South Africa comes packaged to please at La Villette music festival. HAZEL FRIEDMAN reports from Paris LA VILLETTE is one of those curious cultural monuments that straddle the multiple personalities of Paris. Established during the mid-1980s, it has served as a sort of secular cathedral, injecting a modern multi- cultural spirit into a drab, immigrant […]
Stefaans Brummer UNIVERSITY of Pretoria student leaders this week accused the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) of bias against the ANC-aligned South African Students’ Congress (Sasco) during an invesigation into campus NIA agents visited a number of university campuses last month to gather information for a report to Cabinet’s intelligence and security committee on the wave […]
‘IT is not for the President to determine whether or not the ANC was justified in its action on the day in question, whatever his personal feelings on the issue might be.” — Tony Leon (DP) ”We are dealing here with a President who, having made his statement in the Senate, has demonstrated to us […]
Jean-Pierre Rossouw MOVEABLE FEAST SOME cities are weatherless. You can safely guess that the sun will set on a clear sky and rise again on the same spotless horizon. Not so in Cape Town. Here seasons have their own personalities, each of them distinct. So when a restaurant sets out a menu that tries to […]
HILTON JUDIN is a young architect who has set out to undermine the foundations of his profession. What drives him is the knowledge he was obliged to confront when doing research into low-cost housing in South Africa. What he saw as he worked his way through the archives of the locations and townships was the […]
Nearly three decades of sanctions and boycotts will have ended as Cape Town artist Malcolm Payne unveils his piece for the Venice Biennale.
Both the pro-life and pro-choice viewpoints were forcefully expressed as the abortion issue was discussed in parliament, writes Rehana Rossouw IT’S BEEN a brutal time for the parliamentary committee listening to public submissions on the abortion issue. Over the past two weeks pro-lifers have assaulted them with bottled foetuses and gory slide shows of abortions […]
Age: Born in 1959 when it was still fashionable to name your children after Eastern Bloc communist leaders. Has this been a liability? Only after he returned from exile in 1990, when even computers were anti-communist and spell checks would advise his name be changed to “Tits” or “Veto”. Present occupation: Minister with a Mission […]
Bafana Khumalo With all the bitching about English as she is spoken on SAfm, wait till you hear the Voice of Soweto. It’s promising not to broadcast the queen’s English when the station comes on the air in spring. But in a spirit of reconciliation, the Voice promises not to slam the phone down on […]
Mike Loewe For Glenn van Loggerenberg, the earnest and upbeat station manager of Rhodes Music Radio, the angry old days of confrontation are an anathema. The new language, he insists, is sweet, slick music — much like the stuff that is coming through the walls as we Underneath the baggy pants and flowing jersey lurks […]