Britain called on Tuesday for a "very robust international response" against the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government for its brutal crackdown on the opposition. "The situation is appalling. I condemn last Sunday’s beatings and arrest of opposition leaders," junior Foreign Office Minister David Triesman.
Michael Vlismas rates the major players in one of the fastest-growing industries.
In the mystically charged Grahamstown, more drama took place in the streets than on the stages and in the theatres, writes John Matshikiza.
Brett Bailey’s <i>The Prophet</i> is strange, crowd-pulling stuff. But Lauren Shantall finds it hard to be amazed yet again.
The success of the National Arts Festival is yet another demonstration of how we as South Africans can reach into the diversity of a past division and conflict, and transform it into a celebration of our richness and our unity within that diversity." It was with these words that Nelson Mandela officially opened the 25th Grahamstown festival around lunchtime today.
The Wedding is lewd, crude and honest to the bone. Alex Dodd loved it.
Alex Dodd finds herself moved to dark acts of terrorism by a display of flower-arranging set to music.
Gladwell Otieno is the executive director for the Africa Centre for Open Governance, based in Kenya. An uncompromising anti-corruption campaigner, she attended the Africa Forum on Fighting Corruption that recently took place in Johannesburg. Haydée Bangerezako spoke to her about continental anti-corruption efforts.
Tuberculosis cases are rising rapidly in the Mozambican coastal town of Beira, according to local doctors. The city of half a million, which is the capital of the country’s most HIV/Aids-affected province, logged 2 736 new TB cases last year, a 5% increase from 2005. ”.
The Nederlands Dans Theater’s premier company is breathtaking – but less innovative than Andrew Putter expected.