HAZEL FRIEDMAN meets sangoma Credo Mutwa to talk about the future – and a new exhibition ‘I HAVE a sick, disgusting obsession to make this country great – not through guns and revolution but through love and laughter.” Credo Mutwa’s eyes practically sink behind his tree-thick lenses and disappear into bloated cheeks as he breaks […]

Investigations into the ‘Trojan Horse’ incident in 1985 may reveal why officers who killed children were never prosecuted, reports Gustav Thiel IN the late afternoon of October 15 1985, security police hiding in crates on the back of a lorry opened fire on children playing in Thornton Road, in the Belgravia section of Athlone. Shaun […]

THE ANGELLA JOHNSON INTERVIEW I HAD been waiting more than 30 minutes for Cheryl Carolus, idling my time away listening to her secretary gossip over the phone. The African National Congress’s acting secretary general was late. I was growing more furious with each passing second, having rushed like a lunatic to get to ANC headquarters […]

THEATRE: Andrew Wilson GRIET Skryf ‘n Sprokie, currently on at the Civic Theatre in Johannesburg, is a stage adaptation of Marita van der Vyver’s much awarded 1992 novel, which traces the mental journey of an Afrikaner woman of the Nineties as she grapples with life, her sexuality and her writing. Tackling a cultural holy cow […]

Facing 21 counts of theft and fraud, Dr Allan Boesak can count on the support of the ANCdespite opposition party outrage, reports Rehana Rossouw PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA has offered to testify as a character witness for Dr Allan Boesak, close friends of the former African National Congress Western Cape chair said this week. Boesak – […]

Anthony Kunda in Lusaka IN an embarrassingly theatrical turn of events, Zambian President Frederick Chiluba has admitted that his government is corrupt. The head-turning admission came about during a recent inspection tour of the nightmarishly potholed roads of Lusaka. At one point, the visibly perturbed Chiluba, gesticulating angrily, said: “There is something fishy here. Every […]

Ann Eveleth THE Shobashobane massacre trial is drawing to a close, with Durban High Court Judge Hilary Squires expected on Monday to begin delivering judgement on one of the worst mass murders in KwaZulu-Natal’s 14-year civil war. For the last two months, more than 50 witnesses have testified about the events of early Christmas Day […]

Stefaans Brmmer POLICE and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) are looking at “all possible causes” of the car accident in which police assistant commissioner Leonard Radu died last week – including the possibility of foul play. Radu, the most senior former African National Congress cadre integrated into the new South African Police Service (SAPS), headed […]

The Asian, a new weekly tabloid, has provoked a mixed response from journalists and academics alike, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy A NEW tabloid will soon hit the streets of Durban and other major cities as it makes what promises to be a grand but controversial entry into the print market. The Asian, a new weekly newspaper […]

Maria McCloy ALAN DARGIN might just as well have been one of the stuffed koalas at the Australia tourist agent expo thing. He was sitting in the corner playing his didgeridoo while poshly dressed agents at Inanda Sun swanned about and ate lunch. Maybe they thought he was there just to create atmospheric Australian sounds. […]