Joe Seremane, whose brother was killed by the ANC in the infamous Quatro camp, is determined to discover the truth behind his murder. Peta Thornycroft reports AN African National Congress leader accused of torturing the brother of chief land claims commissioner Joe Seremane in the infamous Quatro detention camp has been identified as Gabriel Mthunzi […]
Jungle music is finally gaining the recognition it deserves in South Africa. GREG BOWES looks at some of the places and faces it’s touched JO’BURG’S hippest live music venue, 206, jumps to the voodoo beats every Tuesday night. The city’s trendiest nightclub, Krypton, has also been doing its bit for new dance culture on Wednesdays. […]
Grandad is in jail but his boys are still on the terraces in a country which sponsors football hooliganism SOCCER:Amaranta Wright ON a Sunday in the football season the Buenos Aires stadium of the Boca Juniors Club is heaving, but for an empty strip behind the goal, reserved as usual. Suddenly, tearing through the pre-match […]
I, Goitseone Gordon Moshoeu, generally known in the African National Congress as Godfrey Pule and particularly known amongst members of the MK June 16 Detachment as Grenade, hereby wishes to give an account of the terrible plight that befell Timothy “Chief” Seremane, popularly known as Mahamba amongst both the ANC in general and specifically MK. […]
The self-proclaimed chief of the Hancumqua is proud of his heritage, but some doubt his authenticity, writes Gaye Davis A BAND of cheetah skin around his neck, faux leopard-skin tails dangling from his headband, Chief Joe Little strikes a pose next to a reed hut erected in the cobbled courtyard of Cape Town’s South African […]
The discovery of radioactive scrap metal in the Free State could be a sign of widespread contamination, writes Ferial Haffajee RADIOACTIVE contamination way above international safety limits has been uncovered in the heart of the Free State’s gold fields. The Council for Nuclear Safety (CNS) said this week it had detected high levels of radiation […]
assassinations? Ferial Haffajee A COURT case in the Thabazimbi Magistrate’s Court on Friday could hold the key to a spate of mysterious assassinations at Anglo American’s Amplats platinum mines in the North-West and Northern provinces. Twenty-two suspects arrested in the past fortnight at Amplats’ Amandelbult mine in the Northern Province will apply for bail. They […]
Hazel Friedman ‘I FIRST encountered Phillip Hunt’s ”blobs” in a group exhibition – Intimations of Millennium held at Newtown Galleries in 1995. Even then, they were extraordinary. Thick, tactile tar-like paint sploshes and spillages that invited visceral responses like licking or scratching … They featured in works consisting of photographic emulsions of sculpted classical deities, […]
FRIDAY, 2.30PM SEVERAL thousand marchers gathered outside the gates of Parliament shortly before noon on Friday to present a memorandum to an official of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s office. The protesters, all members of public servants’ sector unions affiliated to the Congress of SA Trade Unions, marched peacefully to Parliament through the streets of Cape […]
THURSDAY, 4.00PM ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe reshuffled his cabinet on Wednesday, merging eight ministries into four, creating a new one and appointing three ministers of state and two deputies. The ministry of local government, rural and urban development has been merged with public construction and national housing to become the ministry of local government and […]