THEATRE: David Le Page BESSIE HEAD’S novel Maru is a stark dissection of racial prejudice, all the more compelling for looking at the relationship of black Batswana and the Bushmen. It is not a perfect novel, but there is enough insight, and unexpected writing, to make it memorable. Walter Chakela’s adaptation for the stage, now […]
The man at the centre of a black-white battle for Zimbabwe’s tobacco trade has links with a former CCB agent, reports Jan Raath The delicate perfume of freshly cured, silk- textured, golden tobacco leaf wafting from the sprawling tobacco auction floors in Harare is the setting for Zimbabwe’s latest race tangle. A bitter black-white war […]
The District Six Museum is a memorial to the evils of the Group Areas Act, but its survival is threatened by the government’s lack of support, writes Rehana Rossouw ALTHOUGH memorials celebrating Afrikaner history receive millions of rands of support, the government has only been prepared to make a one-off payment of R200 000 for […]
An MD allegedly interfering with editorial content, reporters fearing for their jobs? What, or who, is going down at the Sowetan? Jacquie Golding-Duffy speaks to both sides While New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) is gearing up to bid for newspapers in the Times Media Limited stable, some of the consortium’s board members are facing accusations […]
The exclusion of wine products from the EU free trade agreement negotiations has had wine farmers calling for tariff protection. Lynda Loxton reports South African wines have taken the world by storm, but the wine industry is growing restive about the possible unfair competition it could face from imports. This week, KWV chairman Lourens Jonker […]
ANDREW WORSDALE spoke to the movie-mad director of the South African/Indian film, The Making of a Mahatma LAST weekend’s lush premiere of The Making of a Mahatma — the first feature film to be co-produced by South Africa and India — had a distinctly political feel to it. Newly appointed Minister of Trade and Industry […]
After a couple of years in the wilderness, Marius van Heerden is firmly back in the limelight after breaking the South African 800m record ATHLETICS: Julian Drew THREE years ago Marius van Heerden approached the new athletics season full of optimism. He was one of this country’s rising new stars who, the previous year, had […]
Rehana Rossouw THE failure of some magistrates and members of the medical profession to assist victims of human rights abuses emerged as a theme in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Western Cape hearings this week. The family of Looksmart Ngudle, a journalist and Umkhonto weSizwe operative who died in detention in September 1963, testified that […]
A new Bill before the Namibian legislature proposes stiff penalties for journalists found in ‘contempt of Parliament’, reports Graham Hopwood JOURNALISTS are fearful that Namibia’s era of official goodwill towards the media is over after the tabling of a draft law which seeks to punish journalists for reporting leaks or “false information” on parliamentary affairs. […]
TELEVISION: Hazel Friedman IT doesn’t require an analyst to read between the lines of the SABC’s first public forum for discussion of the weird and wanton ways of the print media. In fact, after three episodes of this long-overdue, well-intentioned but weakly conceived programme, the cracks in Between the Lines can be measured on the […]