Matthew Krouse The latest incentive to bring culture to the inner city on a grand scale will probably be greeted with scepticism from suburban quarters. It’s winter again, and inner city culture suffers historically in the cold. Working against the weather, and metropolitan apathy, the French Institute kicks off its bold plan to stage a […]
Newtown Some big projects, with big names, are being aired in yet another attempt to resuscitate the Newtown Cultural Precinct in Johannesburg, which first saw the light of day nearly a decade ago, writes Ricky Burnett Sometime in the early years of this decade Christopher Till, then director of culture for Johannesburg, described a future […]
Cameron Duodu Letter From The North The late Joshua Nkomo is the sort of personality to which the world is exposed only once in a thousand years. A familiar figure in Accra in the early Sixties, when President Kwame Nkrumah was helping Africans everywhere to organise resistance against white rule, Nkomo could easily have passed […]
University of the North vice-chancellor Njabulo Ndebele says he is proud of Edupark and its achievements.
Women of the sports world are no longer hiding behind their skirts. They themselves are the latest fashion trend and have no reason to be modest. That was the week of women in sport. The Wimbledon women, the women’s football World Cup and the England versus India women’s cricket test series are moving to centre […]
Niki Moore President Thabo Mbeki, Swaziland’s King Mswati III and Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano have given the Lubombo spatial development initiative (SDI) a shot in the arm, which it is hoped will help raise R1- billion for development projects. The three heads of state signed a protocol at the Southern African Economic Summit in Durban […]
Mungo Soggot Police have raided Cape empowerment group Brimstone’s pharmaceutical arm for the second time this year, seizing a batch of stolen antibiotics. The swoop on Monday follows a high profile raid on the company in May, in which the narcotics squad confiscated stolen painkillers as well as assorted drugs allegedly destined for the state […]
Yemi Toure Just when you thought it was safe to go into the jungles of Hollywood, along come the folks at Disney, swinging from the rafters with their film Tarzan. Disney’s official website describes how the studio came up with the image, the “look,” of the 1999 Tarzan. The studio wanted the character to be […]
David Gough Ten years after the outbreak of civil war in Somalia, there is growing optimism in the capital, Mogadishu, that Islamic groups, in partnership with the business community, are on the verge of restoring a semblance of order to the city. In the past month Islamic militias operating under the auspices of self-appointed Islamic […]
A few weeks ago I attended a workshop by the law commission on its draft Administrative Justice Bill. The combination of the Open Democracy Act and this Bill will be crucial legislative instruments in ensuring open, honest democracy. In the words of the Mpumalanga political lexicon, these laws will make it hard for government to […]