Ghosts of electricity CDs of the week Bob Dylan:Love and Theft; The Essential Bob Dylan Shaun de Waal The first track on Bob Dylan’s new album, Love and Theft (Columbia), makes one fear the worst. Hearing Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, with its careless rhymes and silly metaphors, you think: Oh no, not another Under […]

Mail & Guardian reporter A fragile truce held Thursday in the Nigerian city of Jos after a week of street battles between Muslims and Christians left more than 500 people dead. Fighting flared on Tuesday after Muslim residents in the city’s Nassarawa district came out to celebrate the attacks in the United States. Community and […]

Being a good neighbour is the strategy the United Statess should embrace, writes David Le Page The rhetoric of war arrived within minutes, though war of any kind is unlikely to make Americans much safer. “We will hunt down and punish those responsible,” said United States President George Bush shortly after Tuesday’s attacks on the […]

Glenda Daniels The government failed to show up at a crucial tripartite meeting to negotiate the country’s industrial strategy at National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) earlier this week. This comes hot on the heels of the anti-privatisation strike, when labour and the government attacked each other for inadequate consultation. Nedlac and the Congress […]

Paul Kirk A can of coke for R12,50. An 8km taxi ride for R200. These aren’t the prices one can expect in 2050, they were the prices charged and paid in Durban until last weekend. Within a day after the delegates attending the World Conference against Racism left Durban, prices crashed. During the conference a […]

Glenda Daniels In a major departure, the government has suggested incentives, rather than penalties, to induce farmers to observe a new minimum wage for farm workers. Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana announced proposals for minimum rates for close to a million agricultural employees this week, ranging from R400 to R750 a month. They are the […]

The clothes at this year’s Fashion Week were creative and youthful, more wearable and affordable Charl Blignaut Bustling through the doors two shows late and already out of breath on the first day of Fashion Week, you’ve got to wonder how there can be next to nothing going down in Jo’burg for weeks on end […]

Chris Roper 3rd I Gallery, 95 Waterkant Street. Telling Tales is a group exhibition of narrative art work, art based on the classic theme of telling a story. The exhibition showcases art in a wide range of media and includes work by artists such as Lien Botha, Kevin Brand, Randy Hartzenberg, Peter van Straten, Arlene […]

Alex Sudheim African Art Centre, first floor, Tourist Junction, 160 Pine Street. One of Durban’s top contemporary art galleries hosts a showcase of KwaZulu-Natal artistic talent titled Asibuke Abantu: Looking at People, an exhibition featuring the work of 31 invited artists. Some of the artists are well-known painters Sfiso ka-Mkame, George Msimang, Carl Roberts and […]

KathrynSmith 65 Galway Road, Parkview, Johannesburg. Opening on September 28 at 6pm for a very short run, Carol Lee presents Incidental Landscapes, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Carl Becker. Thereafter, it’s open all day on September 29 and 30 with viewing by appointment from October 1 to 3. Tel: 486 0526. African […]