MOVIE OF THE WEEK: The Harry Potter franchise: It’s like we’re treading water until the big climax arrives, writes Shaun de Waal.
An exchange programme between Southern African and Native American artists has etched out parallels between cultures, writes Lynley Donnelly.
Affirmative action is dead in many respects, says Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin. Beeld newspaper reported him on Friday as saying the policy was not being applied in South Africa because of skills shortages. Erwin was defending the government’s affirmative action policy on Thursday at the South African Business Club in London.
Zimbabwe may stop publishing inflation data for one year, an effort economists say is aimed at shielding the government from embarrassment over its failure to rein in soaring prices in the economically depressed nation. President Robert Mugabe’s government has failed to release inflation figures for May and June.
The leadership of South Africa’s communist party has signalled it wants to stay allied to the ruling African National Congress (ANC) rather than contest elections independently. A proposal to run a separate slate of candidates in the 2009 elections was put forth at the South African Communist Party national congress this week, but was quickly sidelined.
<i>Mail & Guardian</i> writers look at the best of the real-life dramas on show at the Encounters South African Documentary Festival.
The Triangle Project said on Friday they were outraged by recent killings of two lesbian women in Soweto. ”We demand justice and immediate police action to incarcerate the monsters who killed these women,” said Vista Kalipa, spokesperson for Triangle Project — a Cape Town-based gay and lesbian advocacy organisation.
Icelandic pop princess and noise terrorist Björk is dancing to a tribal beat, writes Lloyd Gedye.
A new exhibition documents the lives of people in polluted environments, writes Niren Tolsi.
A motivational essay by Sharon Farr gives the filmmaker’s reasons for making a documentary about Bram Fischer. Here is an extract.