Police officers and crime experts generally back the recommendations of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation’s report on policing, and particularly its call for greater stability. The report recommends that the current structure of the police force be made to work and that further restructuring be avoided.
Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi continues to fiddle while Khutsong burns. As anti-incorporation protests turned violent this week, the minister sent residents a message that can only inflame their anger. After weeks of peaceful demonstration against the town’s removal from Gauteng to North West under cross-border municipality legislation, youths this week looted shops and property belonging to Somali and Pakistani traders.
<i>Telling Stories</i> bears all the trademarks that we have come to love and/or hate about Paul Grootboom’s work: the gratuitous sex and violence, writes Kwanele Sosibo
<b>Kwanele Sosibo</b> looks at the business of serving and service Johannesburg.
Kwanele Sosibo speaks to teens about teddy bears, virginity and <i>Debbie Does Dallas</i>.
Strip clubs in Johannesburg tend to remind me of your average trendy restaurant: an overpriced menu and bad service. The situation resembles the lyrics of a Goodie Mob song, an erstwhile stripper anthem in the group’s hometown, I’m told: “They don’t dance no more; all they do is sit around chilling.”
Bob Marley’s wife ‘might have the name, but she doesn’t have his philosophy’, write Kwanele Sosibo and Percy Zvomuya.
Independent producers contracted to the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) have complained that their problems with the public broadcaster have reached crisis point, with potentially grave repercussions for the production industry and broadcasters. The Independent Producers’ Organisation and the Producers’ Alliance set out their grievances in a five-page document.
Although the third South African Music Conference boasted a world-class, house-heavy lineup the real fireworks kicked off when Durban’s Finest, took to the stage. Kwanele Sosibo reports.
”As far as aura photographs go, mine was quite extreme — so extreme, in fact, that my face was pretty much entirely obscured. According to Linda Long, owner of House of Isis, a Rosebank-based New Age healing store, where the photograph was taken, the composition of the photo is indicative of someone ‘dealing with a lot of stuff”’, writes the Mail & Guardian‘s Kwanele Sosibo.