Progressive policies are needed to make the Klein Karoo festival more inclusive, writes Lauren Shantall It’s the only place where Bles Bridges performs solo inside Joshua Doore. Bheki Mkhwane and Ellis Pearson take their energetic physical theatre to the streets amid placards bearing questions like “Waar’s Ons Volkstaat?” brandished by black performance artists. It’s a […]
are greatest threat to Africa’s wildlife The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism said last week it will investigate a funding scandal involving the police’s endangered species protection unit. The unit’s commander, Pieter Lategan, takes on his critics A Zambian representative at a conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) once […]
Nato air attacks on Serbian military targets continue in what is clearly a paradoxical exercise: the emphasis on air intervention has worsened Serbian attacks on Kosovar military and civilians, bringing the prospect of Nato ground intervention to establish control – peacemaking – imminent; and the expanded Serbian repression has increased Kosovar support for independence, a […]
Loose cannon:Robert Kirby Carl Jung called it synchronicity, the acausal relationship between events. Two completely unrelated things I read last week seemed suddenly to fit that bill. The one was a book by Ilya Zbarsky and Samuel Hutchinson, called Lenin’s Embalmers, and the other was Minister Jay Naidoo’s lengthy Right to Reply, published in denial […]
EASY PEASY by Lesley Glaister (Bloomsbury) Easy Peasy takes its title from a children’s chant, but taunts in this narrative move from the playful to the spiteful and eventually to outright cruelty. The victim is a 10-year-old deaf boy, Vassily. The action alternates between the past of childhood and the present when the adult Griselda […]
Acclaimed South African comedienne Irini Stephanou gets to the heart of leading Greek tragedienne, Lydia Koniordou Lydia Koniordou has been hailed as the greatest contemporary tragedienne in Greece. In the ancient theatre of Epidaurus in Greece, she has commanded audiences of 13 000 people. Her reputation is based solely on her work in the theatre. […]
The phone has been ringing right off the hook since last week’s report about our new beginning in the northern suburbs. This would have been gratifying if it wasn’t for the fact that most callers have been obsessed, not with what we’ve managed to do about our safety, but with two burning questions: did we […]
you shall reap I wish to respond to Farid Esack’s condemnation of Judge John Foxcroft’s ruling against Allan Boesak (“Used and discarded like a condom”, March 26 to April 1). As a religious teacher and gender commissioner whose primary concern should be with establishing the rule of law and morality in a country where crime […]
Following the withdrawal of charges against Robert McBride, lawyers for the foreign affairs official have spoken out about those who framed him. Wally Mbhele reports More than a year after the dramatic arrest of Department of Foreign Affairs official Robert McBride on trumped-up charges of gun-running, his defence team this week finally had an opportunity […]
Charlene Smith The law is being “cheapened” – not only by lawyers who charge extortionate rates, but by a public misled by poor journalistic understanding of legal debates, Judge Mohammed Navsa told a graduation ceremony at the University of the Witwatersrand on Tuesday night. Navsa, a Johannesburg High Court judge and head of the Legal […]