The voices of local poets are about to be heard beyond the confines of smoky downtown clubs, writes Riekje Pelgrim.
Bad sex, betrayal, over-spending and hate speech were some of the low-lights of the cultural year.
We asked some of South Africa’s hottest celebrities about their best and worst moments and their favourite acquisitions over the past year.
Jo’burg’s leading symphony orchestra the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra is to get a R500 000 shot in the arm from the corporate sector.
Denis Hirson’s <i>We Walk Straight So You Better Get Out the Way</i> is a funny, moving and tender book. It ultimately tells us more about our country than many a more obviously serious work, writes Pat Schwartz.
Just four weeks ago Themba Sibanda — who is HIV-positive — was brought to Mpilo government hospital almost lifeless after suffering from a severe bout of malaria. A doctor quickly prescribed a chloroquine course that had Sibanda on his feet after just two days. But Sibanda’s luck ran out this week when he returned to Mpilo. He was turned away because there were no doctors at the hospital,
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera has set a theatrical record, becoming the longest-running show in Broadway history.
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Israel will continue its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas until two soldiers are freed and rocket strikes end, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday told United Nations envoys. Israeli jets hit Lebanese army bases and flattened homes in a deadly new blitz of air strikes on Tuesday, the seventh day of an assault that has killed at least 240 people.
A member of the public shot dead one robber and residents nabbed another two in separate incidents in Pretoria on Tuesday, police said. In the first incident in Pretoria North, a man shot at two alleged robbers as they were trying to hijack a vehicle at the Kolonnade Shopping Centre, said spokesperson Constable Brenda Kgafela.