Reza de Wets’s imaginative landscape is instantly recognisable, writes Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon of the striking and lingering <i>Breathing In</i>.
Sophocles’s classic is rearticulated in a context of terrorism, Aids and globalisation in Antigone. John Kani stars. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon reviews.
Significant developments are underway to integrate Grahamstown’s impoverished periphery into the National Arts Festival, both economically and culturally. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon takes to the townships in search of the other National Arts Festival.
In the industrial landscape around the Johannesburg inner city, about 24 000 migrant men live in single-sex hostels. A further 15 000 men and women live in informal settlements. Sixty-eight percent of the men and 80% of the women unemployed. But a programme called Mpilonhle-Mpilonde is upgrading the quality of life in hostels and informal settlements through group-based learning.
Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon speaks to Madala Kunene and Bernard Mndaweni about their new album which pays homage to traditional spirituality.
Will somebody do something about insensitive teachers? My son goes to a pre-primary school. Firstly, the principal called me at work to remind me that I had ‘forgotten” to supply details of my son’s father in the application form. As if that was not enough, my son came home one afternoon demanding to know why […]
Ten years into our democracy, gender inequity remains a challenge. Since 1994 we have seen significant changes in policy development that reflect the government’s commitment to responding to this challenge. But implementation of progressive policies has been uneven and the high levels of unemployment, HIV/Aids and sexual violence against women have created a dire situation that government departments have struggled to respond to.
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/ 24 February 2004
”Now, you have black faces riding in limousines along with white faces. But, the social and economic system has not changed, maybe even gotten worse.” Linguist Noam Chomsky has become a leading dissident voice in the United States. He talks exclusively to the M&G.
Oasis Association, a community foundation that assists people with intellectual disabilities, is exceptional because of its holistic approach to integrating social concerns with environmental issues.
Berg River Textiles in Paarl, one of the largest cotton mills in South Africa, has shown how environmental improvement can go hand in hand with increased profits.