If land hunger is the way blacks in Zimbabwe most acutely experience the legacy of white supremacy, in South Africa the comparable black experience is lack of access to capital. We either correct this shortcoming or we bid goodbye to any possibility of a prosperous and peaceful South Africa. Apartheid set out systematically to destroy […]
Who better than David Ginola to replace Princess Diana as the Red Cross’s ambassador on landmine control? On the eve of his trip to Cambodia, the Gallic glory boy talks to Denis Campbell The dark sunglasses, non- descript grey clothes and floppy hat pulled down over his eyes are a poor disguise. Almost everyone in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Friday 6.00pm. GOVERNMENT, farmers and militant war veterans agreed at talks in Harare on Friday to set up a land commission to oversee the peaceful transfer of white-owned land in Zimbabwe to landless blacks. David Hasluck, director of the Commercial Farmers Union, said the proposal has been agreed at a three-hour […]
Guy Willoughby ‘Herman Charles Bosman died in 1951. Why revisit him now? Simple; we need to look to the past, the pre-apartheid past, to know the way forward. Apartheid so pervaded our consciousness that it’s immediately dated itself. All the writing of that period is exactly that – period stuff now …” David Butler, one-man […]
globalisation A view from the US on how the most important international economic institutions bleed the world’s poorest countries dry Mark Weisbrot On December 1 1999, as clouds of tear gas hovered over the streets of Seattle, President Bill Clinton said yes to 50E000 protesters when he wanted to say no. He agreed to make […]
MPUMALANGA’S suspended parks board chief Alan Gray and three alleged accomplices are scheduled to appear in Nelspruit’s regional court on Thursday on 77 embezzlement charges. Gray, who was forced to sell his personalised M3 BMW and Land Rover earlier this year due to escalating legal fees, is accused of siphoning over R2,3-million out of the […]
Chris McGreal in Freetown The surge of foreboding among Freetown’s long-suffering citizens is not made any easier by the realisation that their peninsula city is little better than a sprawling trap. Foreigners may scan the skies for the rescue helicopters, but there is nowhere for Sierra Leonians to run if Foday Sankoh and his rebels […]
Don Albert It’s alarming just how misunderstood jazz is in South Africa. Jazz is, after all, a form which provides the purveyor with basic as well as intangible rules. Unlike the 100m dash or an office memo, there is no specific format. It’s amazing that everyone is a so called “classical music” listener; maybe that […]
Michael Vlismas GOLF Harvey Penick, the legendary golf teacher, once said: “No pretty woman can miss a single shot without a man giving her some poor advice.” It is for this reason that a certain golf correspondent kept his mouth shut while watching Joanne Norton practice her putting earlier this year. Norton was struggling to […]
A documentary about the transformation of Pretoria’s JG Strijdom Square is to be screened at a Canadian film festival Thebe Mabanga and Connie Selebogo A Pretoria-based black film-maker’s story about an apartheid-era icon is about to enjoy a world-wide audience. Pule Diphare’s JG Strijdom is Very, Very Dead will be shown at Halifax Input 2000, […]