A ZIMBABWEAN farmer, barricaded in his house since April 16, has for 20 days
running continued to resist efforts by war veterans to evict him, Zimbabwe’s
Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) reported on Sunday.
2 Rollout will continue: The govern-ment said it would continue with its roll-out of anti-retroviral drugs in state hospitals regardless of the outcome of the Constitutional Court. The minister of health’s representative, Sibani Mngadi, said the government was not challenging the roll-out of nevirapine, but “the powers of a judge to decide on how government […]
Hilary Footitt Suddenly, after September 11, we hear commentators noting with shock that only 10% of the CIA’s Middle Eastern desk could actually speak Arabic. Academics express concern that British expertise in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies is dangerously low and cannot provide us with the sort of guidance we may need to influence the […]
Emma Gordon Blass Online learning is the ideal way for mature students to further their education If you are over 25 and considering returning to university to requalify or to get an advanced degree in your professional area, then e-learning was invented with you in mind. What is e-learning and why is it targeting adult […]
More than a party girl Caroline Sullivan Philadelphia-born Alicia “Pink” Moore views this second album as a “mind-opening” outing that will distinguish her from the glut of girl-pop clones (Mya, for instance, a collaborator on her number-one single Lady Marmalade). Bearing that in mind, she should drop the giggly exclamation marks used instead of I’s […]
theatre Matthew Krouse African Bank Market Theatre, Newtown Cultural Precinct. Celebrity director Mbongeni Ngema revives his Eighties masterpiece and Tony Award-nominee Asinamali! The cast combines new and original cast members, including Thami Cele, Bongani Hlope, Bheki Mqadi, Bhoyi Ngema and Ntusi Gordon. Until May 5. Book at Computicket. Tel: 832 1641. Barney Simon Theatre, African […]
More than a decade after the Market Photography Workshop was founded, a publication has been launched that illustrates the changing face of South African photography. Yazeed Kamaldien reports Newtown’s Market Photography Workshop was started in 1989, and in reaction to the constraints of apart- heid it threw together people from all walks of life teaching […]
There are some interesting acts of communal memory happening in Cape Town from the Cape Town-boy-makes-good Mark Shuttleworth’s Sixty-Six Shit-Hot Sunsets to the tiny, organised, and impressive Holocaust Museum.
This week’s unexpected Cabinet announcement clearly signals a shift in South Africa’s policy on the treatment of HIV/Aids, and it would be churlish not to praise the government.
THE governor of a fourth Madagascan province has announced his territory’s independence in protest over the proclamation of Marc Ravalomanana as president, officials said on Friday.