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.
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. ”.
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.
Alex Dodd finds herself moved to dark acts of terrorism by a display of flower-arranging set to music.
The Nederlands Dans Theater’s premier company is breathtaking – but less innovative than Andrew Putter expected.
A misunderstanding led to media reports that five professors from the University of Pretoria were being held hostage at a bio-diesel plant in a village outside Mafikeng, police said on Tuesday. The professors had apparently gone to the plant in Tontonyane village to fetch trees for their research project when confusion ensued.
A R2,1-billion contract for the construction of Cape Town’s 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium was on Tuesday awarded to a joint venture between Murray & Roberts and WBHO. The award, made by the city council’s bid adjudication committee, clears the way for the contractors to move on site.