‘God forbid! White people are moving into the townships! Crime will go up! Property prices will go down!” This was the greeting Wits doctoral fellow Detlev Krige received when he announced to his companion at a drinking hole in Rockville, Soweto, that he was about to become a neighbour. A recent conference revealed the extent to which <i>ikasi</i> and metropolitan cultures have crossed over, report Sizwe samaYende and Liz McGregor.
Cotlands looks, at first glance, like any other nursery school. Children clamber over a jungle gym; others splash paint over sheets of paper stuck to the wall. Bigger children pore over colouring books under the watchful gaze of a teacher. But if one of those children were to fall off the jungle gym and scrape […]
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/ 17 December 2004
One of the many tragic aspects of Phaswane Mpe’s sudden death last Sunday was that he had just embarked on a dramatic new path that he was convinced would bring him fulfilment. Only weeks ago, Mpe gave up a sought-after doctoral fellowship at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (Wiser) to devote himself to an apprenticeship as a healer.
Nine years after international outrage stopped the cull of elephants in the Kruger National Park, more than 3Â 000 of the beasts face the new threat of a death sentence — because science has failed to come up with a cheap elephant contraceptive.