The National Land Committee (NLC) is to vote on the closure of its national office. The relationship between the office and the NLC board, says its chairperson, has disintegrated.
The knives are out at the National Development Agency (NDA), with staff at the organisation insisting that a ministerially ordered investigation into employment irregularities and misuse of funds be transparent.
Video on demand — allowing people to download and view a film or TV programme whenever they wish, rather than wait for a broadcaster to show it, has been a dream for some time. And on September 5 the first full-length film to have its premiere on the Internet will go live, writes Guy Clapperton.
Matthew Krouse speaks to Rehad Desai about major works at the Three Continents Film Festival: Chilean exile Patricio Guzman’s The Pinochet Case; a documentary about kwaito called Scratched and Mixed ; and the controversial Sri Lankan epic In the Name of Budda.
Alastair Campbell has announced he is to leave his Downing Street job in a shock move mid-way through the Hutton inquiry.
Njabulo Ndebele’s first adult novel <i>The Cry of Winnie Mandela</i> transgresses the borders between fact and fiction, fusing aspects of the novel, biography and essay. It is a beautiful book, the writing lucid and quietly passionate, a work of deep intelligence, writes Chris Dunton.
Despite a few familiar Farah ‘tropes’, such familiar story material is manoeuvred freshly and adeptly here, indeed as if he had never attempted to squeeze the juice from it before. Stephen Gray dips into Nuruddin Farah’s latest work <i>Links</i>.
Sepultura means "sepulchre" in Portuguese, and the Brazilian metal supergroup certainly know how to dig a deep, dark grave to bury you alive in, writes Alexander Sudheim. The heavy metal group are on their way to shake SA.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> I usually steer clear of making the kind of comment one often hears about a good movie from Australia, New Zealand or the Third World. It goes like this: "Now that’s the kind of film we should be making in South Africa." Usually, writes Shaun de Waal.
An uplifting short film based on the classic <i>Heidi</i> is doing the rounds — but this time the little girl is African. The Alps are the hills of KwaZulu-Natal and the grandfather is replaced by a mother dying of Aids, writes Matthew Krouse.