Riaan Wolmarans Barbarellos, Illovo Square, Oxford Road, Illovo. V-Sessions presents DJRudi playing deep and jazzy house on Tuesdays from 9pm. It’s R20 with a free cocktail if you register on www.verge.co.za. Bassline, 7 Seventh Street, Melville. Wessel vanRensburg performs onFridayMay 3 and Moses Khumalo is on stage on Saturday May 4 and Sunday May 5 […]
Alex Sudheim 330, 330 Point Road. The hardest, fastest club in the country continues to prove that it still has what it takes to push the pleasure buttons of Durban’s hardcore party freaks and seduce every hedonist in town on a Saturday night. Since it opened in 1988, Durban’s first and perennially foremost rave repository […]
How can higher education policies be shaped to support Nepad, asks Richard A Fehnel Two recent news items cause one to ask whether South African higher education is missing “the big picture” which, from one perspective, is how to deal with the future of Africa. African leaders came to an agreement last year that the […]
In a statement released on April 17 Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon declares that his party has shown “tremendous growth in Alex”, achieving a “substantial increase in support in Alexandra” when their candidate in the by-election managed to obtain 15,2% of the vote, “up from 4,2% in 2000”. What Mr Leon fails to mention is […]
Thabo Mohlala The University of the North West is offering courses in conflict resolution and the preservation of indigenous knowledge systems Conflicts and wars occur with such regularity in Africa that the continent urgently needs innovative methods and mechanisms to improve its chances of stemming a rampant culture of self-annihilation. Angolans have been tearing one […]
New technology may signal the end of computer screens as we know them, writes David Shapshak When Apple boss Steve Jobs introduced the new iMac, which has a built-on flat panel monitor, he used an interesting phrase: “The death of the CRT.” The CRT, or cathode ray tube, is the technology that has powered our […]
Adventure walk. The Great Autumn Adventure Walk will take place at the Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden in Poortview, Roodepoort, on May 4 at 8am. Tickets cost R20 for adults and R10 for pensioners and students. Tel: (011) 958 1750 or e-mail: [email protected]. Autumn carnival. A carnival to raise funds for the establishment of a trauma […]
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.
THE dissected and preserved remains of the so-called ”Hottentot Venus” arrived in South Africa from France early Friday, nearly 200 years after the African woman was first put on display in Europe as a sexual freak.
AT least 65 Maoist rebels were killed in clashes with security personnel in two western districts on Thursday, said Nepal’s minister of state for home Devendra Raj Kandel.