Rehana Rossouw and Gustav Thiel FEARS are growing within the African National Congress that the National Party is planning a reshuffle to wipe out the ANC’s only representation in the Western Cape provincial Cabinet. Health and Welfare MEC Ebrahim Rasool and Economic Affairs MEC Chris Nissen’s positions have been tipped for change after the provincial […]
HAZEL FRIEDMAN on artists who will be hitting the big time in 1997 SOUTH AFRICAN artists might be composing their own soulful soundtrack to the film To Forget Venice. But 1997 is far from being labelled “The Year of Being Grounded” for South African art. From the beginning of May, thanks to the efforts of […]
Wole Soyinka has been charged with treason by the Nigerian government. From his US exile, the Nobel laureate pours scorn on the accusations WHEN I wrote in my latest book, The Open Sore of the Continent, that “the judicial murder of the Ogoni nine and the continued decimation of Ogoni people was the first Nigerian […]
DANCE ON CD: Greg Bowes JUNGLE music, currently more fashionably known as drum’n’bass, a style born in the United Kingdom of the remnants of hardcore rave, dub reggae and jazz, has yet to achieve the mainstream success so eagerly predicted. This is particularly true in South Africa where support for its broken beats and booming […]
Marion Edmunds THE Home Affairs Department has raked in more than R14-million since its decision last July to begin charging foreigners for their entry documents. The department introduced the fees for applications for permanent residents, work, study, holiday and business permits and transit visas last year, arguing that it needed to cover processing costs and […]
Hazel Friedman A COMMUNICATION breakdown between artists and the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology has resulted in South African artists losing a place at one of the world’s most prestigious art exhibitions. Organisers for the Venice Biennale said this week they were still waiting for the department to indicate how many South African […]
ONE of South Africa’s leading political commentators, Phillip van Niekerk, has been appointed editor of the Mail & Guardian. Van Niekerk (40) has been South Africa correspondent of some of the world’s most famous newspapers including The Observer, The Boston Globe, the Toronto Globe and Mail and Volkskrant. A graduate of Stellenbosch University, he was […]
WORLD MUSIC:Gwen Ansell ASK Madam and (without Eve to prompt her) she may just have heard of Masekela, or foxtrotted to the African Jazz Pioneers at a banquet. But ask the kids in any Jo’burg suburb and – if they’ve listened to jazz at all – a name they’re likely to come up with is […]
child Gustav Thiel `MAN, I want to be a soccer hero one day,” says Richard. “What I’m doing now is not so bad. It won’t last forever.” Richard is 13. He speaks softly, and fiddles with his baseball cap. It’s 1.30 on a Sunday morning, near Cape Town’s Waterfront. As he talks a steady stream […]
South African scientists are discovering that traditional communities are rich in technology, writes Lesley Cowling THERE is a toad in the Northern Province that is considered a delicacy among local people. It is harvested from its natural habitat, has its innards removed and is braaied over coals to provide a gourmet treat for the lucky […]