SURVIVAL International, a world-wide organisation supporting tribal peoples, has intensified its battle with the government of Botswana over the situation of the Basarwa. In their annual report, published to coincide with the United Nations’ Day for Indigenous Peoples (9 August), the organisation has identified the most vulnerable tribe in each of three continents; Africa, Asia […]
SULPHURIC acid has accidentally spilled into the municipal water reservoir of Kitwe, Zambia’s second largest city in the northern Copperbelt mining region, a municipal official said on Wednesday. The spillage occurred after a train transporting the chemical derailed. Municipal authorities in Kitwe, 400 kilometres north of Lusaka, have shut down the water supplies to the […]
THERE was no cause for alarm at present but people including doctors, parents and teaching should be on the lookout for symptoms which could signal an outbreak of meningitis, the Western Cape health department said on Thursday. In the past week three people in the province have died of meningococcal meningitis. ”The department is issuing […]
TRAVELLERS from six African countries are to face tougher rules for entry into Malaysia in a fight against crime, reports said Thursday. The countries have not been named officially, but the New Straits Times said they were believed to be South Africa, Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria. A government official said the move was […]
THE body of a one-month-old baby girl, and a newborn baby, were found abandoned in the Pretoria area on Wednesday, police reported. Neither baby has been identified. The body was discovered by a passer-by in a refuse bag left beside the Ben Schoeman highway south of Pretoria. Inspector Percy Morokane said the baby had sustained […]
Promising Eastern and African culture combining in a mix of art, fashion and lifestyle, <i>ZuluSushi</i> has a short run at the new Millennium II gallery, writes Kathryn Smith
Six stages operated most of the day and night to accommodate bands and musicians from many genres — rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, folk, blues, punk, breakbeat, jungle and drum’n’bass, to name a few, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
Tricky has moved on from dark paranoia to wised-up positivity, writes Dave Simpson.
By comparison with that other recent historical (melo)drama <i>Thirteen Days</i> is scrupulously accurate and commendably intelligent, conveying very well the almost claustrophobic urgency of the situation, writes Shaun de Waal.
We should no longer refer to First and Third Worlds, but to regions that are hardwired to information flows, writes Dwayne Winseck New technology and patterns of investments shaping their deployment helped redraw the lines of world communication in the last decade of the 20th century. A highlight was, of course, the growth of the […]