M&G reporter Relatively obscure craft-makers from rural areas and informal settlements have been chosen to exhibit in Washington, DC in June for the Smithsonian Institution’s folklife festival, which this year includes a focus on South Africa. About 100 participants, some barely known outside their own regions, will demonstrate a range of craft-making, from embroidering to […]
It is strange, to say the least, to hear opposition parties accusing the African National Congress of wanting to do well in the forthcoming election. It is even stranger to hear the lumbering old ANC seeming to accept that it should feel a bit guilty about its likely success at the polls. It now assiduously […]
Ivor Powell Six truckloads of weapons delivered to Inkatha Freedom Party strongman Phillip Powell represent only a fraction of the arsenal distributed by former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock to agents of the apartheid regime. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)is in possession of evidence that in advance of the 1994 elections, enough weapons to […]
Deon Potgieter Boxing If all goes well South Africa will have another world champion come Saturday night. The big hitting Peter Malinga will be challenging Ahmed Katejew for his World Boxing Organisation welterweight world title in Munich. It will be no easy task for the South African. Russian-born Katejew has been described as a modern […]
DETAINED journalist Maha Hassan Ali was released by security officials in Khartoum Wednesday afternoon on a personal bail by the chairman of the Sudanese Journalists Union, Najeeb Adam. Adam said he and a delegation of the union had approached “a ranking security official” and secured her release. Maha and two male journalists were arrested early […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week Money lust, capers gone wrong and innocent heroes caught up in crime are strong generic gimmicks in movies. Alfred Hitchcock excelled in the art of throwing innocent men into conspiratorial affairs. In North by Northwest he had Cary Grant as a light hearted advertising executive who’s abducted, framed and […]
Ann Eveleth South Africa’s “other half” – the rural poor – will descend on the birthplace of the African National Congress this weekend to thrash out a new charter demanding their fair share of the economic pie. Delegates from rural communities across the country will meet at the national Rural Convention in Bloemfontein to draft […]
THE African Connection Rally, in which Post and Telecommunications Minister Jay Naidoo participated, ended on Wednesday at Cape Agulhas — the southern tip of the continent — after a 22-day drive through Africa. It was met by members of the Cape Agulhas and surrounding communities, as well as dignitaries from around South Africa. The rally […]
Playing his own song in a huge American stadium is one of the highlights of Big Voice Jack life – and there’s a documentary film to prove it, writes Brendan Cooper Eighty thousand people can make a lot of noise, and when Dave Matthews leans in to his mic and says to the crowd, “Give […]
Sarah Ryle At last an economics professor has done something useful. He has worked out that punters who chose the six least popular numbers from the British National Lottery’s list of 49 stand to make an average weekly return of 11% on their stakes. The magic numbers – 36, 41, 46, 47, 48 and 49 […]