Matthew Krouse Down the tube These nights I don’t feel much pressed to go out, looking for something I can very well experience in my lounge. With music playing on television through the night, I can read my books, do my drugs, make my love and drink myself to death without interruption, to some of […]
The father of African film, Ousmane Sembene, who is in South Africa developing a new movie about the effects of colonialism on Africa, spoke to Bafana Khumalo Many an African liberation fighter has made the journey to the land of the Russians, to learn the art of shooting. So has Ousmane Sembene, the Senegalese novelist […]
Ted Leggett The state has had to release its hold on the property of alleged Milnerton drug dealer Gavin Carolus in the first test case for the civil forfeiture provisions of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act. A preservation of property order had been granted to the state to freeze the assets of Carolus, in […]
With its production of Faust, Opera Africa has taken an elitist art form back to its origins – passionate, bawdy fun. Alex Sudheim reports `When I first saw a production of Faust it was in Durban about seven years ago – when we were still part of Europe,” says Andrew Verster drily. The famous painter, […]
Michael Finch Athletics If Elana Meyer was looking for a sympathetic ear after her disappointing London Marathon performance last Sunday, she’d better not look to Gwen Griffiths. The newly crowned South African marathon champion was far from impressed by the performance of Meyer and believes the star needs a major rethink of her strategies. Meyer, […]
Wally Mbhele and Makhosini Nkosi There was stunned silence at an African National Congress national working committee meeting this week when Deputy President Thabo Mbeki announced his decision to axe both the Gauteng and Mpumalanga premiers. Gauteng Premier Mathole Motshekga was summoned to Mbeki’s Johannesburg office this week where he was told of his fate. […]
THE United Democratic Movement won its first by-election on Wednesday. The UDM’s Frederick Konstabel beat the African National Congress’s candidate by 258 votes to 148 in a by-election in Zoar in the Western Cape, UDM spokesman Dr Johna Steenkamp said on Thursday. The by-election was the third contested by the UDM. The New National Party […]
Review of the week Brenda Atkinson Much as Sigmund Freud’s theoretical and linguistic legacy to the Western world has slipped beneath the surface of a million conscious minds, Leonardo da Vinci’s mind- boggling contributions to the scientific and cultural workings of a millennial first world find us largely ignorant of their import. The long-awaited and […]
In 1835, the Xhosa King Hintsa was killed at Nqabara, near Willowvale in the Eastern Cape. The amaXhosa say that the king was treacherously cut down while escaping from a British army camp, where he had been negotiating terms of surrender after half a century of continuous war against the invading power. The British side […]
Ann Eveleth South Africa’s “other half” – the rural poor – will descend on the birthplace of the African National Congress this weekend to thrash out a new charter demanding their fair share of the economic pie. Delegates from rural communities across the country will meet at the national Rural Convention in Bloemfontein to draft […]