CINEMA: Jonathan Romney NOVELIST Paul Auster has described Blue in the Face as a “hymn to the great People’s Republic of Brooklyn”. Judging by the film, such a hymn would sound like a full brass band with Latino rappers and boozy singalong accompaniment, belting out an off- key version of Take Me Out to the […]

South Africa’s new Premier Soccer League kicked off last week with results — on and off the field — – not living up to expectations SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi ROUND two of the Premier Soccer League (PSL) comes up this weekend with clubs hoping for more goals and spectators and fewer red cards and armed robberies. […]

Kevin Mitchell unveils the game behind the Games in which baubles are converted into big bucks as athletes and accessories are reduced to marketable commodities in a procession from the podium to the bank THE organisers say that the Atlanta Games will “break even”. Well, that’s all right then. President Bill Clinton said: “They were […]

Plans to restructure the minibus taxi industry involve attracting foreign investment, but will also saddle the government with massive debts, reports Tebello Radebe The strife-torn minibus taxi industry can be made attractive to foreign investors if the government’s plans for the R8-billion sector take off. So says Dipak Patel, head of the National Taxi Task […]

THEATRE: Charl Blignaut IT wasn’t the lingering threat of a neurotic, gun- toting woman trying to claw the truth from a terrified fascist she’d tied to a chair for 24 hours that had me rattled as I left the Windybrow Centre for the Arts the other night. It wasn’t even the sinking realisation that there […]

Ann Eveleth Western Cape National Party leader Dawie de Villiers has been tipped for an ambassadorship, along with Inkatha Freedom Party MP Lionel Mtshali, in a new round of appointments expected also to include the Pan Africanist Congress. De Villiers’ imminent appointment comes hot on the heels of former NP parliamentary deputy speaker Bhadra Ranchod’s […]

When pressed, Kate Turkington, the sensitive host of Radio 702’s Believe It Or Not, admits she does have some beliefs of her own, writes KAREN DAVIS SUBTITLED The Way You Choose to Live Your Life, Kate Turkington’s radio show, Believe It Or Not, turned three last Sunday night. Its territory is a potential minefield of […]

When a UK union official was refused entry to South Africa, the Home Affairs Ministry had to take a fresh look at its inherited `stoplist’, writes Stefaans BrUmmer THE Department of Home Affairs still maintains a blacklist of “undesirable” visitors to South Africa — currently about 3 000 people. Now Deputy Minister Lindiwe Sisulu wants […]

Elliot Josephs talks to Rehana Rossouw about his struggle to launch a satirical magazine A CAPE Town author and artist is bringing a legal claim for damages against the Argus, owned by Independent Newspapers, after it refused to print his satirical magazine. Elliot Josephs, who describes himself as an “artist- cum-entrepreneur”, says his right to […]

Mungo Soggot SASOL, the synthetic fuel giant, this week took a regional magistrate to court for ordering it to hand to an inquest documents relating to a mining accident in 1993 which killed 53 workers. The magistrate, Mike Jungbluth, presided over the inquest which started in 1993 and was frozen pending the outcome of this […]