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/ 17 November 2006
We review some of the hottest music you have to have this festive season.
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/ 17 November 2006
The album <i>Frieze</i> illustrates that Chris Letcher is one of the greatest songwriters to grace the shores of this southern-most tip of Africa, writes Lloyd Gedye.
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/ 17 November 2006
As a fortnight of limited-overs spectacle dawns this weekend, one can’t help watching the newly arrived Indians with the grim, respectful pity usually displayed by onlookers in that part of the film where the dapper young engineer has drawn the short straw and must now leave his fiancée to fly into space where a comet and nuclear bomb have his name on them.
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/ 17 November 2006
Jake White should have savoured the past six days. When he looks back on his career as Springbok coach it may turn out to have been the only time when the opposition coach was under more pressure than he. It is a nice irony, too, that White has spent the last week in the Georgian City of Bath, where England coach Andy Robinson once played his rugby.
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/ 17 November 2006
It is the stuff of nightmares and, until now, Hollywood thrillers. A huge asteroid is on a catastrophic collision course with Earth and mankind is poised to go the way of the dinosaurs. To save the day, Nasa now plans to go where only Bruce Willis has gone before.
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/ 17 November 2006
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African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma’s legal team is gearing itself up to lodge an application for a mistrial on the grounds that the state has violated legal procedure, should the National Prosecuting Authority recharge Zuma with corruption.
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/ 17 November 2006
The arrest of Glenn Agliotti on suspicion of murdering mining magnate Brett Kebble has opened perhaps the biggest can of worms in South Africa’s criminal history. The arrest could have grave implications for police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi, who famously called Agliotti "my friend, finish and <i>klaar</i>".
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/ 17 November 2006
While the world worries about an oversupply of carbon dioxide, caused by increasing emissions, in South Africa we’ve almost run out of carbon dioxide (CO2) to put into soft drinks. The national CO2 shortage has in the past four weeks affected normal production of Coca-Cola brands, and it is likely to persist right into the new year.
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/ 17 November 2006
The annual Vuka! awards harness the generosity and creative energies of the South African film industry to give a face to real-life problems, writes Janine Walker.
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/ 17 November 2006
Emerging from the bush wearing a bright yellow blouse and with a hoe in her hand, Bisatina Ayet explained that she grows food during the day in a garden near her current home, a camp for internally displaced persons in northern Uganda. At night, Ayet returns to sleep at the camp for fear of her safety. Countless communities in the north remain in a state of limbo as the peace negotiations between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Ugandan government continue.