FINEART: Andrew Putter FOR just over a year now, a group of top- drawer young Cape Town artists have been working on a collaborative project, set to culminate in a mammoth installation/performance at the Castle this week. Called Sluice, the project grew out of collective interests in new ways of approaching artmaking – and shared […]

Ann Eveleth KING Goodwill Zwelithini pulled out of a consortium bidding for KwaZulu-Natal’s new private sound radio station last week because he didn’t know what he was getting into, say royal family members. Zwelithini mysteriously dropped his 5% stake and yanked his endorsement for Radio One – one of two consortiums bidding for the station […]

Suzy Bell WHETHER it’s the tender image of Katrina Thomas gathering her goats or the anxious look in Freddie Bosman’s eyes on the bus journey towards his beloved home, Riemvasmaak, after spending 20 years in the Ciskei, some pictures do speak a thousand words. Winner of a Mother Jones International Documentary Award (1993) for his […]

Omar’s failure to get any concessions from Pagad has cast doubt on his ability to hold his present positions. Rehana Rossouw reports JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar’s failure to rein in Pagad is fuelling fears that he cannot juggle his ministerial position with his role as ANC leader in the Western Cape. Political observers believe Omar’s […]

Ken Owen joined the gathering of Afrikaners in Stellenbosch and found their fears unconvincing TO Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo and, yes, to the cadres who ravaged the townships in the Eighties, I give thanks: they have liberated me to use and enjoy Afrikaans, the only language that properly describes the landscape and the life […]

Genetically engineered vegetables may make the scientists and farmers happy – but do people want to eat them? Michael Durham reports from London AFTER years of tinkering in vast laboratories and locked greenhouses, agrochemical companies are ready to unleash their discoveries on the world: genetically changed plants and vegetables, programmed by the addition or subtraction […]

Chris McGreal in Kigali ZAIREAN rebels say they have launched an assault against the main diamond-mining region, threatening a major source of the elite’s wealth and potentially providing the insurgents with an important means of funding their war against ailing President Mobutu Sese Seko’s regime. The Rwandan-backed insurgents are headed toward the regional capital, Mbuji-Mayi, […]

The intitiative to form a new Afrikaans organisation drew the support of the Afrikaans establishment – but not its traditional critics, writes Rehana Rossouw CONRAD SIDEGO, former South African ambassador to Denmark, assured the last speaker at a meeting of Afrikaans people at the weekend that the colour of her skin had nothing to do […]

The competition for an FM licence has begun in Cape Town, with former political prisoners pitted against black businessmen, writes Marion Edmunds WHILE there are only two competitors for the licence for Cape Town’s first new FM commercial radio station, both have so much in their favour that the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) will find […]