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/ 24 February 2002
FRENCH legislation which will allow for the repatriation of the remains of Saartjie Baartman will be debated in the lower house of the French Parliament on Thursday, Arts, Culture, Science and Technology Ministry representative Andile Xaba said. The department’s deputy minister Brigitte Mabandla would travel to France to witness the outcome of the motion to […]
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/ 24 February 2002
A SOUTH African soldier was shot dead by a countryman and two others were wounded in Burundi on Wednesday night, the SA National Defence Force announced on Thursday. It said the incident happened at the Sandf base in Bujumbura after an argument between two members of the South African contingent doing duty in the Burundian […]
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/ 24 February 2002
ZIMBABWE would not allow journalists working for the Independent Newspapers group to cover the presidential election in that country, a Zimbabwean government official said on Thursday. ”We would not include such a paper,” said Eddie Mamutse, a representative in the Information Ministry where applications for accreditation to cover the polls are processed. He said the […]
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/ 23 February 2002
Luanda | Saturday THE Angolan government has announced that rebel leader Jonas Savimbi was killed on Friday in fighting with government forces in the central-eastern province of Moxico. Angolan presidential representative Aldemiro da Conceicao told Portuguese private radio TSF in an interview that Savimbi’s body was now in government hands and would soon be shown […]
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/ 22 February 2002
Andile Yenana’s first CD, to be launched this Saturday, draws on the works of avant garde bassist Johnny Dyani, writes Meshack Mabogoane.
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/ 22 February 2002
The death of Patrice Lumumba still echoes like a prophecy. What does independence mean in a world where economic and military blocs confront one another? What does democracy mean when conflicts have replaced public debates to conceal conflicts of interest? Filmmaker Raoul Peck writes about the making of <i>Lumumba</i>.
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/ 22 February 2002
Fiona Macleod and Suzan Chala Businessman Cyril Ramaphosa joins deputy president of the National Union of Mineworkers Chrosby Moni on the board of trustees that will oversee the multimillion-rand payout to victims of Cape plc asbestos mines. The board, announced this week, includes retiring British lawyer Sarah Leigh OBE, two doctors who cannot be named […]
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/ 22 February 2002
Behold the post-apartheid hetero male! Guy Willoughby examinines a brace of comedies in Cape Town about male discontents Try cross-referencing two genre-teasing comedies that announce new routes for Coloured masculine identity: Coco Merckel’s autobiographical No Room for Squares and the Oscar Petersen/David Isaac/Heinrich Reisenhofer collaboration, Meet Joe Barber, third in a wildly popular trilogy about […]
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/ 22 February 2002
Comment Greg Mills and Tim Hughes Pretoria has responded predictably to the imposition of European Union sanctions on Zimbabwe, describing them as “regrettable and unfortunate”. President Robert Mugabe has called the act “disgraceful” and “illegal”. Both might well have added “inevitable” given the nature of unfolding events. After all, the past 18 months have seen […]
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/ 22 February 2002
The finance minister’s Budget is going to bring greater misery analysis Nigel Bruce If the economy had been growing at 5% or more, a United States dollar cost R5 or less and a million jobs had been created instead of lost over the past five years, the national Budget presented to Parliament this week by […]