Rebecca Smithers Product: JUMP AHEAD BABY knowledge adventure Requirements: PC: Windows 3.1; 8Mb Ram; Mac: System 7; 8Mb Ram I was initially sceptical about introducing my daughter Mabel to the world of computers at the tender age of 12 months. But after just half-an- hour of trying out Jump Ahead Baby, she was bashing the […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby I have heard that during his heyday PW Botha was something of an enema freak. Before stressful occasions like making important speeches, blustering his way through Broederbond meetings, helicopter big-game shooting expeditions and so on, the Great Crocodile used to enjoy having a bucket of warm soapy water pumped up his […]
Alex Dodd This image, Berlin (1981) is part of a major Jurgen Schadeberg retrospective on show at the Gallery of Photography in Dublin, Ireland until the end of March. Although Schadeberg is best known for his classic black and white Drum photographs from Fifties South Africa, the images on show will expose viewers to his […]
selection With the Western Stormers announcing a B team for their match down under this weekend, Andy Capostagno ponders how other sides will react Western Stormers coach Alan Solomons seems to be reinventing the traditional rules of the game on an almost daily basis. Last year, for instance, Solomons stopped releasing teams to the press […]
sceptic’s eyes Brenda Atkinson `I do make life difficult for myself,” sighs Robyn Orlin, eyelids drooping to prove a point, her voice suggesting fatigue and inescapable hardship. Orlin is musing on her latest performance piece, commissioned by the FNB-Vita Dance Umbrella and due for launch this weekend. With just a week of rehearsals to go, […]
WORKERS at Zimbabwe’s Boka Tobacco Auction floor, which belongs to the late tycoon Roger Boka, have reportedly not been paid for two months. Several of the business empire’s bank accounts have also been compulsorily closed. Boka, once seen as the champion of black empowerment in Zimbabwe, died after a long illness last month. Workers are […]
Review of the week Peter Makurube Five Guys Named Mo is a first rate musical set in Forties America – a story of love and friendship threaded around the music of jazz great Louis Jordan. The main theatre at The Market is the perfect venue for a show of this magnitude that has thrilled countless […]
SOUTH AFRICAN voters remain highly intolerant of their political opponents, according to the latest Markinor/Idasa Opinion ’99 survey. The survey found one in four voters openly admits being ready to take action against political opponents including being prepared to block speeches, rallies and other normal political activity. Up to half of African National Congress supporters […]
EGYPTIAN actress Yusra has been acquitted of outraging public morals over a risque photograph published on the cover of a cinema magazine four years ago, court officials said on Friday.Yusra was convicted after two Islamist lawyers complained that she appeared “nearly nude” in the November 1995 cover photograph of Al-Cinema wal-Nass.Defence lawyers argued that the […]
Question: What do you do with a large brown tube-like object placed between your index finger and thumb? Answer: Don’t deny the experience ever took place – as United States President Bill Clinton did after he gave Monica Lweinsky a cigar to titillate herself with while he watched. That’s the official line from the 70-odd […]