‘Transman’ Robert Hamblin is no longer a woman, but he has always been an artist. He spoke to Shaun de Waal about his work and his journey.
Malick Sidibé offers an aesthetic, poignant and fresh representation of Mali, writes Bronwyn Law-Viljoen.
Over the years, women have adopted extreme fashions to convey wealth and status. Fanny Johnstone looks at history’s most torturous trends.
Inflation in Zimbabwe is soaring, and its citizens abroad are pitching in to help relatives at home — giving part of their earnings in South Africa, for example, to Zimbabwean businessmen there, who then truck food, cooking oil and other scarcities across the border. Now a high-tech solution has arrived, with internet-based companies allowing Zimbabweans across the globe to go online to buy their loved ones everything from fuel to food.
Former Pakistani cricket coach Bob Woolmer was not murdered but died of natural causes, Jamaican police said on Tuesday. Jamaica Constabulary Force Commissioner Lucius Thomas also ruled out match-fixing in relation to Woolmer’s death during the World Cup tournament in the Caribbean.
South Africa could experience a total economic shutdown on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands more public-sector workers join an ongoing strike in a pay dispute, labour unions warned on Tuesday. ”It’s going to be a total shutdown … in public services and the economy,” said Willie Madisha, president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
Delegates from 20 African countries began talks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday on the process of disarming and reintegrating former combatants to boost peace on the continent. The United Nations chose to hold the second international conference on disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration in the capital of the DRC.
The top floors of an office building under refurbishment next to Metropolitan Police headquarters in central London collapsed on Tuesday. ”We have one patient with minor injuries,” an ambulance service spokesperson said. Fire and ambulances services rushed to the brick building and cordoned off the area.
Former National Intelligence Agency director general Billy Masetlha was using ”evasive tactics” to avoid giving information to the inspector general of intelligence, the Hatfield Community Court heard on Tuesday. Masetlha is accused of contravening the Provisional Oversight Act by withholding evidence from Inspector General Zolile Ngcakani.
The Springboks and the Wallabies disappeared beneath the radar on Tuesday as they continued their preparations for Saturday’s opening Vodacom Tri-Nations encounter at Newlands. The two southern hemisphere protagonists, each looking to continue winning after successful starts to their 2007 international campaigns, held closed practice sessions in Cape Town.