Peter Frost : On show in Cape Town Despite all the prattle to the contrary, the ongoing debate about the evolution of theatre in South Africa still centres on the argument over which is preferable – a Eurocentric or ethnic approach. Many, like government, various NGOs and some arts bodies expect change, which means better […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.00PM. THE Free State Cheetahs stormed home to beat Border 36-18 in a Bankfin Currie Cup rugby clash in Bloemfontein on Friday night after leading 18-12 at the break. The inclusion of three Springbok players — Werner Swanepoel, Willie Meyer and Naka Drotske — in the Free State side made […]
Marthali Brand went to the opening of Graceland, the garish new casino in Mpumalanga Why is it that all roads to South African casinos lead through squatter camps? On my way to the opening of the first fully functional casino in the new South Africa, all I could think of as our luxury coach travelled […]
Tracy Murinik Whether you’ve been aware of it or not, if you’ve been living in South Africa within the past four decades or so, and if you’ve experienced any of this country’s major cities (and even some smaller towns), then it is likely that you have at some point encountered Revel Fox. Or his vision […]
Nation Heidi Clark The United Nations this week awarded First Nation status to one of South Africa’s oldest peoples, the Griquas. Plettenberg Bay councillor Sammy Jansen, a member of the Griqua political party, the Executive National Conference, says this is the UN’s acknowledgement of his nation as among the first inhabitants of South Africa. It […]
Donna Block : Share World Not too long ago, Latin America’s stock markets were like the Brazilian carnival dancers: sexy with a whole lot of shaking going on. From 1986 to 1996 no emerging markets were hotter than the Latinos. But the region once described as the emerging-market poster child has grown warts and facial […]
Tangeni Amupadhi The official police watchdog has obtained an affidavit from a person who claims to have seen two police officers coaching witnesses to finger people’s poet Mzwakhe Mbuli at an identity parade. At least two witnesses were shown photographs of Mbuli by policemen investigating a bank robbery in Waverley, north of Pretoria, last October, […]
Richard Hall Joseph Conrad described one of his villains as a “papier-mch Mephistopheles”. That was the image of Tiny Rowland, who has died aged 80. His secretive nature and mocking smile seemed to fit perfectly with Edward Heath’s descriptive tag: “An unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism”. Despite his Old Etonian airs, Rowland was born […]
Brenda Atkinson If you’ve been waiting to exhale ever since the grade-school camerawork of Avenues swung its way across SABC 3; if you’re still wondering why paying your TV licence seems the wrong thing to do; if you’re considering ditching your M-Net subscription, don’t panic yet. e-tv, the hot and politically sound channel that snatched […]
Mercedes Sayagues Copycat land invasions are spreading in Zimbabwe, six weeks after villagers first moved on to four commercial farms in Marondera, near Harare. Across the country hundreds of families have peacefully and briefly occupied land on dozens of farms. The harvest is over; there is a lull in farm work. A donor land conference […]