Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION Craig Matthews’s excellent documentary Of Ochre andWater:Himba Chronicles from the Land of Kaoko, was about the threat to the cultural, religious and social traditions, the very substance, of Namibia’s Himba people by the proposed construction of a vast dam on the Kunene river. Ergo, hydroelectricity for Windhoek. Matthews says that his involvement […]
Barry Streek and Paul Kirk The Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete says more than 152 000 rapes and attempted rapes in South Africa were reported to the police in the three years between 1997 and 1999 almost 140 a day. Most reported rapes and attempted rapes per province took place in Gauteng, 36 […]
Marianne Merten ‘We dedicate our lives to peace. I’m not prepared to go back to the bush for any reason,” says Yazir Henri, who heads a self-help initiative of former liberation fighters in Cape Town. The Direct Action Centre for Peace and Memory was established last month to provide support for former combatants and their […]
Pule waga Mabe Some South African politicians backed this week’s controversial Civil Society Initiative (CSI) conference, despite the call by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and other civil society formations for a boycott. Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota was among those invited to speak who didn’t show up. But among those who […]
Short Cuts Bedazzled. Like Ally McBeal, very thin and quite funny. With Elizabeth Hurley. Billy Elliot. Marvellous tale of a workingclass boy who wants to be a ballet dancer. Bounce. Terrible romance that should have been called Boring. Starring Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Broken Hearts Club. A group of gay men negotiate that […]
Barry Streek Five remote Richtersveld communities, whose claim for the return of land on the Cape West Coast near the Gariep river was recently rejected by the Land Claims Court, have submitted an application to appeal to the Constitutional Court. Their application says the appeal raises constitutional issues of substance on which a ruling by […]
Olympic Group was the final yacht to sail into Cape Town to complete the fifth leg of the BTGlobal Challenge Marianne Merten ‘If you let the position ruin it you are actually losing the plot. We are learning about ourselves, working together, communicating,” says Olympic Group skipper Manley Hopkinson about participating in the BT Global […]
This time we ask this question in the knowledge that it is on the lips of many South Africans, many of them dedicated members of the ANC, SACP and the trade unions … Whether in his dealings with the Aids crisis surely the greatest threat ever to the country his timidity over Zimbabwe, or his […]
Yvette Gresl On June 16 1976 groups of Soweto schoolchildren took to the streets to protest against Bantu education and Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. Police, sent to the township to suppress the uprising, opened fire. The shooting of protestor Hector Petersen was poignantly captured in one of South Africa’s most publicised press photographs, […]
After the drama of the Test series, the Proteas go on a whistle-stop one-day tour of the islands Peter Robinson With the highbrow stuff out of the way now, South Africa and the West Indies go downmarket for the next two-and-a-half weeks in a seven-match one-day international series that starts in Jamaica on Saturday before […]