Shopping and Fucking is definitely the most anal play of the year, though whether it is for reasons the playwright intended is debatable. As you enter the Barney Simon Theatre you enviously notice that the actors are going to lounge on a huge, Dali- esque couch, while you have to sit on a backless bench […]
Poverty, abuse, addiction and fear drive many women to sex work, writes Swapna Prabhakaran Durban in autumn is viciously deceptive. The sun still shines as if it were summer, but the wind comes in off the ocean, picks up grit and sand, and stings like ice-cold splinters wherever it touches flesh. On Durban’s beachfront there […]
Adrian Turpin Profile: Sam Rockwell To become a star every actor needs a quirk in his or her private life. A handy hook, preferably unconnected with work, something that allows people to say, “Yeah, that’s the guy who …” For Sam Rockwell, it’s what he does in bed. “My mother, let’s just say, was a […]
Peter Makurube When Allen Kwela lost his beloved Gibson, the whole nation was up in arms. The daily paper Sowetan ran an article appealing to the muggers to return that national treasure. The criminals returned the guitar to the paper’s offices – intact. Kwela had been out drinking and was staggering home when a gang […]
The Media Sector of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange has risen by 70% since the October 1997 crash, but growth has only begun. Last week’s announcement that the board of industrial giant Johnnies Industrial Corporation Limited (Johnnic) had voted to implement a strategic re-alignment of Omni Media Corporation Limited (Omnicor) sets the sector on a future […]
Mark Gleeson in Baiersbronn World Cup It is a persistent debate as to which is bigger and better and commands the most prestige – soccer’s World Cup or the Olympic Games. Both claim television audiences in the billions, unscientific figures that still seem to seduce multi-million dollar marketing packages out of corporate coffers. The World […]
away Ann Eveleth The Government cannot achieve its land reform targets within existing legislative, procedural and resource limitations, according to the findings of a multi-pronged research project conducted by the National Land Committee. Market-based restrictions, misconceived legislation, narrow legal definitions and a lack of co- ordination between different government departments are some of the obstacles […]
in Swapo death camp Melissa Jones and Michael Gillard Recurring nightmares of torture have haunted Emma Kambangula for the past nine years. “In one, I am naked and being beaten with bundles of sticks by three men, while two others are restraining my daughter, Freda, who is crying, screaming and trying to run to me,” […]
Mukoni T Ratshitanga The African National Congress in the Northern Province this week met one of its allies, the Congress of South African Students (Cosas), in a bid to iron out differences between Cosas and MEC of Education Joe Phaahla. Relations between Phaahla and Cosas hit an all-time low last week when the provincial chair […]
Charl Blignaut On stage in Johannesburg From the parking lot already, it is obvious that this is not going to be a regular evening at the theatre. There are large, mounted candles burning outside on the lawn of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereenigings’s Trap der Jeugd national monument building in Cottlesloe, Johannesburg, and there are […]