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/ 30 November 2005
So here we are again, wrapping up another school year and longing for the holidays. The year-end exams are behind us and we all await the annual ritual of the matric pass-rates announcement. Which province will bask in the glory of first place? Which will be crowned with the dunce’s cap?
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/ 30 November 2005
Your average youngster who’s hip to the beat of R&B and kwaito may not think there is any possibility of forging a relationship with classical music. Classical music, the youth are most likely to believe, is only suitable for rich, ageing Eurocentrics.
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/ 30 November 2005
There’s an old mantra in the humanitarian aid world — and many still live by it: Whatever you do, don’t let the aid get near the men with guns. Humanitarian assistance, they say, should never be entrusted to armies. Well, a few days ago I was flying low over the crushed ruins of Balakot, a thriving market town and tourist centre that was reduced to rubble in only a few seconds by the earthquake on October 8.
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/ 30 November 2005
Cartoons and animation in the West are predominantly seen as being "you know … for kids", to steal from <i>Hudsucker Proxy</i>. In reality, they are just another vehicle for writers and filmmakers to get their story across. But there’s this constant, almost sneering attitude at the animated and "graphic" genres, as if they automatically have less depth or content than the written word.
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/ 30 November 2005
”What is one to make of the extraordinary fuss over Guardian writer Emma Brockes’s interview with Noam Chomsky? Why should readers so desperately defend the honour of a famous man who lives thousands of miles away, has no immediate relevance to South Africa, and has the wit, means and standing to defend himself,” writes the Mail & Guardian‘s Drew Forrest.
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/ 30 November 2005
A sports field in Tonga has become the focus of a battle of a different kind — protests, huge by Tongan standards, aimed at ending the archipelago’s semi-feudal system of government. Under banners reading ”Enough lies, time for truth” and ”Unity and solidarity for freedom”, thousands have sung, chanted and prayed in the shadow of the palace.
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/ 30 November 2005
Watching a recent episode of CSI, in which a couple put some dildos and assorted other sex toys in the dishwasher after a ”swingers” party, I was reminded of my various attempts to get a dildo. To many people this might not seem a difficult task. But living in Zimbabwe increases both the degree of difficulty, and the danger.
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/ 29 November 2005
The original drummer and a founding member of British rock group The Shadows has died aged 62. Tony Meehan, who played drums on all the early hits by the group, which also backed pop star Cliff Richard until 1961, died on Monday at St Mary’s hospital in Paddington, central London, after an accident at his home.
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/ 29 November 2005
The Proteas captain, Graeme Smith, and teammate Justin Ontong on Tuesday had X-rays to injuries on their left hands, in Cape Town and Johannesburg respectively. Both players were examined by orthopaedic surgeons soon after their arrival from Mumbai, where South Africa concluded its five-match one-day international series against India.