Lauren Basson looks at two films with hip-hop as a theme to be screened in September at the Tri-Continental Film Festival.
South African feminist writer Stephanie Vermeulen argues that men too are the victims of cultural forces that distort their lives. Her book <i>Stitched-Up: Who Fashions Women’s Lives?</i> will be published in the US this year, making her one of the first South African non-fiction feminist authors to be published there, writes Andrea Vinassa.
Gwen Ansell reviews Meg Samuelson’s <i>Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women? Stories of the South African Transition </i> and Siphiwo Mahala’s <i>When A Man Cries</i>.
Ben Okri has been described as a ‘literary visionary’ and ‘irritatingly pseudomystical’. His latest novel, <i>Starbook</i>, continues his quest to capture Africa, writes Maya Jaggi.
Esther Addley asks whether Amy Winehouse’s overdose will make the talented singer alter her lifestyle.
A Cape High Court judge on Friday criticised what he called ”unseemly political horse-trading” ahead of the floor-crossing window, and said it resembled transfer season in the English Premiership. Dennis Davis made the remarks before rejecting an application by the former general secretary of the Independent Democrats to overturn his expulsion from the party.
A magistrate had misdirected himself in finding that the ”exceptional circumstances” needed for Najwa Petersen to get bail did not exist, the Cape High Court was told on Friday. Petersen, who was not in court, is appealing against last month’s decision by Wynberg regional magistrate Robert Henney to refuse her bail.
Small business owners have until 1pm on Saturday to submit their 2006 tax return and financial statements in support of their applications for the small business tax amnesty. ”The South African Revenue Service [Sars] is encouraged by the number of queries and visits to our offices in the past week,” it said on Friday.
The leaders of France and Britain on Friday revived the spectre of sanctions against Khartoum if progress is not made on a Darfur ceasefire and upcoming political talks. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a joint editorial in the Times in London that sanctions could be used to bring peace to Darfur.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will consider whether to grant official first-class status to the rebel tours of South Africa made during the country’s apartheid era at a meeting next month, an ICC official said on Friday. Teams from England, Australia, West Indies and Sri Lanka toured South Africa in the 1980s when the country was isolated by the ICC for its apartheid policy.