The "worst excesses" of Nazism and communism? That type of throwaway comparison with apartheid is becoming all too prevalent in a world that is beginning to forget about the true horrors of those systems.
Cartoons, DVD piracy, angry right-wing pixies and the future of the VCR all come under Fraser’s scalpel this week.
Exciting new South African feature films star at the festival, backing 2003’s Standard Bank Young Artist award-winner <b>Dumisani Phakhati’s</b> major retrospective. This is only the third time in the long history of the awards that one has gone to a filmmaker.
Ranging from post avant-garde video installations to the figurative oils of an Eastern Cape Old Master, the exhibitions for Festival 2003 use different visual languages to articulate similar preoccupations with identity and belonging.
Something for everyone, is the mission statement of a programme designed as a total experience for the music-lover.
The National Arts Festival has attracted two additional sponsors, it announced last week. The National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF) has committed a R10,5-million sponsorship to be paid over three years.
Eleven new and recent plays, all written by Southern Africans, feature on the theatre programme.
"Home at last and proud to be South African", says the programme of the 2003 National Arts Festival, which runs from 27 June to 5 July 2003 in Grahamstown, heart of the Eastern Cape.
Only brave property developers are inclined to attempt new developments, or redevelopments, in economically decaying city centres. This is likely
to be the case in South Africa, despite the government’s recently announced incentives to property owners and developers.
Homoeroticism is despised by most heterosexual men because it seems to challenge their own heterosexuality — and Bismarck Masangu’s column ("A little wet dream problem", March 14) is typical.