CD of the week Okay, Orbital have sampled Dollar on In the Middle of Nowhere (ffrr). It shows an admirable open-mindedness, if you ask me. Not that you’d expect anything less. My favourite Orbital moment is when they whack the chorus of Belinda Carlisle’s Heaven Is a Place on Earth through the speakers at their […]

Marianne Merten This is not the first time that the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and police intelligence services have been linked to the string of explosions – with the last two high-profile restaurant bombings, 576 blasts – that have rocked the Cape since 1996: l In October the Mail & Guardian revealed that NIA informer […]

Marianne Merten ‘The Party Is On!” billboards proclaim along Cape Town’s main thoroughfares with just 21 days to go before the new millennium. It has not been an easy path for the Mother City. After announcing plans for the mother of all parties at the start of this year, it all seemed to collapse when […]

campaign Marianne Merten and Ivor Powell Deon Mostert, the man arrested this week in connection with the recent Cape Town bombings, asked police informers to help carry out the bombings, according to police intelligence documents. The documents say that Mostert told the police informers he had protection from three senior police officers tasked with investigating […]

Humour is subtly present in most of Carl Becker’s works currently on show at the Karen McKerron Gallery, writes Alex Dodd There’s nothing like taking a look at something familiar from a different angle. A mere change of vantage point can entirely reinvent a thing to which you’ve grown innured. New life. It’s simply not […]

Ann Eveleth The European Union Foundation for Human Rights will continue to fund civil society projects, legal advice offices and precedent-setting legal cases until September 2003 in terms of a recent “in principle” agreement between the EU and the South African government, EU ambassador Michael Laidler said this week. The foundation recently secured R33- million […]

Local documentaries are getting more creative, more reflective – the days of talking heads are over, writes Andrew Worsdale Post-1976 the surge of mass opposition to the state in South Africa led to the establishment of setups like the Community Video Resource Association and a Super- Eight co-op under the Community Arts Project in Cape […]

Marianne Merten Minister of Justice and Constitutional Planning Penuell Maduna failed to consult the country’s most senior judge, Chief Justice Ismail Mahomed, when he sought to extend the tenure of Judge Edwin King, the judge president of the Cape. This emerged during a week of controversy surrounding Maduna’s decision to extend Judge King’s tenure – […]

Struan Douglas In the beginning there was sound. Sound was supreme – bringing people together and allowing them to journey within a deep meditation. Sound was the unifier – the inter-relator and the inter- connector. Yet, the true language of sound was no sound. It was something you could not hear, but only intuit. And […]

Riaan Wolmarans Just about every Gauteng venue with a bar and more than two chairs seems to be planning something big, usually with DJs and the inevitable fireworks. The biggest outdoor bash will definitely be the African Renaissance Millennium Party at the Union Buildings. Performances by top artists Ringo Madlingozi, Dorothy Masuku and Mahube, Boom […]