Peter van Heerden’s wild performances that include branding lend new meaning to the term historical angst. Alex Sudheim attends his current retrospective.
Vonani Bila pays tribute to acclaimed South African wood sculptor John Mehwana Mehlwana Baloyi.
The Northern Cape provincial minister for finance and economic affairs, Pakes Dikgetsi, appeared in court on Friday on domestic violence-related charges, police confirmed. Spokesperson Superintendent Mashay Gamieldien confirmed his arrest, also on Friday, and court appearance in Kimberley.
Six months after suspending aid to Ethiopia on democracy concerns, two of the impoverished nation’s top donors agreed on Friday to put much of that money to education and health projects. The World Bank and Britain said they had redirected a total of more than -million from suspended support to programmes to help the poorest in Ethiopia over the next two years.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Friday questioned the wisdom of Lulu Xingwana’s appointment as Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister. ”As Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy, Xingwana achieved little aside from her racist and xenophobic diatribes in Parliament, which were viewed with alarm by both local and foreign investors,” Leon said in his weekly newsletter.
I have never been nasty and respect others’ property. I have had a nasty individual key-walk my car from one end to the other.” From a second-hand Ford Grenada to two top-of-the-range BMWs, Schabir Shaik shares his motoring experiences with Sukasha Singh.
Roger Federer gained an early psychological edge in his eagerly awaited French Open duel against Rafael Nadal when he enjoyed the lion’s share of fortune in Friday’s draw. The world number one, bidding to become the first man in 37 years to hold all four Grand Slam titles, was handed a comfortable-looking passage to the quarterfinals.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai called on the United Nations on Friday to intervene in his homeland’s political and economic crises. The Zimbabwean government has rejected UN involvement, saying Secretary General Kofi Annan need not make a long-planned visit.
East Timor’s capital was returning to normal on Friday after Australian troops took to the streets to restore order and stop bloody clashes between the Timorese military and rebel soldiers. One day after some of the worst violence since independence in 2002 left at least 15 people dead, residents of Dili began leaving their houses.
A Greek inquiry into a mid-air collision between Greek and Turkish fighter planes this week blamed Turkish pilot error, a Greek official said on Friday, as the country confirmed the death of its pilot. The Turkish plane ”rammed into the Greek aircraft overhead following a wrong manoeuvre by the Turkish pilot”, a top defence ministry official said.