Thierry M Luescher Student activism is in limbo. The struggle is over and no new driving force has emerged. HIV/Aids, poverty, unemployment, education, housing, crime, nation-building … students know that these are the issues. However, when asked what they do about them, there is silence. “I use condoms,” one might say, and many smirk or […]
Suzan Chala and Jaspreet Kindra Anti-privatisation protests could embarrass the government In a surprise move reminiscent of last year’s anti-privatisation protests during the Durban racism conference, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is calling for a civil society-led, anti-privatisation campaign in August this year. Johannesburg will host the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development […]
What is the origin of the phrase “draconian laws”? Named after Draco, the ancient Athenian statesman whose penal code made his name a byword for severity. Steven Davies, Cape Town What exactly (in biochemical terms) are the “toxins” that so many diet regimes aim to “flush out” of our systems, usually by semi-starvation for a […]
Riaan Wolmarans Barbarellos, Illovo Square, Oxford Road, Illovo. V-Sessions presents DJRudi playing deep and jazzy house on Tuesdays from 9pm. It’s R20 with a free cocktail if you register on www.verge.co.za. Bassline, 7 Seventh Street, Melville. Wessel vanRensburg performs onFridayMay 3 and Moses Khumalo is on stage on Saturday May 4 and Sunday May 5 […]
THE governor of a fourth Madagascan province has announced his territory’s independence in protest over the proclamation of Marc Ravalomanana as president, officials said on Friday.
This week’s unexpected Cabinet announcement clearly signals a shift in South Africa’s policy on the treatment of HIV/Aids, and it would be churlish not to praise the government.
There are some interesting acts of communal memory happening in Cape Town from the Cape Town-boy-makes-good Mark Shuttleworth’s Sixty-Six Shit-Hot Sunsets to the tiny, organised, and impressive Holocaust Museum.
I OFTEN see them when I’m having a morning cappuccino in my favourite Melville coffee shop. It seems to be a man’s job only, for it’s only men I’ve seen. They vary from young and strong to much older and more fragile, but they have one thing in common…
More than a decade after the Market Photography Workshop was founded, a publication has been launched that illustrates the changing face of South African photography. Yazeed Kamaldien reports Newtown’s Market Photography Workshop was started in 1989, and in reaction to the constraints of apart- heid it threw together people from all walks of life teaching […]
theatre Matthew Krouse African Bank Market Theatre, Newtown Cultural Precinct. Celebrity director Mbongeni Ngema revives his Eighties masterpiece and Tony Award-nominee Asinamali! The cast combines new and original cast members, including Thami Cele, Bongani Hlope, Bheki Mqadi, Bhoyi Ngema and Ntusi Gordon. Until May 5. Book at Computicket. Tel: 832 1641. Barney Simon Theatre, African […]