And then there were Nine … Malu van Leeuwen spoke to four=20 alternative funksters creating a stir in Cape Town THE first time I met Nine, they dubbed their sound gham- rock, or, as one of their fans put it, “Cape Malay=20 alternative funk”. While drinking the pub dry, all four of=20 Nine expanded on […]
SOCCER: Gerald Combrinck AGAINST all odds, league champions Orlando Pirates survived=20 a psychological war and “dirty tricks” campaign mounted=20 against them in their trip to Nigeria two weeks ago.=20 So it would be fair to say the Pirates have every right to=20 make life difficult for their opponents, BCC Lions, when=20 the two clubs meet […]
Sheena Duncan THE Black Sash is not disbanding, as Business Day posters proclaimed this week. We are alive and well and forty years old, celebrating our birthday. We will be continuing our work in our restructured form as the Black Sash Trust. The Black Sash was formed in 1955 as the Women’s Defence of the […]
Classical Music: Coenraad Visser ANTON NEL, the South African pianist now attached to the=20 University of Michigan, concluded his stay with the=20 National Symphony Orchestra with a pedestrian performance=20 of Bartok’s third piano concerto. Playing from the score,=20 Nel showed strong and nimble fingers, but not much else.=20 This concerto finds the composer at his […]
With rugby in South Africa no longer just for whites, radio=20 commentary of the World Cup will be in all 11 official=20 RUGBY: Barney Spender WITH the World Cup rollercoaster gathering pace, and black=20 market tickets for the big games already changing hands at=20 silly prices, it is important to stop and reflect for a=20 […]
With prize money on offer in the Comrades Marathon for the=20 first time this year, foreign runners, especially the=20 Russians, are a big threat to local athletes ROAD RUNNING: Julian Drew T HIS year will be one that the Comrades Marathon=20 traditionalists will rue, but just like King Canute they=20 were unable to prevent the […]
Jacques Magliolo That the head of a new black empowerment venture is=20 respected political figure Oscar Dhlomo lends it immediate=20 political credibility — and there are similarities to the=20 creation of Thebe. Dhlomo will head a business consortium which will in turn=20 run Continental Investment Limited, an investment fund=20 worth R200-million, launched by Absa Merchant […]
Mail & Guardian reporter SEVERAL top figures in Namibian politics, including two cabinet ministers and the Southern African Development Community (SADC ) executive secretary, have been accused of misusing drought relief aid. The Namibian Cabinet in early May refused to release the report of an investigation into the abuse of funds while ‘clearing’ all top […]
The government’s brave new housing loan scheme will bring houses within the reach of the poor, writes Gaye Davis A YEAR to the day after Joe Slovo first walked into the Ministry of Housing to give it the shake-up of its life, his successor, Sankie Mthembi-Nkondo, could this week announce a June 5 start for […]
Gaye Davis A NEW “super-committee” aimed at slicing through red-tape and other obstacles hampering investigations into police violations of human rights is to be set up at national The move comes days after human rights organisations released a 300-page report charging that police torture of suspects on criminal charges was endemic and that other abuses […]