Friday night : Rudeboy Paul Kicking back after a week of Groove Kamikazes till 10, where to go since Y2K burned down? To get down till break of dawn with beautiful girls and chilled vibes? Nice and easy? Last couple of weeks, I’ve been mellowing out over a Jack Daniels and lime checking out the […]
Cameron Duodu : LETTER FROM THE NORTH `A great tree has been uprooted” in the Asante kingdom of Ghana! This is how the Asante – incorrectly dubbed the “Ashanti” by colonialist and neo-colonialist writers – announced the death of their king. He was Otumfuor Opoku Ware II, and he has just joined his ancestors at […]
A newspaper report that half of the low- cost houses already built by order of the government are substandard seems to have been inaccurate. Charlene Smith reports Every three minutes and 10 seconds a new Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)house is erected in Gauteng – and the government has enacted tough legislation to ensure that […]
Vanessa Farr : CROSSFIRE I was perplexed and frustrated, not to mention angered, by Cameron Duodu’s ”Viagra’s here, so let the clit be” (March 12 to 18). What a contradictory article this is: ostensibly, Duodu is attempting to express his support for International Women’s Day, an event which, he grudgingly admits, ”does have its serious […]
NIGERIAN journalist Declan Okpalaeke was named the CNN African Journalist of the Year at an award ceremony at Johannesburg’s Civic Theatre on Thursday night. Okpalaeke won the prize for an article on male infertility and a traditional alternative to Viagra, known as Ogbolo. Okpalaeke, a reporter for Nigeria’s The Guardian newspaper, said it is vital […]
A BROOKLYN, Pretoria policeman and a Ugandan doctor were arrested on Thursday night in connection with the smuggling of two elephant tusks. The endangered species protection unit said Inspector Malose Malakomme (32) and Ugandan doctor Oli Kawesi (35) will appear in the Pretoria Regional Court on May 31.
Review of : the week Nicholas Dawes Southern Born is Myer Taub’s first play, and it has the considerable advantages of a strong cast and an experienced director in Mark Graham. Given the parlous condition of serious theatre in the Western Cape, one approaches it with every hope that the script will be strong enough […]
FREE STATE African National Congress chairman Pat Matosa has lost his High Court appeal against a 1997 conviction for attempted murder, and is likely to serve a five-and-a-half year sentence. Matosa plans yet another appeal however. The Court’s decision threatens Matosa’s political career — the Constitution prohibits anyone sentenced to more than a year in […]
A TRADITIONAL Nigerian rainmaker was killed by lightning this week as he climbed on to a building and attempted to divert a storm. The man, known as Rasaq, was employed by a family in Abeokuta, south-western Nigeria, to hold off the rain threatening a burial wake. Wearing only a pair of red shorts, Rasaq had […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela will address a rally in Tripoli on Friday after meeting Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi about the Lockerbie case. His spokesperson Parks Mankahlana said on Thursday that Mandela has been given an exemption from the United Nations to fly directly to the Tripoli despite an air embargo. Mandela leaves Stockholm for Libya late […]