The National Gallery’s exhibition of images of District Six is a valuable reconstruction of our collective memory, writes NEVILLE DUBOW Question: Name the place in Cape Town that was destroyed and where the residents were forcibly emoved to the Cape Town townships? Answer: District Six Question: Name the building that was erected through the heart […]

Faces of 1996: We speak to the Standard Bank Young Artist Award-winner for Music Music: S’busiso Nxumalo EVEN when Victor Masondo recounts the story of how he landed a two-month gig as musical director for trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie’s 1991 Live the Future world tour, you never feel like he’s blowing his own horn. But perhaps […]

ATHLETICS:Julian Drew IN 1986 the Commonwealth seemed to be teetering on the edge of the precipice. Only the stand against apartheid seemed to be preventing its disintegration as an organisation and even then Margaret Thatcher obstinately refused to agree with the rest of its leaders. But the rallying call which ensured the Commonwealth’s survival nearly […]

Rowan Callaghan WHY did the chicken cross the road? The response in the near future could be “because there were too many chicken slaughterhouses erected nearby”. This could be a reality soon, especially since a new project was launched two weeks ago by the Farmer Foundation to supply rural entrepreneurs with hygienic, portable chicken slaughterhouses. […]

CINEMA: Andrew Worsdale AVI LERNER and Trevor Short – two producers who made junk over here in the heady days of tax- breaks and Hollyveld – have now teamed up with Martin Scorsese to produce an art movie. They claim it’s part of their plan to diversify their product from the usual Cyborg Cop I, […]

FORMER Witwatersrand attorney-general Klaus von Lieres und Wilkau, who says he retired because of ill-health earlier this year, is back in harness. He has been retained by a firm of attorneys in Alberton to appear for former KwaZulu policemen who are among the accused in the KwaMakutha trial and will make an appearance in the […]

Leon Perlman COMPUTICKET, the national computerised entertainment and leisure reservation service, has teamed up with service provider Internet Africa to provide an Internet booking service to cinema patrons on a 24-hour booking basis. Developed by Internet Africa’s World Wide Web service division, the service is an extension of Computicket’s telephone reservation system. According to Mike […]

Bill Gates has committed his vision of the future to paper and it will appear in shops around the world today. Bruce Cohen takes a look at Gates’ roadmap to the information LET me state my heresy upfront: I like Bill Gates. I think the founder and chairman of Microsoft is a pretty smart guy. […]

AS rumours multiplied yesterday of the imminent release of Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress in Lusaka said any plan to fly their jailed leader to freedom in another country would be And a representative of the state president’s office in Pretoria said there was absolutely no truth in speculation that an unconditional release of […]