What happened to South Africa’s avant-garde? Following the recent New Music Indaba, Mary Rörich contemplates the relevance of international musical styles in cotemporary South Africa.
Fifty more workers were retrenched on Thursday as the new plastic bag regulations continued to take their toll on jobs in the industry.
The South African retail petrol price is likely to see a rise of some 20 cents per litre (c/l) on August 6.
<b>Movie of the week</b>
<i>Bulletproof Monk</i> is a finely tuned spoof of martial action movies, writes Shaun de Waal.
Government attempts to enforce price controls on key foods triggered a showdown with producers on Friday and was expected to plunge the collapsing economy deeper into crisis.
A British Ministry of Defence adviser on weapons of mass destruction, named by the government as the possible source for a disputed news report on Iraqi arms, has been reported missing by his family, police said on Friday.
World-renowned disaster experts on Friday declared the devastating crisis that is crippling Ethiopia a famine.
Members of Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) two main rebel groups who were due to be sworn in as ministers in a landmark transition government Friday have refused to take the oath of office, an official from one of the rebel movements said.
Faced by a slump in sales in the first half of the year, Beaujolais winegrowers who depend on exports for around half their turnover, are hoping that forecasts of an exceptional 2003 harvest will come true.
The military coup d’etat in Sao Tome and Principe on Wednesday underlined the challenge the African continent continued to face regarding defence and entrenchment of democracy, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.