Anton Marshall : In your ear Tuesday October 14 saw the launch of Cape Talk Radio, intended to be hard-hitting, topical talk radio. The line-up draws from the cream of South African print and radio, featuring a celebrated variety of media personalities like John Maytham, Martin Jordison and Lisa Chait, and others. Chait and Jordison […]

Janet Jackson has a new CD out, reports Michael Odell Since Oprah Winfrey, and after Sinad O’Connor, Sting and Michael Stipe, superstardom is more than ever about public dysfunction. We used to require our pop stars to be healthier, wealthier and wiser than us. Now we want to know what keeps them awake in their […]

THURSDAY, 11.00AM: IMPORTS rose 3,6% from August to September, and exports were down 4%, latest customs and excise figures reveal. The rise in imports has been attributed to oil imports which had been excluded from the August figures and lumped into the September figure; the decline in exports has been attributed to disappointing gems and […]

The award-winning Masithandane group is selling ‘Ciskei daisies’ at world trade fairs, writes Vukile Sonandzi With an eye on the environmental catwalk, the women of Grahamstown’s award-winning Masithandane Association are turning ubiquitous ”Ciskei daisies” into fashion accessories that are going down well abroad. The women have taken it upon themselves to wage a personal war […]

THURSDAY, 4.30PM VICTIMS of apartheid human rights violations and their families can look forward to the prospect of financial compensation for their pains with the release on Thursday of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s policy on reparations. If the recommendations are approved, each of an estimated 22 000 victims will receive a grant of between […]

WEDNESDAY, 3.30PM THE Cape High Court on Wednesday found Jan van der Westhuizen, Clifton Barnard and Abraham Myburgh guilty on four counts of murder, two of attempted murder, three counts of sabotage, and various other counts of illegal possession of explosives and firearms. The convictions relate to the Christmas Eve 1996 bomb blast at a […]

WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: The long-awaited World Golf Tour is likely to become a reality when the commissioners of the world’s big five — US, Europe, Japan, Australia and South African tours — meet in Houston, Texas on October 29 to finalise arrangements. The South African PGA Tour commissioner Arnold Mentz, who leaves for the US on […]

WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: FREE State lock Braam Els, who injured his shoulder in the semi-final match against Natal at the weekend, trained with the rest of the squad on Tuesday night and is likely to be be in the starting line-up for the Bankfin Currie Cup final against Western Province at Newlands on Saturday. Free State […]

WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: FORMER Pakistani Test opener Aamir Sohail has been included in the 13-man Pakistani squad to do duty in the third Test against South Africa at Faisalabad on Friday. PAKISTANI SQUAD: Saeed Anwar (captain), Ali Naqvi, Aamir Sohail, Ejaz Ahmed, Muhammad Wasseem, Inzamam-ul Haq, Moin Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Azhar Mahmood, Mushtaq Ahmed, […]

WEDNESDAY, 4.00PM MORE than 700 of Johannesburg’s street vendors took to the streets on Wednesday to demand government action to halt the influx of foreigners, whom they blame for crime the decline in trade. Amid chants in Zulu of “Chase the Kwere Kwere out” and “Down with the foreigner, up with the South Africans,” the […]