CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser TWO outstanding soloists and an orchestra still inspired by Gerard Korsten’s recent visit marked the first two concerts conducted by Vladimir Simkine, the Russian conductor currently on the podium in front of the National Symphony First Tasmin Little gave a breathtakingly lyrical account of Beethoven’s violin concerto. Her articulation was always […]

THEATRE: David Le Page MARABI is a musical story of the Doornfontein slumyards of early Johannesburg, and of the musical culture that sprang up from that misery. If anything, this Junction Avenue Theatre Company production at the Market Theatre celebrates marabi culture more than the music The play focuses on the lives of the Mabongo […]

THE National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Wednesday said it would appeal against prison sentences imposed on three miners’ wives for trespassing at a De Beers diamond company in The women are serving their sentences at a prison in the Northern Cape town of Springbok. Two children, aged eight months and four years, were staying […]

Dedicated to providing the people of Alexandra with hard-hitting local news, ALX.FM is proving that interactive radio is what people want. Itumeleng oa Mahabane reports RAP star and erstwhile self-proclaimed hip-hop thugster Tupac Shakur hangs placidly from a wall in the studio booth at ALX.FM. The poster carries the title of his latest album, Me […]

A key witness, who could provide explosive evidence in the trial of General Magnus Malan and other officers, is under protection overseas SEVERAL men, including at least one white former officer, are overseas on a witness protection programme and will be key players in the murder trial of General Magnus Malan and his co- According […]

BALLET: Stanley Peskin MORE than a century after The Nutcracker was first conceived for the Maryinsky Theatre at St Petersburg as part of the Christmas festivities in 1892, it continues to hold the stage. Andr Prokovsky’s production for Pact Ballet takes its impetus not only from Lev Ivanov, the ballet’s original choreographer, but also from […]

The IFP has renewed its battle cries over the alleged assassination of about 400 party leaders. Ann Eveleth investigates the claims INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi wept last Saturday as he read the political eulogy for the Wembezi funeral of the three Dladla brothers. Gunned down almost three weeks ago on the way to […]

AND at the end of the week, does it really seem any less important than it did in the instant 1 000-megawatt surge of collective astonishment on Monday night? Absolutely not; indeed if anything, it seems more important rather than less. Re-viewing the interview with the Princess of Wales two things are clear. First, it […]