AT least 18 people have been arrested in a rural district in southern Zimbabwe in pre-election violence that has left at least one person dead, police said. Among those held are members of both the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the ruling Zanu-PF. Political tension in the Bikita-West constituency has shot up since […]
SHAUN BENTON, Cape Town | Saturday THOUSANDS of banjo-strumming minstrels, complete with blackface, are shrugging off the traditional derogatory label of Coon Carnival in a two-week celebration they hope will rival the annual carnivals in Rio de Janeiro, Notting Hill, and New Orleans. The “klopse”, as they are known, compete for annual prizes, including the […]
Two women have made a prize-winning documentary about South Africa’s truth commission. They spoke to Andrew Worsdale.
American film-maker Lionel Rogosin, who died recently, made a classic South African film, Come Back, Africa. Peter Davis reminisces.
Letter to the Editor — Racism is essential to human behaviour.
Marianne Merten Several Western Cape residents in witness protection who are refusing to leave the province despite the Christmas murder of two state witnesses face the choice: relocate or leave the programme. The head of the Office for Witness Protection, Director Piet Kleynhans, said a decision on this handful of witnesses to Cape criminal trials, […]
Ian Penman Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-76 by Hunter S Thompson, edited by Douglas Brinkley (Bloomsbury) As a writer bin all that “cultural icon” stuff, all the cartoon strips and cocaine blizzards and Colorado screamin’ it is hard to see Hunter S Thompson as much more than […]
Thomas and the Magic Railroad. A mixture of live action, animation and modelling, Thomas and the Magic Railroad is an Americanised version of the British TV series based on the Reverend W Awdry’s children’s books. It’s whimsical stuff about the interaction of the railway (sorry, railroad) systems of a real community and a magical one […]
Ebrahim Harvey has written an extraordinary article in which he puts forward a number of dubious propositions.
Neal Collins soccer England’s bleak midwinter will enjoy a traditional post-New Year lift this weekend with the arrival of the Football Association Cup third round, comfortably the best weekend of mud-and-guts football to be found anywhere in the world. This is when the top clubs join the long road to erm … well, it was […]