Thebe Mabanga The Windybrow Centre for the Arts in Hillbrow unveiled its 22nd Arts Festival on Wednesday by painting a mural paying tribute to fallen artists from Matsemela Manaka to Fats Dibeko as well as pianist Moses Molelekwa and Margaret Singana. In many ways the tribute represents the best way for Windybrow to survive: drawing […]

James Hall The Swazi government is planning to build an international airport to increase tourism in the process sacrificing a large proportion of the game the tourists will be coming to see. The proposed R1,4-billion Millennium Airport near Mpaka in eastern Swaziland will be next to the Hlane and Mkhaya game parks, ”the two most […]

China in your hand Matthew Krouse Tony Cox’s latest album,China (Sheer Sound), is a tribute to his buddies. In the sleeve note about the title track he tells us that he’s called this work China because ”some friends are as precious and … fragile as china.” Cox’s chinas are also his collaborators, and so there […]

Thousands of people who applied for pensions more than six months ago still have not received their grants Wisani wa ka Ngobeni Five Limpopo pensioners have launched a court action in the Pretoria High Court to force the provincial government to process the more than 164000 applications for social grants it has ”systematically” delayed. Court […]

Consumers may not know what they are eating as unlabelled GMO white maize becomes available to South Africans Roger Friedman Over the next few weeks farmers will begin harvesting South Africa’s first genetically modified white maize crop for human consumption. White maize is South Africa’s staple food. Consumers have not been told what they’ll soon […]

John O’Mahony meets director David Lynch Not far from Mulholland Drive, the Los Angeles thoroughfare that gives David Lynch’s latest film its title, and practically in the shadow of the infamous Hollywood sign, sits the complex of buildings where the director lives and works. The most striking is the huge pink bunker designed by the […]

Addis Ababa | Wednesday MEMBER states owed $54,6-million (62,4-million euros) to the Organisation of African Unity at the end of last year, the OAU announced on Tuesday. Some $34,6-million of the money owed is the result of payments due from years prior to 2001. Eleven countries belonging to the 53-member body are in arrears, he […]

STUART GRAHAM, Johannesburg | Friday WRONG perceptions, fear and speculation about BoE Bank’s R12-billion sale of its NBS home loan book to FirstRand caused the liquidity crisis at the bank, chief executive officer Tom Boardman said in Johannesburg on Thursday afternoon. He said in the wake of the Saambou crisis, some depositors worried because word […]