A war’s being waged in Durban, writes Alex Sudheim of the Battle of the Bands Having witnessed the unspooling drama of Durban’s seminal Battle of the Bands from the various perspectives of contender, manager, spectator, judge and now journalist, I must say the view from each hill is remarkably different. As contender I got pissed […]

Behind the beautiful, graceful film installations that won this year’s Turner Prize, hides an unassuming, bear-likeman. And, surprise, surprise, he hates talking about his art. Sabine Durrant reports To reach Steve McQueen’s Turner Prize- winning entries at the Tate, you have to walk through the rest of the shortlist first. Past Tracy Emin’s bed, onlookers […]

Jubie Matlou Once a fortnight, Godfrey Debeila leads a delegation of the national executive of the Unemployed Masses of South Africa (Umsa) to the Democratic Party’s offices in the Gauteng legislature. The purpose is to meet DP MP Richard Pillay, who also serves as Umsa’s policy adviser and patron, to discuss Umsa’s projects, progress and […]

Barry Streek MPs will now get a basic salary package of R274 800 a year or R22 900 a month but their increases, published in the latest Government Gazette, come to a modest 4%. Members of the National Assembly and the permanent members of the National Council of Provinces do get other perks – including, […]

Guy Willoughby Review of the week Reviewers like to begin notices of Not the Midnight Mass by reminiscing about the first time they caught their act (except in Cape Town – Cape Town reviewers, like Cape Town police, rarely catch anything). I’ll quickly observe, then, that I first saw the famous a cappella foursome from […]

The Bushbuckridge Nature Reserve is being plundered while politicians squabble over who it belongs to, and who will take responsibility for it, reports Fiona Macleod Armed syndicates are pillaging truckloads of rare indigenous trees from a 7E000ha game reserve on the border between Mpumalanga and Northern Province while politicians and conservation authorities squabble about who […]

THE African Super Cup match between hosts Raja Casablanca of Morocco and Africa Sports of Cote d’Ivoire has been rescheduled for the weekend of March 4-5, the organisers announced on Friday. The annual fixture between the winners of the Champions League and the Cup Winners Cup was planned for January 15 or 16, but these […]

MICHAEL FINCH, Alice | Thursday 7.00pm. DARREN Maddy boosted his test hopes as he scored a match winning 133 to help England beat an Eastern Province/Border Invitation XI by 153 runs on Thursday. England scored an impressive 309 for eight off their 50 overs as Maddy plundered his runs off just 116 balls with 11 […]

TASMIN Toubitt, the girlfriend of Springbok fullback Percy Montgomery, could face criminal charges after she broke into the home of her late ex-husband and removed a number of his possessions, The Star reported on Thursday. Toubitt, allegedly assisted by Montgomery, also removed her former husband’s car illegally from the car park at Cape Town International […]