Art that mobilises is unsettling, and portraying pain to promote activism is brave. The Bonolo Botshelo Fragile Life, Art Doll Project, currently on at MuseuMAfricA, attempts to do this. Artists have worked collectively to evoke the experiences of abused children, writes Erica Emdon.
"I could tell you that we came back because we love the weather here…because you’ve got a beautiful country…but the real reason, " Adam Duritz told the crowd, "is because you’ve got such lovely women." Cue screaming crowd, one for the remark, two for the arrival of the American band Counting Crows, writes Nadia Neophytou.
Born out of the post-punk era of British New Wave, New Model Army has always been a mutable band, with issues and sounds that changed between albums, tours and interviews. But their prominent politics was not the original idea behind the formation of the act. Dave Chislett lends an ear.
Tourism South Africa performed ”very well” in 2003, despite global trends, Environment Affairs and Tourism Minister Valli Moosa said on Friday. Referring to recently released statistics, Moosa said South Africa did well last year, especially when compared to global markets.
Only a small number of Mozambique’s rural areas have toilets, while even fewer have access to protected water sources, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said on Friday. Unicef is highlighting Mozambique’s water problems on World Water Day 2004 on Monday, which focuses on water and disaster.
South Africa’s Meerlust Rubicon 1999 has been hailed as the best new world red wine in the March edition of well regarded US wine magazine <i>Decanter</i>, according to industry website winenews.co.za.
Serious corporate contraventions have racked the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Seta (Merseta), making it the latest in a long list of sector education and training authorities (Setas) to have been hit by allegations of financial mismanagement.
The National Development Agency (NDA) has appointed a new board of directors and a forensic investigation into its affairs is almost complete as the organisation seeks to forge a fresh and clean image for itself. The government last year instituted an investigation into the organisation after allegations of corruption.
A member of a leopard smuggling ring exposed by the Mail & Guardian has been given a stiff sentence by a Northern Cape magistrate for illegal trafficking in wildlife. A farmer based near Kakamas was caught in a sting operation coordinated by conservation officials and police.
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang this week bowed to the
inevitable and encouraged other provinces to follow the three that have started comprehensive treatment of HIV/Aids.