Hammerschlag, is being staged at the illustrious Royal Court theatre, known for its pioneering of young talent. Hammerschlag is clearly delighted at having her work staged at the Royal Court. […]
Alexander Chancellor in London I CANNOT quite decide how worried to be about this cloning business. Since some scientists in Scotland announced recently that they had created an exact copy of a sheep from one cell in its udder, the British newspapers have been full of what they like to call “chilling prospects”. The Times […]
Mick Cleary OOPS! You’re barely round the first circuit of the interview and you’re off the track already. All those good intentions to steer a straight line along a route of technical interrogation, bluffing furiously about gear shifts, aerodynamic force, fuel loads, go up in smoke as you give into temptation and plough straight into […]