Singing along with Mariah Carey is no challenge, as Brian Logan discovered at her first-ever concert in London MARIAH CAREY once said about her video for the single Fantasy: “It’s difficult wearing all those hats, but the positive results were worth it.” By this standard, the UK debut of the top-selling recording artist of the […]
Despite the uncovering of the Venona Intercepts, Joseph McCarthy was a fink, argues Pallo Jordan During the late 1950s, as a high-school student drawn into the milieu of the left, I was given a book by an older comrade, who confided that it would set me straight on the “Trots” and other left-wing critics of […]
Angella Johnson The young tracker was apologetic. “You wouldn’t believe it. Last Friday we recovered seven stolen cars, today not one live one.” Cruising at a cool 200km/h about 2 000m above some of Johannesburg’s crime spots, we were on the lookout for two vehicles stolen in the Johannesburg area over the weekend. I had […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy A Cape Town-based Muslim community radio station is being hauled before the Independent Broadcasting Authority following an alleged contravention of its licence conditions. Voice of the Cape, which shares air-time with Radio 786, is to appear before the IBA’s Broadcasting Monitoring and Complaints Committee (BMCC) on July 9 for allegedly failing to inform […]
The Inkatha Freedom Party is planning to oust some of its top political representatives following its election defeat in KwaZulu-Natal’s main cities, the province’s economic heartland. Party members will also debate whether to form an alliance with either the National Party or the African National Congress. IFP leaders said the party was expected to do […]
The SABC’s expansion into rural bureaux has provoked a mixed response from radio stations, writes Jacquie Golding-Duffy SABC radio news is planning to expand its operation by establishing eight rural bureaux at an initial start-up cost of about R3,2-million. SABC radio news managing editor Alwyn Kloppers says increasing the number of newsrooms in rural areas […]
The Mark Gevisser Profile Since the Market Theatre opened in 1976, Janet Suzman has come home to do a play three times — almost exactly once a decade. And that, says theatre boss John Kani, is just about as much of her as they can take: “She’s a monster! An absolute monster! She presents a […]
Lynda Loxton Boland Bank, based in Paarl, has been transformed over the last year from a relatively small, mostly Western Cape bank into a more sophisticated market player serving the country as a whole. Not surprisingly, the process has placed some strain on management and revealed weaknesses in bad-debt control, which it is working hard […]
A huge explosion which injured 70 people in July 1987 and was blamed on `ANC terrorists’ was almost certainly the work of the police. Rehana Rossouw reports A bomb which former state president PW Botha described in July 1987 as a “callous act committed by terrorists under the godless control of criminals” was almost certainly […]
Julian Drew At the colourful and emotional send-off for the South African Olympic team last Sunday, the Olympic oath was read on behalf of the team by modern pentathlete Claud Cloete. While it is true that Cloete is only in the team courtesy of a wild card granted to athletes from developing countries to ensure […]