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`The vibrancy and rich, kaleidoscopic colours in his work reflected a 20th century of quicker movement, shortening distances, instant news.’ John Fordham assesses the legacy of Duke Ellington in his centenary month I heard Duke Ellington and his Orchestra just once, at Westminster Abbey in October 1973. Ellington was 74, but though he looked a […]
Director Ken Kaplan has made a zombie movie that mixes red blood and black humour. Andrew Worsdale, acting like a zombie, gets the inside story Ten years ago writer/director Ken Kaplan, at age 24, was in the formative stages of pre-production and major development on a movie called Fanus – Pure Blood. It was the […]
Xolela Mangcu:CROSSFIRE The political transformation of the past 10 years will no doubt go down in history as one of the most important events of the millennium – on par with the French, American, Indian, Chinese, and Russian revolutions. Some of our leading scholars have taken to talking about the “maturing” and “consolidation” of our […]
Catherine Knox at the Eastern Cape Dance Umdudo The Eastern Cape has always been an incubator bed, a crucible. A place of fecundity and foment. Last week’s FNB Dance Umdudo – five days and nights of dance in Grahamstown – was a celebration of work in progress. An unadjudicated bricolage of bodies in movement – […]
`depression’ Marianne Merten The current spotlight on police brutality has apparently made little difference to the fate of two members of the Cape Peninsula dog unit. Accused of shooting dead two car-theft suspects and endangering the lives of their colleagues during the incident, they have avoided the suspension recommended by the police watchdog, the Independent […]
THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the main trade unions federation, has ordered a general strike next week over payment of a new minimum wage, a press report said Thursday. NLC president Adams Oshiomhole asked private sector workers to join their colleagues in the public sector on May 6 for a general strike, the independent Nigerian […]
David le Page Many would guess that the cheapest way to stop is to go cold turkey overnight. But in all but a rare few cases this approach is likely to take its toll in discarded friends left with their heads chewed off, kilograms gained and expanded grocery bills, chewed nails and kicked dogs. Some […]
THURSDAY, 2.00PM: STATE-owned diamond mine Alexkor is at loggerheads with local Northern Cape pigeon clubs to find the most palatable solution to rid the town of the birds, thought to be used in a uncut diamond smuggling racket that has reportedly cost the mine production losses of up to 20%. Alexkor’s chief executive Thian Combrink […]
Ann Eveleth Land reform has quietly undergone a major policy shift as the government has entered the land market in a bid to reshape the way land reform works. Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Derek Hanekom told the Mail & Guardian in an interview this week that the government had already begun purchasing farms […]