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/ 20 December 1996
Benjamin Pogrund COSTA GAZIDES has travelled a long political road from the days when, 32 years ago, he was charged alongside Braam Fischer with membership of the underground Communist Party, to last weekend when he was a delegate to the Pan Africanist Congress conference. The Sharpeville killings in 1960 were a first turning point in […]
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/ 20 December 1996
Magic Johnson and his ‘All Star Team are in South Africa to do more than ‘just play basketball Basketball: Julian Drew t’s in his smile. It’s a happy, spontaneous, infectious smile, an inherent response to the joys of living. It has always been that way for Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson. Ever since he burst on to […]
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/ 20 December 1996
Larry Elliott argues that the dragooning of ‘smaller nations by the World Trade Organisation into liberalisation can only benefit richer members STAFF at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) know when their boss is pleased with them. Renato Ruggiero beams his big Italian smile and says: ‘You have made well your work.’ The sunny side of […]
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/ 20 December 1996
Playwright Zakes Mda visits a small town in the Free State in this week’s installment of our guest writer series ‘Bert Oosthuizen? Just up the street,’ says the sweet Afrikaner girl with a ready smile. The throbbing sounds of Maak-Haar-Eina fill the cafe as she serves her black customers with fat cakes and Russian sausages. […]
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/ 20 December 1996
GLYNIS O’HARA does a ‘vastrap’ with Boereqanga’s Nico Carstens NICO CARSTENS, once the darling of boeremusiek, subsequently an outcast, has been staging a quiet comeback over the last few years through his work with the likes of Ray Phiri, Johannes Kerkorrel, and now boereqanga. It’s absolutely amazing what a nifty little name can do because […]
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/ 20 December 1996
James Meek in Moscow MOST Muscovites, cynical by nature, suspected the giant billboards were a trick to make them buy something they did not want. Others saw the adverts, featuring a beautiful woman gazing adoringly at all and sundry with the message ‘I love you’, as the latest wheeze by the mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, to […]
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/ 20 December 1996
In December 1959 Benjamin Pogrund covered a PAC conference in Orlando for the Rand Daily Mail. Now he reports on the latest PAC conference SHORTLY after 1am last Monday the Pan Africanist Congress was transformed from a dying no-hoper into an organisation of spirit and potential. The dramatic change came with the announcement at its […]
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/ 20 December 1996
CHARL BLIGNAUT shares lunch and ideas with Robert Hodgins, man of vision and painter extraordinaire ‘BETWEEN 12.30 and 3pm I paint in my underpants or not at all,’ says 76-year-old artist Robert Hodgins of the heat that, throughout summer, converts his makeshift outdoor studio into a sweltering greenhouse. Pretty apt, the greenhouse, I decide after […]
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/ 20 December 1996
Subsidy cuts to tertiary education institutions are far more serious than they at first appear, argues ‘Brenda Gourley, vice-chancellor of the University of Natal (Durban) There has been a great deal of news coverage about the subsidy and financial-aid cuts to universities. Organisations all over the world suffer reverses of fortune and trim their sails […]
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/ 20 December 1996
BAFANA KHUMALO spoke to Dawn Mpati, one of the new faces and voices in continuity on SABC2 in 1997 There used to be a time in this country when being on television meant celebrity. Continuity presenters would also appear in newspaper features full of inane details about their lives. That was when the television test […]