The Mark Gevisser Profile A voice of truth and dissent My comrades and friends killed my granny with fire… But before that, they sucked her breasts dry… so that she could burn well This poem by Sandile Dikeni, soon to be published in the upcoming two-volume edition of Staffrider, must be the most devastating and […]
Art was put in service of advertising in the spectacle that was BMW’s Sandton Square sculpture garden. IAN TROMP reports `IN the beginning there was silence.” Not even powerful lighting and loud music could redeem the voice-over accompanying Revelations in Form, an exhibition that was really a product launch for BMW’s new 5 Series. A […]
Hazel Friedman and Jacquie Golding-Duffy explain to confused viewers how to choose between the two satellite services — analogue and digital Astrasat, the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s satellite channel is being flighted free-of-charge to television audiences, but that will not be the case for much longer. According to SABC group communications manager Enoch Sithole, viewers […]
FINE ART: Andrew Putter THE first time I saw Ina van Zyl’s work was in Gif, the hard-core Afrikaner sex comic produced by Bittercomix and Hond in 1994. Tucked away amid the refreshing vulgarity of bad-boy artists like Joe Dog and Conrad Botes, Van Zyl’s two little stories came as a complete surprise. Quiet, questioning, […]
THEATRE: Matthew Krouse Long ago, when words were powerful, we would wish misfortune on our enemies with the oath: “May the gods shit on you!” This was supposed to remind us of our predestiny; that we are all at the mercy of fate. Life today may have altered, but the question of relinquished responsibility — […]
While Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe tries to quash all discussion about a successor, there are candidates waiting in the wings, reports Julius Zava Since Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe announced on television earlier this year that he will soon retire, identifying a successor has become a major topic of debate in Zimbabwe. But there is a […]
THE following statistics provided by the Brixton Murder and Robbery unit apply to the period from January to June 1996. Some arrests may involve multiple suspects for one case: Murder: 112 cases opened; 111 arrests. Robbery: 122 cases opened; 112 arrests. Attempted Robbery: Six cases opened; four arrests. Attempted Murder: 28 cases opened; 11 arrests. […]
THEATRE: Stephen Gray SOMETHING about Pieter-Dirk Uys is a lesson to us all. The biggest laugh he draws in Truth Omissions is about English speaking — that there is so little of it on TV these days, no one knows what’s going on anymore. This is his licence to keep developing his sly slanging act […]
Tebello Radebe Extensive new capital investments in South Africa have been part of lengthy discussions between the Japanese giant, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and its local affiliate, Toyota South Africa (TSA), which has become embroiled in a controversy over the National Empowerment Consortium (NEC) bid for Anglo’s stake in Johnnic. Asked again this week to […]
South Africans wanting to bring home people they’ve married overseas or intend to marry at home have to fork out R6 000, reports Marion Edmunds The Department of Home Affairs is making 28-year-old Mitch Yuill pay for his love — it is costing him more than R6 000 to bring his British-born bride into the […]