Matthew Krouse Down the tube Television viewers will get a glimpse of last Saturday’s Avanti Awards when they air on SABC2 on Tuesday April 20 at 9.30pm. The Avantis, held under the auspices of the National Television and Video Association, are now the only television awards in the country. This year, the ceremony was very […]
censorship? Ann Eveleth The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) this week slammed the new Film and Publications Amendment Act, which passed virtually unnoticed through Parliament and the National Council of Provinces on March 25, as an “effort to return the power of censorship to the government”. FXI representative Laura Polecutt warned this week that the […]
axed Wally Mbhele The political future of Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa, hanging on a knife-edge pending the outcome of an ANC investigation into political infighting in his province, was given a dramatic boost last weekend. In what observers describe as a solid vote of confidence in Phosa’s leadership, all his principal political rivals in the […]
this city Marianne Merten The police have spent a vast amount of the money allocated to Operation Good Hope, aimed at breaking the cycle of violence in the Cape Peninsula, on transport and providing bodyguards to protect detectives assigned to it. Financial statements in the possession of the Mail & Guardian show just more than […]
M&Greporters The celebration of World Book Day on April 23 started in Spain and has spread around the world, receiving official recognition by Unesco. Last year, 38 countries celebrated books and reading on that day. April 23 is William Shakespeare’s birthday; in the wake of the success of the Oscar-winning film Shakespeare in Love, perhaps […]
I was extremely disturbed to read in the Daily Mail & Guardian the other day that the South African government had refused political asylum to Catherine Kaunda, daughter of former president Kenneth Kaunda. I do not know the full particulars of the case. Whatever the reason, it is the right of a sovereign government to […]
Coenraad Visser Tenors at the end of their careers. That is what the State Theatre’s production of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s I Pagliaci and the Three Tenors Bravo Africa Concert on Sunday at the Union Buildings have in common. In the bloody twins, Maurizio Frusoni manages Turridu with musicality and little voice, but then […]
A ZAMBIAN magistrate on Friday committed 12 journalists from an independent newspaper who are facing espionage charges to the high court. The journalists from the Post newspaper, who include the managing director and editor, Fred M’membe, were separately arrested and charged with espionage, which carries a minimum jail term of twenty years, after their paper […]
How do you feel when a white woman looks at you and tightens the grip on her sling-bag, sure that all you have on your mind are her possessions? Like an African male, that’s how. This, to be sure, is how many white people think of you: a crime about to happen. And that is […]
A PERUVIAN national, Oscar Werner Davis (28), pleaded guilty to charges of possessing cocaine with a street value of R3,2-million in Cape Town’s Magistrate’s Court on Friday, SABC radio news reported. Davis was arrested earlier this month at a Green Point hotel after allegedly selling cocaine to an undercover police agent. More cocaine was found […]