Arts Alive Festival manager Roshnie Moonsammy hits out at freeloaders who badger festival staff Remember – throughout the years of the cultural boycott, South Africans missed out on seeing their favourite artists. One such artist was Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Many loved him and respected his political commitment to eradicating racism and poverty in Nigeria, and […]
On the eve of the Pride Parade, Charl Blignaut attended the country’s premiere black drag pageant You’d never tell from the outside that Monyaka by Nite is the sort of nightclub given to displaying a galaxy of star- shaped refracting mirrors across the ceiling above its dance floor. >From outside, you’d never even tell it’s […]
A fence too flimsy to surround a northern suburbs home and one policeman to patrol more than 50km. This is the border between South Africa and Mozambique. Paul Kirk reports Nearly every morning Sergeant Chris van der Heever jumps into his 4×4 bakkie and drives alongside the 0,9m high fence that separates South Africa from […]
Millions of rands have been poured into an experimental abalone ranching project at Port Nolloth on the west coast.
Larry Elliott The International Monetary Fund (IMF)is confused. That’s a surprise in itself, because the IMF thrives on certainty, with firm views about everything, even if most of them are wrong. Stuck away in its half-yearly document, the world economic outlook, the IMF has a section called “Macro-economic stability and the forces of globalisation: lessons […]
More than one million people work in craft-related industries, but the government has yet to come up with financial support for this important sector.
John Sutherland The shortlist is out and Booker moves into its middle game. Between now and October 25 the final contenders will – on past evidence – enjoy a month in the sun. Bookshops will display and discount the lucky six. Readers will scoop them up. Unfriendly newspapers will excoriate the list as the “most […]
their own Struan Douglas Once, there was an old American street busker who used to play loose jazz grooves. Some kid asked him, “Hey, what’s this cool music you’re playing?” “Juss music”, the old man replied in a rich American drawl. “Oh, jazz music!” said the kid – and the name was born, for a […]
Securing the World Wide Web is a never- ending battle – and the good guys seem to be losing. David le Page reports Imagine stealing R5 from every credit card holder of a major South African bank. Well, you’re too late. Someone’s already done it, according to an informed source. The tactic was ingenious – […]
Could international aid be keeping Angola’s 25-year civil war going, asks Mercedes Sayagues in Malange Long lines of peasants, trucks loaded with maize bags: the Red Cross food aid distribution in the outskirts of Huambo is well organised. As it was last year. And the year before. As it has been for the past 20 […]