Alex Sudheim Bargo, 15 Mitchell Crescent, Greyville racecourse. Durban’s nattiest nightclub provides a seamless combination of live music and clubstyle DJ action this week, kicking off on Thursday April 26 with a concert featuring, for the first time in Durban, Cape Town electronica legends Moodphase 5ive, Krushed & Sorted, Felix Laband and DJ Honey B. […]
Alex Sudheim Art Engine Studio, Lost World nursery, Ramsgate. This exciting new art space on the South Coast of KwaZuluNatal opens its inaugural exhibition on Friday April 27. The Children’s Story is a remarkable and inspiring exhibition of 100 images created by children in the ghetto of Terezin in World War II Prague. Appropriately opening […]
While England run free, Romania struggle against all odds to keep rugby alive Eddie Butler The last time I saw Florica Murariu was one lunchtime in Bucharest. He was on television. Not that he was doing anything. One of the finest forwards of his generation, one of the key players in the Romanian side that […]
The institution won’t adopt the World Commission on Dams’s guidelines on resettlement and indigenous peoples David Le Page What appears to be a small, undeclared spat between the World Commission on Dams (WCD) and the World Bank could dramatically affect the future of millions of people. The World Bank is backing down from fully adopting […]
Marianne Merten Since 1996 several wine estates have introduced black empowerment by, for example, allocating shares to farm workers. But research has found these schemes often flounder because the newly empowered workers lack business skills. Another key shortfall is?the lack of visible shortterm benefits for weekly wage earners who have?to wait for a return on […]
Michelle Matthews 8Tease Fever, Eikestad mall, Stellenbosch. On April 30 (yes, there’s another public holiday on Tuesday) Nick E Louder, Richard Carter, Carsens and Dexter club each other with their DJ bags over who plays the best commercial dance music Cape Town or Stellenbosch? Ringside seats cost R20. Adrenalin, 38 Neptune Street, Paarden Island. There […]
Michelle Matthews Alliance Franaise, 155 Loop Street. Steve Daly, a twotime Emmy Awardwinning documentary producer for CNN, presents images from Nepal and Tibet. Until April 31. Tel: 423 5699. Arts Association of Bellville, Library Centre, Carel van Aswegen Street, Bellville. Cristina Bryer holds a ceramics exhibition, called Sacred Geometry, in the Vestibule Gallery. The association […]
Sergeant at the Bar Why is Cheryl Loots (an associate professor in the School of Law at Wits University) arguably one of the two most influential academic lawyers around? The answer is simple. She advises the Ministry of Justice and is the chief architect of the draft Legal Practice Bill. This is the Bill that […]
Did Rudolf Straeuli make a mistake by fielding his B team against the Reds last week? Andy Capostagno Two years ago, when Alan Solomons picked a Stormers B team to play against the Highlanders in Dunedin there was an outcry. The whole point of the Super 12, screamed Solly’s critics, was that it pitted strength […]
Barry Streek and Paul Kirk The Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete says more than 152 000 rapes and attempted rapes in South Africa were reported to the police in the three years between 1997 and 1999 almost 140 a day. Most reported rapes and attempted rapes per province took place in Gauteng, 36 […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION Craig Matthews’s excellent documentary Of Ochre andWater:Himba Chronicles from the Land of Kaoko, was about the threat to the cultural, religious and social traditions, the very substance, of Namibia’s Himba people by the proposed construction of a vast dam on the Kunene river. Ergo, hydroelectricity for Windhoek. Matthews says that his involvement […]
Khadija Magardie The legal profession, particularly its upper echelons, continues to be dominated by white men, says a recent report by the influential Johannesburg-based think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS). The report critically evaluates several areas within the justice sector in need of reform with particular focus on obstacles facing the implementation of the […]
The United States has put South Africa on a list of the worst infringers of copyright and trademarks Paul Kirk South Africa may soon face the possibility of United States trade sanctions unless the country cleans up its act with regard to trademark and copyright violations. According to a major international body that polices trade […]
Marianne Merten ‘We dedicate our lives to peace. I’m not prepared to go back to the bush for any reason,” says Yazir Henri, who heads a self-help initiative of former liberation fighters in Cape Town. The Direct Action Centre for Peace and Memory was established last month to provide support for former combatants and their […]
Six years ago Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people when he blew up the Alfred P Murrah building in Oklahoma City. Now it is his turn to die. His namesake, Tracey McVeigh, travels to his hometown to investigate the making of the US’s greatest mass murderer On Monday Timothy James McVeigh celebrated his 33rd birthday. He […]
Kathryn Smith African Window (National Cultural History Museum), 149 Visagie Street, Pretoria. Gordon Froud’s Plastic by Nature, a sculptural installation of objects constructed from plastic cutlery and crockery, is currently on view. Ends May 26. Also on view are paintings and drawings of the Namibian landscape by Beeuven Gerrytz. Ends April 29. Pierneef: Master of […]
A 29-year-old woman who allegedly shot her abusive husband, once a member of the SA Defence Force’s notorious Koevoet counter insurgency unit, will have to wait until June to find out whether a Namibian court believes she is guilty of murder, the Namibian Press Agency reported on Tuesday. Estelle Elmare Gray, of Henties Bay, is […]
Steven Friedman worm’s eye view If Martians ask you to take them to our leader, try Lucas Radebe. The Bafana captain is a more plausible source of national leadership than any of our politicians. Our lack of leadership is of some importance. We have descended into the politics of meanness, of bad-tempered bickering as we […]
James Hall In traditional Swazi culture, when death or illness strike, a supernatural cause is suspected. A physical condition may be the agent of destruction, but it is set in motion by malignant people, invariably using witchcraft. When a Swazi king falls ill, those who are in close proximity to him, from palace staff to […]
Pule waga Mabe Some South African politicians backed this week’s controversial Civil Society Initiative (CSI) conference, despite the call by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and other civil society formations for a boycott. Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota was among those invited to speak who didn’t show up. But among those who […]
Robert Colman Lifestyle Two homegrown enterprises and a French import have brought fresh life to the Johannesburg suburb of Troyeville. If you aren’t a local it’s well worth crossing the northern suburbs curtain to try them. First stop is the Spaza Art Gallery. Artist Andrew Lindsay has gathered a rich network of young talent from […]
Enjoyment of wine can be increased by just a bit of knowledge, says accountantturnedwine seller Vaughan Johnson Marianne Merten Cape wines, Cuban cigars and dinky brandy bottles shaped like Table Mountain are proving an irresistible mix at Vaughan Johnson’s shop, together with its?friendly service and expert advice. For more than 10 years the shop at […]
Anthony Holiday a second look The Hainan Island spy-plane incident may be over but in foreign ministries, embassies and policy think-tanks the whole world over its full implications are only beginning to unravel. When the Chinese fighter pilot Wang Wei lost his life and became a national hero by colliding with a United States EP-3 […]
Short Cuts Bedazzled. Like Ally McBeal, very thin and quite funny. With Elizabeth Hurley. Billy Elliot. Marvellous tale of a workingclass boy who wants to be a ballet dancer. Bounce. Terrible romance that should have been called Boring. Starring Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Broken Hearts Club. A group of gay men negotiate that […]
Peter Robinson Lifting the Covers: The Inside Story of South African Cricket by Luke Alfred (Spearhead) Luke Alfred quit his jobs as The Star and The Sunday Independent’s senior cricket writer earlier this year a decision that may or may not have been connected with the imminent publication of this book. Whatever the case, I […]
Martin Gillingham road running It must have been difficult for Elana Meyer last Sunday as she sat in front of the television in her Stellenbosch home and watched her oldest rival win the greatest marathon in the world. The reason for Meyer’s absence from the London Marathon, or indeed its Boston equivalent six days earlier, […]
An imam from the Cape Flats has found a prison buddy in Allan Boesak Marianne Merten Prison has brought together two religious leaders a soft-spoken imam, who is accused of conspiring to murder a magistrate, and vocal liberation cleric Allan Boesak, serving time for fraud and theft. Imam Gasant Moos is detained in a cell […]
Barry Streek Five remote Richtersveld communities, whose claim for the return of land on the Cape West Coast near the Gariep river was recently rejected by the Land Claims Court, have submitted an application to appeal to the Constitutional Court. Their application says the appeal raises constitutional issues of substance on which a ruling by […]
Fiona Macleod American pro-hunting lobbies are calling in the big guns to put pressure on the Botswana government to lift a ban on hunting lions in the Southern African country. George Bush, former United States president and father of current President George W Bush, heads up a lobby group convened by Safari Club International (SCI), […]
PAUL KIRK, Durban | Thursday HUNDREDS of dud armoured vehicles bought from a major British arms supplier are being scrapped by the South African Police Service. The vehicles, called Scouts, are being taken out of service as they are not considered safe, economical, cost-effective or suitable for the purposes for which they were designed. Instead […]
I’d love to be proven wrong in my belief that Phumelela’s revamped superfecta bet will be every bit as neglected as the original. Trying to select the first six runners past the post, besides being tedious, is also dangerous, especially with the betting unit raised from 10c to R1 with a minimum 10% fractional bet […]
The Department of Finance believes the rand could sink as low as R26 to the United States dollar by 2018, after dropping to about R14,9 to the dollar by 2010. The department’s affordability study of the arms deal provides a rare insight into an official line on the future of the currency. The study, drafted […]