The size of the ANC’s electoral victory need not be an issue of burning concern, writes Richard Calland So, it’s all over. And frankly, thank goodness for that. Elections are a necessary – though often engaging -evil. However, it was not that this campaign consumed so much energy and resources, or even that it was […]
IN BRIEF FRESH UGANDAN ATTACK A REBEL group which killed 80 students and abducted 50 more in western Uganda this week has struck again, killing five more people. The Allied Democratic Forces fighters killed a man, his two children and two Ugandan soldiers in Kabarole district on Wednesday. Earlier this week the ADF attacked a […]
With South Africa’s second democratic elections concluded, it is clear that the country has reached the end of an era.
Libby Young The last year has seen South African cyberspace grow up. The number of users has passed that crucial one million benchmark, Web addresses are starting to appear on bumper stickers and no business card is complete without an e-mail address. So what’s been happening to South Africa’s search engines? Newcomer Max, , from […]
Review of the week Charl Blignaut `I hate theatre,” said my most cynical friend’s boyfriend as he gazed around the Market Theatre bar, taking in the crowd of monied folk out risking their cars to see Pieter-Dirk Uys downtown on a Saturday night at 6.30pm. “Why do you hate theatre?” I asked. My cynical friend […]
slowly Five years into the new radio and where is the gender equality, asks Charl Blignaut It’s the Monday morning after the elections and AMLive co-anchor Sally Burdett is having a small domestic breakdown. She still can’t quite believe she got through the biggest political broadcast of the year in one piece. “Uh … Yes,” […]
challenge If the bullion price stays at its current level for any length of time, South Africa could face even more severe unemployment, report Donna Block and Mungo Soggot One of the first major challenges for the Mbeki presidency will be the potentially massive ramifications for South Africa’s economy stemming from the collapse in the […]
The famous rave drug on its own is not responsible for the deaths of productive young people, argues Ted Leggett The death of a young woman after her first experiment with “ecstasy” last weekend has brought the so-called “club drugs” to national attention. The incredible variety of substances associated with the rave scene have led […]
Dance enthusiasts are in for a treat this year with 10 mainstream dance productions on show at the national arts festival, writes Andrea Vinassa Every journalist has done an interview that has resonated far beyond the immediate confines of tomorrow’s deadline. Mine was in 1992 with celebrated New York choreographer Bill T Jones. There we […]
The winner of the Lillian Hellman/Dashiell Hammet award is not a standard academic, reports Mercedes Sayagues Judged on her writings alone, Dr Patricia McFadden appears to be an African Valkyrie in metal breast-plates, who sees the world through rigid prisms of gender and race. But when you meet her, she is a warm woman with […]