Omar Badsha’s Grey Street in black-and-white.
Themba Mkhize, appearing at the Joy of Jazz festival, speaks to Thebe Mabanga.
Sipho Gumede, appearing at the Joy of Jazz festival, speaks to Thebe Mabanga.
Athol Fugard’s plays have tackled every hidden corner of life under the grossest of sociopolitical orders, creating as he went a record of inestimable value, writes Guy Willoughby.
ZIMBABWE is to import 100_000 tons of maize from neighbouring South Africa in a bid to avert a looming food shortage, Zimbabwean Agriculture Minister Joseph Made said on Monday. The 100_000 tons will be stored away until April or May 2002, when the county’s maize stocks are expected to run out, the minister said in […]
Johannesburg | Monday THE Zimbabwe government on Sunday said a story in the British Sunday Telegraph alleging that President Robert Mugabe had hatched a plan to expel white farmers from the country before next year’s presidential polls amounted to “idiocy”. Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said he preferred not to comment on such “idiocy” because doing […]
Lisbon | Sunday AN attack by armed men against a bus carrying about 100 passengers caused an undetermined number of fatalities and left about 12 people injured, Portugal’s Lusa news agency said on Sunday. The attack took place on Friday near Cacolo, about 30 kilometres from the town of Malange, capital of the province of […]
TUNISIAN human rights activist and torture victim Said Ferjani on Saturday condemned the appointment of General Habib Ammar as head of the committee organising the Mediterranean Games as “an insult to all victims of his torture.” “It is an insult to all honest people, to all victims, that a torturer could head such an organization,” […]
Johannesburg | Monday THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) on Sunday suspended “until further notice” a crippling three-week strike in the automobile industry, after employers agreed to raise wages by nine percent. Numsa’s secretary general Silumko Nondwangu told a press conference that “substantive progress has been made in reaching an agreement”. Nondwangu […]
NILE floods in Sudan have destroyed hundreds of homes and left thousands of families homeless this flood season. The worst affected area was River Nile State in northern Sudan where 1 102 families were left without shelter when floods tore down 577 homes in 55 villages and partially damaged 811 others, the civil defence report […]