JUNE 16 YOUTH DAY IN commemoration of the thousands of children who died in the struggle against apartheid education which came to a head in the Soweto uprising of June 16 1976, today is celebrated as the Youth Day public holiday in South Africa. ANOTHER NAT JUMPS ANOTHER senior member of the National Party has […]
MONDAY, 12.00NOON: THE British Lions beat Currie Cup titleholders and Super 12 quarterfinalists Natal Sharks 42-12 in their match on Saturday in Durban. Natal wouldn’t have had a chance if not for the numerous penalty opportunities presented by the Lions, although Lions’ Neil Jenkins got to kick in six penalties as well. It was a […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM ZIMBABWE has threatened to sell off ivory stockpiles in contravention of the ban on trade in elephant products if the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species votes against its proposal to legalise ivory sales. Environment minister Chen Chimutengwende was quoted in the Herald newspaper at the weekend as saying that Cites ”will […]
MONDAY, 8.30AM HEAVY fighting has resumed in Congo-Brazzaville, as French troops prepared to leave after evacuating some 5 500 foreigners, including a number of South Africans. Although a ceasefire had been brokered on Wednesday by the French, fighting broke out again on the weekend in the region around the airport. Some three thousand people, mainly […]
Gang warfare in KwaMashu township has grown out of old anti-apartheid alliances, writes Enoch Mthembu AT least eight people were killed in Durban’s KwaMashu township this week after a feud between rival African National Congress factions broke out into open warfare. Former Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) exiles and members of the township’s self-defence unit began fighting […]
Ann Eveleth JOHN MARINGA is 25 and he is trying to write matric for the third time. He lost three years of schooling during the 1980s because of his anti-apartheid activism and has since twice written, and failed, the exam. He pins his hopes on studying at the Tembisa Technical College on the East Rand, […]
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Dan Glaister in London AS a form of revenge, it is both expansive and expensive. Sandra Three, by RB Kitaj, occupies an entire wall of the Royal Academy’s normally sedate Summer Show and carries a price tag of 1-million. The piece is the third instalment in Kitaj’s aim to exact revenge on the critics he […]
FINE ART: Brenda Atkinson DURING World War II, a man called Hugh Mcfarlane was commissioned to take “scientific” photographs of South African soldiers stationed in Namibia. He photographed over 1 000 men, each one naked against a tiled white wall, standing on a small, numbered podium. The strangled subtexts of discipline and desire in the […]
An American institute is offering to raise us from the dead – at a price, writes Sue Nelson ACCORDING to legend, every 500 years the phoenix, a mythical Arabian bird, would fling itself on to a funeral pyre. But instead of dying, it would rise from the ashes with renewed vigour. It’s an appealing tale. […]