Friday

Ruth First remembered 40 years after her death

melody emmett 17 Aug 2022

It is 40 years since Ruth First was assassinated. What would she say about South Africa today?

Glamping entrepreneur’s pitch gains global recognition

sonri naidoo 17 Aug 2022

Remembering Magesh, a kwaito star who was ahead of his time

shingai darangwa 16 Aug 2022

The Opera Virgin attends ‘The Marriage of Figaro’

the opera virgin 15 Aug 2022

How the digital age has changed the existence of big record labels

Tshegofatso Mathe 15 Aug 2022

Jump for joy

Staff Reporter - 23 Aug 2001

Jazz at the Grahamstown festival might have been a pedestrian affair, but Gwen Ansell predicts, the Joy of Jazz festival will be anything but.

Essex everyman

Staff Reporter - 23 Aug 2001

He's a working-class hero, a caring single father, a bestselling author ... Oh, and he's charming too. Is Tony Parsons for real? Libby Brooks finds out.

Africa on the stage

Staff Reporter - 23 Aug 2001

Review: African Theatre: Playwrights AND Politics edited by Martin Banham, James Gibbs and Femi Osofisan (James Currey/Indiana University Press/Witwatersrand University Press), by Rob Amato.

Filmmakers address pressing issues

Staff Reporter - 23 Aug 2001

More than 70 representatives of the South African film industry attended a seminar by the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) in Johannesburg last week to iron out problems plaguing the trade, reports Andrew Worsdale.

Ways of escape

Staff Reporter - 23 Aug 2001

Review: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (Fourth Estate) By Lexy Bloom.

Bonita Alice on her own turf

Kathryn Smith - 22 Aug 2001

In her new exhibition the sculptor takes a journey in plastic back to her own roots, writes Kathryn Smith.

The stuff of dreams

Staff Reporter - 20 Aug 2001

From homemade meals to Chinese fare, the phrase food for the soul has taken on a literal meaning in the Cape Town suburb of Observatory, writes Sean O'Connor.

Performing to a new tune

Staff Reporter - 20 Aug 2001

Stereophonics: Just Enough Education to Perform

Music for the mediocre masses

Maddy Costa - 20 Aug 2001

If music weren't important, none of this would matter. A Travis album wouldn't be something to tie yourself up into knots over, pondering such vital questions as, what do we want from our pop stars? Attitude, glamour, volatile druggies whom we watch from afar, fascinated, appalled, enraptured? No thanks.

Oppikoppi still spot on

Staff Reporter - 17 Aug 2001

Six stages operated most of the day and night to accommodate bands and musicians from many genres â€” rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, folk, blues, punk, breakbeat, jungle and drum'n'bass, to name a few, writes Riaan Wolmarans.

Laying the skeletons to rest

Staff Reporter - 17 Aug 2001

Tricky has moved on from dark paranoia to wised-up positivity, writes Dave Simpson.

Days of thunder

Shaun De Waal & Staff Reporter - 17 Aug 2001

By comparison with that other recent historical (melo)drama Thirteen Days is scrupulously accurate and commendably intelligent, conveying very well the almost claustrophobic urgency of the situation, writes Shaun de Waal.

Bringing Zen to the Zulus

Staff Reporter - 17 Aug 2001

Promising Eastern and African culture combining in a mix of art, fashion and lifestyle, ZuluSushi has a short run at the new Millennium II gallery, writes Kathryn Smith

With many voices

Staff Reporter - 16 Aug 2001

Chris Dunton speaks with Sello Duiker about his second novel, The Quiet Violence of Dreams.

Doctor of a dying culture

Staff Reporter - 15 Aug 2001

Sello Galane has been credited with breathing new life into a form of traditional Pedi music, writes Noko Mashilo.

Dispatches from Alibia

Staff Reporter - 15 Aug 2001

Ken Barris reviews The Restless Supermarket by Ivan VladislaviÂ´c (David Philip).

Being Bridget Jones

Libby Brooks - 14 Aug 2001

Renée Zellweger has done the unthinkable â€” shown her cellulite on screen. Libby Brooks meets the star of Bridget Jones's Diary.

An act of will

Staff Reporter - 14 Aug 2001

Nigerian Helon Habila has just won the Caine Prize for a short story. As he tells Jason Cowley, he wrote it by candlelight.

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