MORE than 45000 Burundians have left five regroupment camps in Kanyosha, on the outskirts of Bujumbura. It comes a day after Nelson Mandela, chief mediator in Burundi’s peace process, announced that he has made a deal with Burundian President Pierre Buyoya for all internees to be freed from Burundi’s regroupment camps by July 31. About […]
Click on image for full-size view.
GregBowes CD OFTHEWEEK ‘When I step on to that floor I’m gonna be all business,” proclaims the voice on the intro to Aim’s Cold Water Music (Grand Central), and from the first notes you can sense that something beyond the usual is surely happening here. This coolly packaged debut on breakbeat’s new major force, the […]
A new book lifts the lid on a slug-fest involving some of the country’s most distinguished scientists Ellen Bartlett Palaeoanthropology researchers at Wits University – renowned the world over for their scientific work – have become such a fractious bunch internally that the university’s management has had to separate the opposing factions, placing them at […]
show ‘reform’ Nawaal Deane Sex, gangsters and robberies are the main focus of articles in the Boksburg Progressive Press, with drawings of dismal prison cells reflecting the gloomy life of a prisoner. The newspaper, introduced as a rehabilitation programme in the Department of Correctional Services’s Boksburg prison, may not interest Rupert Murdoch or Tony O’Reilly, […]
Several vacancies could pave the way for the appointment of more black judges to the Supreme Court of Appeal Khadija Magardie The Supreme Court of Appeal could soon undergo a major shake-up as several vacancies provide the opportunity to significantly alter the composition of an institution long criticised for being too white and too male. […]
Khadija Magardie A newborn South African baby can expect an average of 40 healthy years. That’s the grim news from researchers, as the HIV/Aids pandemic slashes up to seven years of healthy life expectancy off the average South African life. Next to Sierra Leone, Malawi and Namibia, South Africa ranks as one of the lowest […]
Tracey Naughton Currently showing in Pretoria is an exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art owned by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Some may question this showcasing of Aboriginal culture, titled Seasons of the Kunwinjku, in the context of the Australian prime minister’s reluctance to offer an official apology for the effects of history […]
Philippa Garson CLASS STRUGGLE Two very different education “stories” dominated the news last week, both encapsulating the bizarre contradictions of this land. The first was the findings of the Curriculum Review committee, which in measured tones discussed its recommendations at a lengthy and fairly highbrow technical briefing. The second was the less palatable and frankly […]
Dale McKinley CROSSFIRE South Africa is a strange place to be if you count yourself as a political activist and/or commentator. It often seems as if this sizeable sector of our population is caught in a linguistic time warp, what with echoes of vain, glorious, nationalist verbiage ringing in our Southern African ears, resistant strains […]