Mboniso Sigonyela The R377-million purchase of Kagiso’s media assets by rival empowerment group New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) could leave the latter in contravention of the Broadcasting Act. The acquisition gives Nail’s media arm, New Africa Media (NAM), effective control of at least three private stations, Jacaranda (77,7%), Kfm (70%) and East Coast Radio (90%) […]

Neil Sonnekus Film & Television Two new documentaries one on cinema screens and the other to be screened on TV look into South Africa’s tortured past. The results are varied. Long Night’s Journey into Day tells the stories of four cases that appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the Amy Biehl, Matthew Goniwe, Robert […]

Fiona Macleod One of less than 500 East African black rhinos left in the world is due to be killed near Johannesburg in a ”canned” hunt because conservationists can’t agree on what else to do with her. The rhino cow was brought to South Africa 12 years ago as part of an ambitious endangered species […]

Inspired by the one-man presidential show in Zimbabwe, playwright Brett Bailey went in search of Idi Amin, the charismatic Ugandan general who burst on to the African stage with his military regime 30 years ago I had been thinking to do a play about Life President Field Marshal Doctor Idi Amin Dada in 1999, having […]

BARRY STREEK, Cape Town | Friday Property crimes, such as robbery and theft, increased last year and in the first quarter of this year, but the murder rate went down, the first official crime statistics since July last year show. The figures, released this week after an 11-month moratorium on the publication of crime statistics […]

SOUTH Africa does not intend to petition the United States to save a Tanzanian convicted over US embassy bombings from possible execution, the justice ministry said on Wednesday. “The matter is in the hands of the United States now. We can’t dictate terms to the US,” said ministry representative Paul Setsetse. South Africa’s Constitutional Court […]

CONGO Brazzaville, one of the world’s most indebted countries, is expecting a reprieve of $60m under an emergency programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the private weekly “Tam-Tam d’Afrique” has reported. A decision on the programme is expected to be taken by the IMF in a “few days” time, the paper reported. But according […]

THE Strijdom monument in Pretoria has collapsed dramatically into parking garages beneath the square in which it sat. The cave-in, according to 702 radio news, occurred at around 4.30am on Thursday morning. Rescue units from around Gauteng, including dog units, are on the scene. But so far, the number of trapped victims or deaths, if […]

GHANAS parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to scrap June 4 as a public holiday known as Rawlings Day. The holiday marked the day in 1979 when retired president Jerry Rawlings, then a young Air Force pilot, first tasted power as a head of state in the West African country. – Pana