JAZZ: Gwen Ansell FANS talking about their favourite jazzman often have trouble delinking the player from his tunes – Masekela and Stimela are an obvious example. With McCoy Mrubata, it’s different. What the fans talk about is the way the reedman plays and the way he relates to his audience. Mrubata has been busy this […]
Mungo Soggot THE Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs, Penuell Maduna, flouted basic legal rights in axing a top state official, Judge Edwin Cameron has ruled. Overturning Maduna’s decision to fire Gerhard Bindeman, chief executive of the Diamond Board since 1989, Judge Cameron found the minister had violated the Constitution and Bindeman’s employment conditions. Maduna […]
Chris Oppermann THE Transvaal attorney general’s office has made a major breakthrough in the case against Dr Wouter Basson, leader of the former South African Defence Force’s (SADF) chemical warfare project. Dr Johan Koekemoer, former research manager at the covert SADF factory, Delta-G Scientific, has turned state witness and will give evidence against Basson. This […]
David Harrison THIRTY-FIVE thousand Ugandans from the Kibale forest region had not heard of the 1992 Earth Summit when they were evicted by police and soldiers clearing the area for a European Union-funded project to protect the forest and encourage tourism. Local people who resisted were shot or burnt alive in their homes, women were […]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Charl Blignaut IN an essay titled “Avoiding the Event”, Western Cape academic Jane Taylor writes briefly about the steady shift from political content to personal introspection that has come to signify much of the exhibited photography of South Africa in the 1990s. The essay serves as a preface in a catalogue for a show […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: ATHLETICS South Africa has announced the names of the athletes who will travel to Athens in August to compete in the world championships, and high-jumper Hestrie Storbeck has been included in the list. Storbeck failed to make the Athens qualifying height by one centimeter at various attempts in the past three months — […]
HAZEL FRIEDMAN meets Santu Mofokeng, whose work is Chasing Shadows THE myth of Sisyphus is the story of a man who so angered the gods that he was condemned to rolling a stone up a mountain for the rest of his life. Each time he reached the summit, the stone would roll back to the […]
FRIDAY, 2.30PM THE South African government will officially raise Thursday’s arrest of Congo opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi with President Laurent Kabila, as part of its efforst to assist in the country’s road to democracy, Presidential aide Parks Mankahlana said on Friday. “There’s no reason to be hysterical about this incident,” Mankahlana said. Meanwhile, the National […]
High stakes in Las Vegas: Fear of becoming a washed-up demon will fuel Iron Mike’s ogre instincts in his revenge fight with Holyfield BOXING:Kevin Mitchell IN a famous American fight restaurant called Wolfie’s many years ago, Kingfish Levinsky, old and sad, turned to a brother in arms, Muhammad Ali, young and proud, and uttered in […]
FRIDAY, 4.00PM THE Atomic Energy Corporation’s nuclear waste storage facility at Vaalputs in the Northern Cape has leaked radioactivity following the appearance of hairline cracks in concrete blocks containing spent fuel from the Koeberg nuclear reactor outside Cape Town. AEC head of nuclear waste management Brian Hamilton-Jones attributed the cracks to unusually cold and wet […]