TYCOONS AND WINE TANKS
By Linda Stafford
You've all heard of that high-maintenance creature, the trophy wife. Well, there is a bricks, mortar and machinery equivalent, the trophy winery. You find them all over the world, the creations of businessmen who have made it big and want to blow...
THE RETURN'S FOR THE EGO
By Linda Stafford
There's one problem with the no-expense-spared, state-of-the-art winery that FirstRand chairman G T Ferreira is building on the Helshoogte Pass outside Stellenbosch. And that, groans Gyles Webb, "is that the 45 000-odd cases of wine it is capable...
WORCESTER SAUCE, BLOOD AND COFFEE
By Michael Coulson
Three skilled practitioners make up Karen McKerron's contribution to the Standard Bank Watercolour Festival. Berry and Kerr mainly produce still lifes, but their styles differ fundamentally. Kerr's work is delicate and high...
LITERATURE AND FREEDOM
By Patrick Laurence
by Nadine Gordimer (David Philip, 244pp, R160) Nadine Gordimer is, of course, best known for her novels and short stories, having won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. But her writing skills do not stop there: she is a pr...
SACKING THE CARETAKER
By David Williams
As one SA sport licks its wounds (cricket), another prepares for a new campaign (rugby) and the third (soccer) lives in more hope than conviction that we will be awarded the 2006 World Cup. Pervading them all is a strange sense of lost i...
HANDELIAN MAGIC
By Stanley Peskin
Handel's Alcina, third of the Ariosto trilogy and first performed in 1735, was popular for five years before unaccountably disappearing from the stage. It was revived more than 200 years later, notably for Joan Sutherland in a "sensitive...
LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU
Rob Collins has been keeping a few people waiting lately. Tsogo Sun, the gaming partnership between Southern Sun, empowerment group Tsogo Investments and international casino operator MGM Grand, had to wait several months for him to take up the...
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