Native tongue Bafana Khumalo DEBI, come back, my love. All is forgiven. I apologise for treating you badly. I know that when we decided to call it quits last year — when you doffed your hat at me, clenched that cigarette at the corner of your mouth and said, “Keep the peace black brother, I […]

February is Black History Month in the United States — and, if you’re selling something, a time to put an `Afrocentric’ spin on your marketing. Tony Karon reports from New York THE road to Africa runs through the golden arches of McDonald’s. Or so one of their ads would have us believe: under an a […]

Dunhill Challenge: Bland misses out as Player opts for Buhrmann GOLF: Jon Swift IT is ironic that Gary Player, the Southern African team’s non-playing captian in next week’s inaugural Dunhill Challenge at Houghton, opted for the youth of Hendrik Buhrmann ahead of the experience of John Bland in finalising his line-up. As the current holder […]

Relics of the past or living legends? Shaun de Waal explains why The Rolling Stones are still exciting 30 years into their career `BLAME it on the Stones,” sang Kris Kristofferson in 1970, mocking the “Mr Modern Middle Class” who saw in The Rolling Stones the personification of evil and all that was corrupting of […]

IF there were a contemporary South African equivalent to LA Law or thirtysomething, it might include the following scene: He (crusty judge and self-appointed custodian of traditional hierarchies): You live in Cape Town … and you have small children? She (perky young female lawyer up for a judgeship): I do … one who is five […]

Gaye Davis CONTINUING unhappiness in party ranks over the National Party’s blurred identity and lack of direction are expected to come to a head at its caucus meeting in Stellenbosch tomorrow. NP sources discounted the possibility of a split but indicated NP leader FW de Klerk would face a challenge from a “new right” coalescing […]

CINEMA: William Pretorius SEX happens — but mainly outside America, to judge from the featherweight romantic comedy Only You and the Australian sex-pic Sirens, on circuit today. They’re both about sex, love and all that, but while the Australian film celebrates sexuality, American movies, it seems, are toning things down. The glimpse of Bruce Willis’ […]

Perennial rivals Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates are heading for a Top 8 final clash, but their semifinal opponents have other ideas SOCCER: Clinton Asary IT is the ideal semifinal draw for a cup competition, the one soccer administrators and sponsors dream about, thus adding fuel to allegations that the draw for the BP Top […]

Former police commander Eugene de Kock’s trial next week promises a taste of things to come, reports Stefaans Brummer TOP police officers and politicians will be watching closely when Eugene Alexander de Kock goes on trial in Pretoria on Monday. A number of them have been implicated in the “Third Force” misdeeds for which the […]

THEATRE: Bafana Khumalo YOU Fool, How Can the Sky Fall? could be the beginning of a new trend in black theatre — or it could be a one-off. One hopes it is the former, signifying a new phase in post-apartheid theatre where playwrights move away from the hackneyed formulae of the past, in which a […]