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 […]
Highlights from the Department of Finance briefing presented to Cabinet ministers in August 1999: l “The South African government is fully exposed to the depreciation of the rand against foreign currencies, which account for about 75% of the total purchase amount. There is no effective means of hedging the currency risk inherent in the procurements.” […]
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 […]
Michelle Matthews Alliance Franaise, 155 Loop Street. Steve Daly, a twotime Emmy Awardwinning documentary producer for CNN, presents images from Nepal and Tibet. Until April 31. Tel: 423 5699. Arts Association of Bellville, Library Centre, Carel van Aswegen Street, Bellville. Cristina Bryer holds a ceramics exhibition, called Sacred Geometry, in the Vestibule Gallery. The association […]
Alex Sudheim Art Engine Studio, Lost World nursery, Ramsgate. This exciting new art space on the South Coast of KwaZuluNatal opens its inaugural exhibition on Friday April 27. The Children’s Story is a remarkable and inspiring exhibition of 100 images created by children in the ghetto of Terezin in World War II Prague. Appropriately opening […]
Thuli Nhlapo Angry residents of Msawawa informal settlement near Kya Sands this week expressed their disappointment in the justice system and vowed to take the law into their own hands. This follows a shocking incident two weeks ago where Douglasdale police allegedly set a suspected rapist free, claiming he jumped through a window. “The women […]