What do South Africa’s ”born frees” – who came into the world after the death of apartheid, or were too young to remember it – know about their country’s traumatic past? Have our children been changed by 12 years of democracy?
What do South Africa’s ”born frees” — who came into the world after the death of apartheid, or were too young to remember it — know about their country’s traumatic past? Do African high school pupils know or care about the suffering and sacrifices of their parents and grandparents?
Mustafa Maluka’s gigantic portraits make us confront individuals from the outside. He spoke to Niren Tolsi.
Chatsworth, Durban, lunchtime: 16-year-old Colin Pillay staggers out of an alleged drug-dealer’s semi-detached council home, oblivious. An hour earlier, Pillay and his mother had turned up at the Chatsworth Youth Centre seeking a prescription for Subutex (buprenorphine, a schedule six drug) to combat his three-and-a-half-year "sugars" addiction.
That Nkandla is a depressed area where the people feel economically and politically marginalised is tangible. Nkandla town’s streets are filled with young people with nothing to do and any line of questioning regarding Jacob Zuma inevitably ends with the desperate hope that the situation in the area would improve if he were to become president.
The protesters outside court vouching for embattled Jacob Zuma were largely female. Women with his photo emblazoned across their chests. Women honking vuvuzelas in his support. Selling T-shirts to raise funds for his defence. Burning images of the woman who dared lay a rape charge against him.
ONE of the most potent halfback combinations of the 90’s may be back in business when the Natal Sharks take on Newport at Kings Park on Saturday. Henry Honiball and Kevin Putt may be reunited as the halfback pair for the Sharks in the Gary Teichmann Tribute match. Flyhalf Honiball is a definite starter, while […]
‘Long ago, in a far, far galaxy …’ So began a 1977 film that spawned a hundred imitators, billions of dollars in profits, two sequels and, now, the first of three planned prequels. What is it about George Lucas’s Star Wars films that has so captured the imagination? By Mark Lawson In 1977, a promising […]
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/ 23 October 1998
Andrew Worsdale : Movie of the week If, like myself and many others, you are tired of African-American films that are full of violence, drugs and depressing representations of the black community, you’ll take a shine to Eve’s Bayou. The story revolves around a 10-year-old girl who seems to have the perfect family: a father […]
Being raped is just the beginning of the ordeal for thousands of South African women, writes Angella Johnson IT was a bitterly cold evening when Gladys Masai wrapped up in her winter coat and set off to visit her aunt in Brits. The journey from Pretoria should have taken about an hour and she was […]