The festival failedto connect to its major market of young, single Afrikaners who floodinto the UK in their thousands Adam Welz in London London’s Afrikaans community arranged its first major singing and dancing arts and crafts get-together here last week. UKkasie, billed as the first Afrikaans cultural festival to be held outside South Africa, took […]
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Enemy at the Gates mixes imagination and truth, writes James Meek.
Some works are fantastical, some are quasi-realist portraits, some are whimsically kitsch and some are abstract, writes Chris Roper.
Two years ago David Beresford visited the set of <i>The King is Alive</i>, the Dogme 95 film that opened at cinemas last week.
In his new CD, Zim Ngqawana, perhaps our leading new jazz composer, continues to meld tradition and innovation to create a specifically South African sound. As he notes in the booklet, among other "aphorizims", <i>Zimphonic Suites</i> (Sheer Sound) is about "harmony between antiquity and modernity".
The depiction of the siege is a masterpiece of cinematic versimilitude, all grey mud and shattered buildings, highlighted now and again by a red flag — or a splash of blood, writes Shaun de Waal.
FOUR Tanzanian teenagers, who went missing at an international scouting convention in Virginia, have turned up in Washington, turned themselves in to police and now are seeking political asylum, authorities here said on Tuesday. “The four boy scouts … have been found safe and unharmed,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in a statement. […]
CHRISTOF MALETSKY, Windhoek | Thursday THE South African Broadcasting Corporation last night apologised to President Sam Nujoma for quoting him out of context in a documentary programme aired last month. The programme Special Assignment broadcast an apology for the “very serious journalistic error” which was read out by the presenter. The text of the apology […]
Cape Town | Thursday THE South African Navy icebreaker Outeniqua was racing Wednesday to remote Marion Island, 1_100km southeast of Cape Town, to aid two seriously ill members of a weather service expedition, officials said. The icebreaker, expected to arrive late Friday or early Saturday, has a fully equipped hospital on board, complete with operating […]