FRIDAY, 3.30PM SOUTH Africa on Friday motivated for a strictly controlled legal trade in rhino horn and other products, arguing that this will reduce illegal activities. Addressing the 10th conference in Harare, Zimbabwe, of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, Natal Parks Board CEO Dr George Hughes argued that the availability of a […]
Bongani Ndodana BRIGHTLY COLOURED tights and tutus worn by children grinning like Cheshire cats seem almost surreal in the dusty streets and squalor of the Cape Flats, where the Cape Town City Ballet (CTCB) have established their Dance for All project. It’s at moments like these that one truly realises the original meaning of those […]
Although the youths of today are receiving an education, they are now battling to find job opportunities. Stuart Hess reports MORE than 40% of young South Africans are neither employed nor in school, according to a study conducted by the National Youth Commission. This alarming figure, which applies to young people aged 14 to 35, […]
Defiant Zanu-PF MPs are refusing to toe the party line, putting the president’s position in jeopardy, reports Francis Murape from Harare ZIMBABWE’S ruling Zanu-PF party faces a growing anti-corruption rebellion from within its parliamentary ranks in the biggest challenge in President Robert Mugabe’s 17 years of uninterrupted rule. The Parliament, dominated 147 to 3 by […]
Amid all Cosatu’s and business’s bluster lies a danger that the central tenet of Gear – job creation – will be ignored, writes Madeleine Wackernagel BUSINESS has until Monday to respond to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), which threatened continued mass action unless business accedes to its demands over the Basic Conditions […]
Sarah Boseley in London PRE-MENSTRUAL syndrome (PMS), often blamed for turning women into murderers and arsonists, is all in the mind, according to new research from Australia. Psychologists monitored women who said they had PMS, together with two control groups – women who did not claim to suffer and men. They found all three groups […]
JULIE BARKER enjoyed the vibrance and variety of the performers at the FNB Vita Community Theatre Festival THIS year saw the seventh FNB Vita Market Theatre Lab Community Theatre Festival bursting at the seams. At the opening ceremony, the FNB general manager of group communications said that the pursuit and promotion of excellence within the […]
Why do Pedi men wear Scottish kilts in their traditional dress? MARIAMcCLOY listens to some tall stories THE Lesedi Cultural Village in the Magaliesberg offers an expensive and contrived African experience. Visitors can “sing, dance and taste traditional Africa”. This includes them getting to see a group of Pedi, Zulu, Mosotho and Xhosa. They can […]
Robin McKie in London SCIENTISTS are developing the ultimate in designer genes: genetically engineered plants that produce naturally blue cotton. The aim is to make denims that can be manufactured without dyeing. The blue-gene project, created by United States chemical giant Monsanto, reveals the flourishing power of crop geneticists. Last year, this resulted in a […]
Shaun de Waal BORN IN THE RSA: FOUR WORKSHOPPED PLAYS by Barney Simon (Witwatersrand University Press, R39,95) LIKE Joan Littlewood, with whom he worked, and Athol Fugard, to whom he was close, Barney Simon made theatre out of a process of bringing real life as directly as possible to the stage. Simon’s actor-collaborators would be […]