Brasse vannie Kaap+s new album, Yskoud, heads into sakkie-sakkie and hard rock territory. Adam Haupt spoke to them before their Oppikoppi and Belgium missions It+s an unusually warm winter+s day in Cape Town and I+m hanging out in a chicken joint with Brasse vannie Kaap+s (BVK) Fat and Ready D. The Brasse were a tad […]
Ria Ledwaba+s dream of top-flight soccer has come true as her team, Ria Stars, are in the premier league Merryman Kunene Being the youngest child and the only daughter in the Rasebotsa family, Ria Ivy Ledwaba+s formative years were heavily influenced by her soccer-mad brothers – who either played for or supported Pietersburg+s most famous […]
Barry Streek A decade from now as many as 45 000 people in South African prisons could die every year from HIV/Aids and Aids-related diseases, according to the inspecting judge of prisons, Judge Hannes Fagan. He told a conference on crime and human rights at the University of Western Cape that five years ago 182 […]
They+ve come through two by two – South African heavyweights trying to win the world title Gavin Evans When Lennox Lewis entered the ring to the sounds of Bob Marley+s We+re Gonna Chase Those Crazy Baldheads Out of Town, you couldn+t miss the message: no place for White Hopes in this hood. Francois Botha+s demise […]
Cameron Duodu Letter from the North OMan, I admire this Governor [Ahmed] Sani of Zamfara [State of Nigeria]. He just goes ahead and does his things without any noise-making preambles declares sharia, flies prostitutes to Mecca, cuts off someoneOs hand, summons 2 000 beggars, supplies 100 donkeys to supplement okadas [motor-bike taxis], promises to flog […]
Investigators at the Independent Complaints Directorate this week began fitting together the pieces of the puzzle around Bheki MkhizeOs death Paul Kirk and Niki Moore African National Congress MP Bheki Mkhize, killed in a police raid on his home at Mahlabathini, near Ulundi, was shot through his open palm an indication, say the provincial ANC […]
conferencesO Jaspreet Kindra The Pan-Africanist Congress has criticised the organising of the National Conference on Racism, which begins at the end of this month. According to the PAC, racism is Otoo deep- rootedO to be handled by Osuperficial mechanisms which provide short-term solutionsO and cost millions of rand. OIt is time to descend from platforms […]
Pule waga Mabe As technikons try to redefine themselves as universities of technology, some institutions are encountering problems likely to hamper their progress. Irregularities and outstanding charges of maladministration and racism are threatening a number of technikons. This, according to some technikon officials, may damage smooth mergers in line with the recommendations of the Council […]
Making money is not all the owners of African Harvest are interested in they also believe in fulfilling their corporate responsibility Mail & Guardian reporter New chip rather than blue chip is how the black empowerment company African Harvest sees itself. OWe are a new South Africa company,O says executive chair Mashudu Ramano. OWe are […]
Barbara Ludman and Mungo Soggot LIFESTYLE Not so long ago, Greenside+s main shopping parade was known not for haute cuisine but for several antique shops, the Spar, Woolworths and -the doggy stylist+. The suburb, however, is currently undergoing something of a gastronomic renaissance, with three new restaurants replacing the late lamented Pizzaghetti and keeping company […]