Arts Alive visitor Salif Keita had to shrug off his noble ancestry to pursue his first love: music. He spoke to Bafana Khumalo AFTER reading reams of interviews and profiles of Salif Keita in the American press, one could be forgiven for expecting him to be a 10-foot warrior god. In most of what has […]

Jacques Magliolo COCA-COLA International will be back in South Africa before the end of this year, say the experts ahead of Coke’s planned Friday press announcement and following rumours that Coke Group president for Africa Karl Weir has been seen in South Africa. Though a press conference has been called for Friday, little information has […]

MIKE PROCTER lost his job as the South African team cricket coach last weekend because he had failed to rekindle South Africa’s famed fighting spirit on the recent tour to England, according to Krish Mackerdhuj. The side ended up losing the third Test, as well as the two one-day internationals, and was humiliated by Holland […]

Gambling’s main players revealed their hands this week, but they’ll have to wait for the referee to call the game. Stefaans Brummer reports WITH only a week left for submissions on the future of gambling, the main players are caught in a flurry of posturing and positioning to carve as large as possible a slice […]

Louise Flanagan GETTING Sun king Sol Kerzner to court to face bribery and corruption charges might be more difficult than hitting the jackpot in one of the Sun International (SI) casinos. The attorney general in the former Transkei homeland, Christo Nel, has determinedly chased the SI chairman for four years and he’s not ready to […]

MOSS CHIKANE, national co-ordinator of the former National Co-ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles (NCCR), comes in for severe criticism in the report on NCCR activities. A former United Democratic Front activist and Delmas treason trialist, Chikane decided unilaterally, while a NCCR regional liaison officer, to take managerial and financial decisions without any consultation, […]

THEATRE: Guy Willoughby Put together by its six creators for a frankly polemical purpose, Manje (“Now”) protests the harsh and sordid conditions that women in South African prisons have had to endure. If that sounds a rather daunting drawcard for an outing to the Civic Theatre, rest assured that this montage of mime, song, dialogue […]

Native tongue Bafana Khumalo MOTHERS of the world, a terrible thing is about to happen to your sons, again. The Seventies are coming back! The fashion — flared jeans and high-heeled shoes for men — and the music. Those were terrible times. The best we could do for intense entertainment was to listen to some […]

Wiseman Khuzwayo STOCK exchange whizzkid Greg Blank, now serving time for fraud, will be treated the same as any other prisoner, says the Department of Correctional Services. Blank began serving his eight-year sentence last Saturday after exhausting his opportunities to appeal against it. But South Africa does not have US-style special prisons for “white collar” […]