BRIGHT EYES, BUSHY TAILS
By Linda Stafford
Port Elizabeth entrepreneur Adrian Gardiner is probably a little twitchy about 16 000 ha Kwandwe, the newest upmarket private game reserve in the CC Africa stable. And who can blame him? It's almost 10 years since he launched the first,...
ON AN ISLAND FAR AWAY
By Peter Wilhelm
directed by John Madden Captain Corelli is an Italian soldier and romantic who, with his German counterpart, occupies the small but lush Greek island of Cephalonia in World War 2. I have not read the celebrated novel by Louis de B...
X MARKS THE SPOT
By David Furlonger
Nissan is taking offroad vehicle design to extremes. Its latest 4x4, the X-Trail, was launched in SA this week. The X refers to the modern trend for adventurous, or X-treme, sports. Nissan, though, describes X-Trail as a "crossover" vehicle,...
RISK AND REST IN BALANCE
It's one of those drop-dead gorgeous Cape Town days, after months of driving rain. And I'm off to meet BoE Asset Management MD Anet Ahern at the Camps Bay Primi Piatti, one of my favourite destinations for lazy Saturday-morning breakfasts. Life...
COATS AND OLD CARPETS
By Neil Pendock
One of the most inspired Monty Python sketches involved a Hungarian phrase book that translated innocuous inquiries such as "Where is the station?" as "May I fondle your buttocks?" Antoine Billecart The dangers of mistranslation of French into E...
FROM PARIS TO A PUB
By Michael Coulson
Booyens' exhibition is in part her MA (FA) submission and in part the fruits of a spell in Paris, at the Cité; both influences are apparent. In particular, I bet she studied Matisse and the Fauves and was inspired by their use of colour. ==ri1...
ENGLISH LESSONS
By David Williams
Can the Springboks beat England next week? It doesn't look like it, after our 20-10 defeat by France and England's 21-15 strangulation of Australia. But at least we will be underdogs at Twickenham. Springbok rugby has a culture of responding we...
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