If HIV/Aids infection continues at its current rate, the gap in the productive workforce could be devastating. Aaron Nicodemus reports For a country like South Africa, the worst part about Aids is who it kills. Unlike the bubonic plague that devastated Europe centuries ago, Aids does not prey upon the weak, the old and the […]
Cameron Duodu:LETTER FROM THE NORTH `This is not my house!” the little boy shrieked. By one of those magical interconnections that our brains are capable of, I immediately realised what had happened. My five-year-old kid had been collected by someone else from his school, and another kid brought to mine. A thousand scenarios, each riddled […]
Theatre:Alex Dodd What’s the point in writing a play about racial prejudice in contemporary South Africa, about the failings of the rainbow nation project and then presenting it to an almost completely white audience? A bit like attempting to tango solo. This is what must have been stumping ad man John Hunt when he first […]
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Richard O Boyer travelled extensively with the great bandleader and his orchestra in the early Forties. Here he captures the spirit of the time It was on a day coach, rolling through the Ohio and Pennsylvania night that Duke Ellington wrote most of New World A-Coming, a symphonic work which had its premiere at Carnegie […]
Xolela Mangcu:CROSSFIRE The political transformation of the past 10 years will no doubt go down in history as one of the most important events of the millennium – on par with the French, American, Indian, Chinese, and Russian revolutions. Some of our leading scholars have taken to talking about the “maturing” and “consolidation” of our […]
Until recently, the common fantasy of what sex would be like in the future borrowed from the spoof sci-fi movies of the 1960s. It would be solitary, robotic, it would probably involve a booth – Woody Allen’s orgasmatron springs to mind. These days, now we are closer to the future, technology’s impact on sex conjures […]
than many people think Telford Vice Cricket The fate of the Titanic may be the major single reason 1912 sticks in the minds of many who would otherwise have no cause to hang on to the events of 87 years ago. But another, almost as damp saga played out in the same year was the […]
The houses built for 680 000 families are the most tangible signs of change, writes Ferial Haffajee If there is one thing that has marked the landscape of delivery, it’s the HOP-huise. That’s the Afrikaans term for the houses built under the auspices of the Reconstruction and Development Programme (in Afrikaans, that’s the Heropbou en […]
David le Page Many would guess that the cheapest way to stop is to go cold turkey overnight. But in all but a rare few cases this approach is likely to take its toll in discarded friends left with their heads chewed off, kilograms gained and expanded grocery bills, chewed nails and kicked dogs. Some […]