Andries Oliphant speaks to Thebe Mabanga about a blueprint for development of the arts through corporate funding The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) has done well but has a number of key areas to improve on, believes Andries Oliphant. “We set out to establish a sustainable trust whose funding benefit will be available in perpetuity […]

Jaspreet Kindra “I have never been HIV-positive. I have never had Aids. It was part of a propaganda plot,” says Peter Mokaba, who read reports in some newspapers last year about his death. The former deputy minister of environmental affairs and tourism, who was dropped by President Thabo Mbeki from his ministerial berth after the […]

Women flocked to a Johannesburg hotel recently to learn how to solve their bedroom woes Mail & Guardian reporter South African husbands, partners or lovers would probably have loved to be a fly on the wall on the Park Hyatt hotel ballroom in Rosebank, Johannesburg, on Tuesday night. The conversation over the foie gras and […]

Mail & Guardian reporter New filmmaker Benning Puren has been awarded funding for two projects by the Arts & Culture Trust. For the project Masjien, Puren has collaborated with designer Jaco van Heerden to create an accessible outlet format for young media artists. The two have dubbed themselves Berlin East (Puren) and Chloorbom (Van Heerden). […]

Africa’s most pressing need is not for schemes of pan-African unity, writes Stephen Ellis It is a variety that can grow to enormous size but is not good to eat. Amateur gardeners sometimes used to grow white elephant potatoes so they could win first prize at competitions by presenting these impressive-looking but useless lumps of […]

Ray Moodley, boss of the controversial security company at the centre of the Telkom scandal, has known Bheki Langa for a long time. Their relationship, he says, dates back to the ”struggle days”. Moodley this week hit back after a Telkom probe alleged collusion between his company, Durban-based Royal Security, and Langa, the deputy chief […]