The Beatles came back, the Stones kept going — and Blur and Oasis echoed an old rivalry, writes Shaun de Waal TWENTY-FIVE years after they broke up, The Beatles are back — well, sort of. The band broke up in 1970, and John Lennon was killed in 1980, but in 1995 the remaining Beatles put […]
KwaZulu/Natal’s People and Parks conference was a new=20 milestone in conservation policy, reports Ann Eveleth THE future of game reserves in KwaZulu/Natal will de-pend=20 on how the question of land reform is resolved in that=20 province. This was the central issue to emerge from a=20 landmark conference about conservation and community=20 development held in Durban […]
Right-wing political groups are trying to use a UN initiative to protect indigenous peoples for their own political ends, reports Eddie Koch A GROUP of boers, bushmen, basters and Zulu nationalists will make a bizarre set of bedfellows when they rally around the vierkleur, the pennant of the white right, at a conference this month […]
DESPITE his funky dreadlocks and good looks, Gito Baloi is a marketing person’s nightmare. The bass player whose four-string wizzardry can be heard on all the Tananas albums is far too polite and humble for an aspiring pop star who has just released a stunning solo album, which his record company wants to push overseas. […]
The African Development Bank meeting to elect a new=20 president turned into a ‘circus’. Kevin Rafferty in Abuja,=20 Nigeria, reports A meeting of governors of the African Development Bank=20 broke up in disarray in Abuja, Nigeria, this week after=20 failing to elect a new president.=20 The governors will meet again in the headquarters city of=20 […]
The Volkstaat Council has concluded that its dream is not practicable, reports Jan Taljaard After 44 council meetings, 60 committee meetings and more than R3-million in salaries for its 20 members, the Volkstaat Council (VC) has abandoned the idea of an Afrikaner homeland — for the time being. The VC, a council of rightwingers investigating […]
SOCCER: Gerald Combrinck=20 AFTER their defeat in the BP Top final, log leaders Kaizer=20 Chiefs have a score to settle with Wits when the two sides=20 meet in a league game at Milpark on Saturday.=20 “We are ready to destroy Wits in revenge for the cup=20 defeat,” said Chiefs PRO Louis Tshakoane.=20 Wits are likely […]
Evan Speechley may be a “glorified water boy”, but his job is a lot more important to the Springboks than that RUGBY: Luke Alfred THE sports physiotherapist’s role is overlooked by fans and journalists, yet the physio is surely one of the more crucial members of any team. In the case of Evan Speechley, physio […]
JAZZ CD OF THE YEAR: Ronald Atkins ANY shortlist of jazz groups of the year must include the Mingus Big Band. All their material was written long ago by Charles Mingus. So, does their album Gunslinging Birds (Dreyfus FDM) confirm the fears of those who grumble about jazz navel-gazing instead of thrusting ever onward? If […]
Reg Rumney=20 While the world waits for South Africa to spell out its=20 privatisation plans, next door, Mozambique has thundered=20 ahead with a far-reaching privatisation programme. By the end of February this year, Mozambique’s government=20 had privatised 21 large, strategic enterprises, and plans=20 to privatise a further 40 or so over the next two years,=20 […]