Adam Sweeting CD of the week Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have apparently taken umbrage at the fact that the Pearl Jam song Given to Fly vaguely resembles Led Zeppelin’s Going to California. If anybody’s going to lift chunks from the Zep catalogue, which of course bears no resemblance to the work of any bluesmen […]
Shaun de Waal What the Americans call “sell-thru” video -videos for sale -is beginning to take off in South Africa in a big way. The rampaging success of Disney titles such as The Lion King and The Little Mermaid, which appear to be addictive to children, spearheaded the influx into South Africa of an ever- […]
Gavin Evans General Lothar Neethling has not had a particularly good year; nor such a hot decade either, come to think of it. Previous allegations that he was apartheid South Africa’s poisoner-in- chief have been confirmed at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and he has emerged as a key player in the former regime’s biological […]
Alex Sudheim `After 10 minutes time you’ll forget you’re watching a screen and you’ll feel like you’re in the same room,” promises Krish Moodley of his unique new venture, the 3-D Picture Palace on Durban’s beachfront. Whether or not you actually want to be in the same room as several dozen grunting, sweating, copulating people […]
Everyone’s talking about Clinton and Monica, but you’d never know it from Britain’s apolitical comics. American stand-up Scott Capurro wonders why When I flew out of San Francisco three weeks ago, Americans were basking in the warmth of an economically glowing summer. But by the time the plane hit the tarmac in London, Monica Lewinsky […]
Matthew Krouse On stage in Johannesburg It’s not difficult to fathom why Andr the Hilarious Hypnotist is one of the biggest hits in town. Like Candid Camera and America’s Funniest Home Videos, his unselfconscious humour appeals to the lowest common denominator, showing the foibles of ordinary people in absurd situations. Andr’s spectacle parades as an […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer Au revoir France. Hello Mauritius, Gabon and Angola. As memories of the World Cup fade from the memory bank, Bafana Bafana must start preparing for another African Nations Cup campaign. No longer holders of the most prestigious football prize the continent has to offer, South Africa must go through a six-match qualification […]
the mould Carolize Jansen Women in sport Cast your mind back to the little statuettes of sports players Shell distributed last year. Can you recall how many of those statuettes were of women? To refresh your memory, just one. Of Penny Heyns. Does that mean that there is only one sportswoman of note in South […]
The bullets that pierced the body of security guard Thembinkosi Alex Bera during an early morning robbery at the Spar supermarket was an act of violence which ripped through the heart of Parkview’s close-knit community. Before Bera’s slaying, the largely liberal residents of this genteel middle-class suburb had liked to believe theirs was a virtual […]
Damian Daniels A Second Look Within days of the deadly attacks on the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, terrorism with an international dimension has escalated the levels of violence in Cape Town with the bomb attack on Planet Hollywood at the Waterfront. Months earlier a spate of pipe-bomb attacks on the homes […]