If one were asked to distinguish between the local section of an Exclusive Books magazine rack today and its equivalent 10 years ago, one might be hard-pressed to find any significant difference.
Anthea Buys speaks to Ross Douglas about the commercial possibilities of the country’s first art fair.
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/ 8 February 2008
Marlene Dumas tells Anthea Buys why she paints the human figure, but won’t do copulation.
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/ 9 November 2007
Douglas Curran’s exhibition documents the secret world of the Nyau spiritual culture, writes Anthea Buys.
Thailand’s army-installed prime minister said on Tuesday that ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra would be allowed to return to the kingdom to defend himself against corruption charges. ”His reason for wanting to return is understandable. He needs to come to fight the charges” made by an anti-corruption panel, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont told reporters.
150 women from the Eastern Cape have taken the fabric of their daily lives and woven a tapestry of hope that dominates the quiet interior of the Grahamstown Cathedral, writes Dianne Tipping-Woods.
He’s shy at first, or perhaps just slightly vulnerable — after all, he’s made his intensely personal story about growing up coloured in apartheid South Africa a public one. Novelist and poet Chris van Wyk has recently published his tragicomic memoir called <i>Shirley, Goodness & Mercy</i>. He spoke to Nikki Temkin.
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/ 19 December 2003
Welcome to the dark side. Around 73% of the universe is made not of matter or radiation but of a mysterious force called dark energy, a kind of gravity in reverse. Dark energy is listed as the breakthrough of the year in the US journal Science today.