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 […]
More than a party girl Caroline Sullivan Philadelphia-born Alicia “Pink” Moore views this second album as a “mind-opening” outing that will distinguish her from the glut of girl-pop clones (Mya, for instance, a collaborator on her number-one single Lady Marmalade). Bearing that in mind, she should drop the giggly exclamation marks used instead of I’s […]
Emma Gordon Blass Online learning is the ideal way for mature students to further their education If you are over 25 and considering returning to university to requalify or to get an advanced degree in your professional area, then e-learning was invented with you in mind. What is e-learning and why is it targeting adult […]
Hilary Footitt Suddenly, after September 11, we hear commentators noting with shock that only 10% of the CIA’s Middle Eastern desk could actually speak Arabic. Academics express concern that British expertise in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies is dangerously low and cannot provide us with the sort of guidance we may need to influence the […]
2 Rollout will continue: The govern-ment said it would continue with its roll-out of anti-retroviral drugs in state hospitals regardless of the outcome of the Constitutional Court. The minister of health’s representative, Sibani Mngadi, said the government was not challenging the roll-out of nevirapine, but “the powers of a judge to decide on how government […]
Alex Sudheim 330, 330 Point Road. The hardest, fastest club in the country continues to prove that it still has what it takes to push the pleasure buttons of Durban’s hardcore party freaks and seduce every hedonist in town on a Saturday night. Since it opened in 1988, Durban’s first and perennially foremost rave repository […]
How can higher education policies be shaped to support Nepad, asks Richard A Fehnel Two recent news items cause one to ask whether South African higher education is missing “the big picture” which, from one perspective, is how to deal with the future of Africa. African leaders came to an agreement last year that the […]
In a statement released on April 17 Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon declares that his party has shown “tremendous growth in Alex”, achieving a “substantial increase in support in Alexandra” when their candidate in the by-election managed to obtain 15,2% of the vote, “up from 4,2% in 2000”. What Mr Leon fails to mention is […]
Thabo Mohlala The University of the North West is offering courses in conflict resolution and the preservation of indigenous knowledge systems Conflicts and wars occur with such regularity in Africa that the continent urgently needs innovative methods and mechanisms to improve its chances of stemming a rampant culture of self-annihilation. Angolans have been tearing one […]
New technology may signal the end of computer screens as we know them, writes David Shapshak When Apple boss Steve Jobs introduced the new iMac, which has a built-on flat panel monitor, he used an interesting phrase: “The death of the CRT.” The CRT, or cathode ray tube, is the technology that has powered our […]