On Monday the government’s security of tenure legislation will be put to the test in Ceres, the fruit-growing valley between the mountains known for its soft fruit and juice industries in the Western Cape. It’s the first time in the area that farm workers are fighting their eviction. Martha Goliath is sitting in a tiny […]
THE world’s longest gold chain is to go on sale during Egypt’s shopping festival in July, newspapers reported on Friday. Dubbed Cleopatra’s Snake in tribute to the last pharaonic queen, the 4500-meter-long chain will weigh 250kg, Al-Akhbar newspaper said. The chain will be sold off in sections to customers during Egypt’s second annual month-long shopping […]
people’ of the rural hinterland The votes of residents in the small towns of the Western Cape rural hinterland are ready to swing to anyone who is willing to address their problems. Yet few in these small settlements far from the throbbing seats of power have seen a politician, election information or anything related to […]
Anthony Egan THE AWKWARD EMBRACE: ONE-PARTY DOMINATION AND DEMOCRACY edited by Hermann Giliomee and Charles Simkins (Tafelberg) SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS SINCE 1994 by Tom Lodge (David Philip) SOUTH AFRICA IN TRANSITION: THE MISUNDERSTOOD MIRACLE by Adrian Guelke (IB Tauris) With at least an eye – one suspects – on the elections, The Awkward Embrace examines […]
Samu Zulu SABC newsreader Alyce Chavunduka is descended from a family Zimbabweans talk about, whose academic achievements are lauded. So is Mark Chavunduka, the 34-year-old editor of the Harare-based Standard Newspaper. He received worldwide support when Zimbabwe military police arrested and tortured him in January following the publication of an article on an alleged foiled […]
Chaos seems to follow Michael Rosenzweig, but this hasn’t affected his ability to make precisely formed, sublime music. Ruben Mowszowski reports I got the warning from a mutual friend: Rosenzweig is in town. Originally from Cape Town but now resident in London, this enfant terrible, our very own bad, brilliant boy of music, has a […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube In the struggle years there was a lot of talk about saving the children. If it wasn’t mentioned in pop songs, it was written in the charters of NGOs. One such organisation – Molo Songololo – has for the last 19 years existed entirely for the sake of the children. […]
One of his former classmates described the young Philip Powell as a collector of Nazi paraphernalia "obsessed with warfare".
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Senior African National Congress leaders recently met leaders of the ANC-aligned South African Student Congress (Sasco) in a bid to end student opposition to the Rand Afrikaans University’s (RAU) offer of an honorary doctorate to Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. Sasco is insisting that Mbeki reject the honorary degree in law on […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.45PM: DICK Muir captain of the Western Stormers and Springbok centre has announced his retirement from rugby follwing a serious neck injury sustained in a match against the Auckland Blues three weeks ago. Muir’s career spanned ten years before he was advised to quit the game by Neurosurgeons on Tuesday. Muir (33) played 150 […]