Alexander Sudheim The considerable musical ability of Zulu Princess Magogo has been brought to the stage In 1900, Mntwana Constance Magogo kaDinuzulu was born to King Dinuzulu KaCetshwayo in Nongoma, Zululand. The year marked the beginning of one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the Zulu people, one whose trials and tribulations […]
Bongani Majola Sama 8, the eighth South African Music Awards, takes on a ground- breaking spin this weekend with a two-day extravaganza of fashion, cross-genre live performances and, of course, plenty of gossip. The recently concluded, rather fruitless inter-Congolese dialogue brought about the change of venue from the regular Sun City deal to the 900-seater […]
Bongani Majola Many aspirant students of engineering do not qualify for admission into study the first time around due to their weak educational background. Technikon Pretoria has devised a second-chance programme, the Technology Access Programme, for students with sufficient potential to master an engineering course but are “handicapped by a poor schooling system”. Every applicant […]
Guy Willoughby Q&A GRAHAMWEIR Letters from Patient Essop began life as part of a larger show with the Elastic Band. Now it’s a complete musical play on its own. Explain this gestation? Essop has found its proper space and feels more complete now. I am not as emotionally linked to the mat- erial as I […]
Finding reliable information about programme quality and accreditation is an area of the transnational education road map that still needs to be drawn. Those interested in online degree programmes can start by looking at general reference publications for distance education, such as the Bear’s Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning (www.degree.net). Information about the […]
I refer to the article “Megapark threatened” (April 26). Indeed Minister of Enviromental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa did promise undeliverables with regard to the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, but I’d like to suggest that a certain stakeholder group got him to stick his neck out on its behalf (for fences to be lifted […]
David Shapshak Samsung SyncMaster 151s. This Samsung flat panel monitor reminds me of Ally McBeal. It’s thin and sexy. The only difference is nobody seems to hate it like they hate the TV show. It’s not a good comparison though. The monitor has no neurosis it worked perfectly from the moment I plugged it in. […]
Margaret Legum Against Global Apartheid: South Africa Meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance by Patrick Bond (UCT Press) University of the Witwaters- rand Professor Patrick Bond is one of South Africa’s most ruthless and meticulous analysts and critics of the neo-liberal international economic paradigm, especially as it applies in South Africa. There are […]
Stephen Gray This is the cultural item I had been told not to miss. They had said: “Stay at the Nest Mountain Resort hotel in the Central Berg. Their staff will get you there on time, along the remaining 7km up the Champagne Valley. There the Drakensberg Boys’ Choir School has its own auditorium and […]
Alex Sudheim Adams Books and Coffee Shop, Musgrave Centre. Durban’s Live Poets’ Society has been meeting monthly for more than eight years, with its next rendezvous taking place at this coffee-scented literary enclave on Wednesday May 8 at 5.30pm. The guest presenter is celebrated poet Kobus Moolman, who has just been awarded the prestigious Ingrid […]