Glynis O’Hara QKUMBA ZOO have lost the “C” in their QCumba – but not the “Q” in their quirk. Arista Records in New York has decided the “K” makes more sense – otherwise people go round saying “QSumba Zoo”, they say. To which one can only reply – what school did these people go to? […]

A SMALL shopping centre in suburban Pretoria seems an unlikely spot for a restaurant specialising in African South African cuisine. You’d expect an antique shop in such a centre, perhaps, a caf, a post office, a select bookshop. But Ntombi Msimang chose the site for Safika carefully. She opened two months ago in Maroelana, a […]

Andy Duffy AROUND 8 500 Gauteng medical staff are to be redeployed or retrenched in a dramatic shake up of the province’s 35 hospitals. Three hospitals will close by February and seven – including Hillbrow -will be replaced with clinics or maternity centures. Staff at others – including Johnnesburg General and Baragwanath – will be […]

BORIS YELTSIN has blundered into new danger by his inept resolution of the Kremlin power struggle. Security chief General Alexander Lebed may be shrouded in darkness, but so are those who are attacking him. Lebed has at least brought a sort of peace to Chechnya. His principal opponent, Interior Minister General Anatoly Kulikov, had brought […]

FIGHTING spread in eastern Zaire this week with new raids on villages and refugee camps north of Goma, amid growing evidence of a co- ordinated strategy to drive Hutu extremists away from Rwanda’s border. Several dozen people were reported killed and tens of thousands more added to the wave of refugees. The latest attacks were […]

IT is time the African National Congress provided South Africa with a fresh dose of democracy. It is time to elect a president. Despite the country’s impressive start in the democratic tradition, the ideal has been flagging recently. The abrupt expulsion of Bantu Holomisa from Parliament has underscored the weakness of the party list as […]

A new research institute aims to make South African wines the toast of the world, writes Lesley Cowling PROFESSOR Sakkie Pretorius and his family had started packing, getting ready to move across the world. He’d been offered a dream job – head of a big research institute in New Zealand, where he would have the […]

SO when is it not wet and windy in Cape Town? I was about to abandon myself to the elements and head for the nearest Battery 9 gig when a pair of headlights split the night. I straighten out. My thumb, by now used to its role as travel agent, upright. The car slows down […]

Simon Hattenstone talked to Joe Menell and angus Gibson, the men who made the extraordinary filem Mandela, now on circuit. DO you believe film-makers can change the world? Jo Menell: Definitely. If not change the world, at least wake people up, give them something to think about. Angus Gibson: I’m not sure films change the […]

Despite numerous setbacks, the TNDT is making steady headway, reports Madeleine Wackernagel WHEN Eric Molobi, chairman of the Kagiso Trust Investment Company, took on the task of running the Transitional National Development Trust (TNDT), even this veteran of the struggle was not prepared for the battle ahead. Delays in setting up the trust and frustrations […]