<b>Review:</b> African Theatre: Playwrights AND Politics edited by Martin Banham, James Gibbs and Femi Osofisan (James Currey/Indiana University Press/Witwatersrand University Press), by Rob Amato.
More than 70 representatives of the South African film industry attended a seminar by the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) in Johannesburg last week to iron out problems plaguing the trade, reports Andrew Worsdale.
Jazz at the Grahamstown festival might have been a pedestrian affair, but Gwen Ansell predicts, the Joy of Jazz festival will be anything but.
ADDITIONAL police and prison cells have been made available to police during the World Conference Against Racism to deal with offenders who ignored the strict security rules in place for the conference at the end of the month. KwaZulu-Natal police representative Director Bala Naidoo said a special court has also been established by the Justice […]
Johannesburg | Thursday RESERVE Bank Governor Tito Mboweni has blamed PAC secretary-general Thami ka Plaatjie and the Zimbabwean government for the slump in the rand, SABC radio news reports. In an off-the-cuff comment at an African investment seminar in Stellenbosch in the Western Cape, Mboweni said “the wheels had come off” in Zimbabwe. In a […]
A NORTHERN Province retiree known as the “transport man” because he earned extra money by collecting goods in his bakkie took his last trip on Monday. Two youths beat and stabbed 62-year-old Mkhatshana Mongolo to death in front of his 11-year-old grandson after hiring him to collect cement. His grandson ran to a nearby village […]
SOUTH African dignitaries lit an Olympic-style torch in Pretoria on Tuesday to symbolise their opposition to racism, as thousands of Muslims took to the streets of Cape Town to protest what they said was Israel’s continuing oppression of Palestinians. The two events came 10 days ahead of a UN-sponsored global conference on racism which will […]
Johannesburg | Thursday THE South African rand hit record lows against two major currencies on Wednesday, dashing hopes that the government might announce an interest rate cut next month. The besieged currency was trading at 12,26 to the pound sterling and 7,77 to the euro early on Wednesday. Late Tuesday, the rand recorded its lowest […]
SOUTH African rescue workers were elated after they towed a stranded whale out to sea on Sunday, but on Tuesday it beached itself again and died so they blew it up. The nine-metre long humpback whale first stranded itself off the southeastern city of Port Elizabeth in one metre of water for about six hours. […]
SIZWE SAMAYENDE, Pretoria | Thursday SOUTH Africa’s security forces and justice system prioritise crimes against farmers but ignore those against farm labourers, Human Rights Watch reported on Wednesday. The international organisation investigated the country’s volatile farming community last year and released a scathing 230-page report on Wednesday entitled “Unequal Protection: The State Response to Violent […]