Barok is elevating fabric with its wearable, hand-crafted items, writes Tisha Eetgerink.
Tisha Eetgerink explores the brave new world of blow-up dolls and adult plastic.
In just four-and-a-half years, the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has helped 544 000 HIV-positive people begin anti-retroviral treatment, distributed 11,3-million insecticide-treated bed nets and treated 1,4-million cases of tuberculosis. This is according to a progress report released by the fund on Thursday.
Alexandra, Gauteng’s "township of rhythm", is ready to jump aboard the tourism train. Efforts are being made to lure visitors into the heart of a place that was once ruled by gangsters and considered strictly off-limits to anybody with a hint of common sense. But times have changed.
Samke Lozondi leads his dog, Rocky, on to the sports field of Mpophomeni township school, 20km from Howick, KwaZulu-Natal. He has trouble restraining the three-year-old Rocky from going over to sniff the white Jack Russell that is barking to their left. ”I got him as a puppy, but he just keeps on growing,” says the young owner as he strokes his black and bristle-haired companion that already stands level with his chest.
One day prior to June 16 the pupils of Inkwenkwezi Primary School in Soweto gather in the assembly area. They are asked to think about the day thirty years ago when police opened fire on schoolchildren protesting in the streets of the township. The headmaster of Inkwenkwezi tells how, back in 1976, young people decided they had put up with racism and repression for long enough.
She returned to Africa for research on a new book and ended up with a teenage son. Carol Lee, British journalist and author of the newly published book <i>A child called Freedom</i>, is one of the initiators of The Soweto Project, aimed at bringing education to poor children in the famous township south-west of Johannesburg.
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In the auditorium of the Goethe Institut, Johannesburg, a movie is being shown, but it is running late. Moments before 9pm, the screen goes black and film fans are told they are welcome to borrow the film to watch the ending at home. It’s time for the Soccer World Cup, and the big screen comes alive again just in time for the German national anthem.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=soccer_world_cup_2006"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/272488/icon_focuson_wc3.gif" align=left border=0></a>Furry, orange stick-on sideburns, a hat shaped like a piece of Gouda cheese, clogs … Dutch soccer fans huddled together in Lapamanzi Pub Africa in Johannesburg on Sunday as their national team took on Serbia and Montenegro for their first game in the 2006 World Cup.
According to the National Youth Victimisation Study 2005, 4,3-million youngsters were assaulted, robbed or sexually assaulted — or fell victim to other crimes such as housebreaking, theft or car hijacking — in the year since September 2004.