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/ 29 November 1996

Why are NGOs struggling?

A new government approach to NGOs is needed, argues Ben Turok on the eve of NGO Week AS the non-governmental organisation (NGO) movement prepares for the celebration of NGO Week nationwide, we have to admit that the new South Africa owes the movement an apology. It has to be acknowledged that the consolidation of democratic […]

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/ 29 November 1996

Looking for repackaged Langston

Stephen Gray NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER by Langston Hughes (Scribners, R44,95) WITH his Collected Poems in two volumes recently published in the United States, the work of Langston Hughes (1902-67) is set for a revival. The exhaustive biography of him by Arnold Rampersad is in paperback as well, spurring reprints of Hughes’s work, most of which […]

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/ 29 November 1996

Drug demons, Lycra unitards and

hallucinatory drumming Jann Parry in London BODE LAWAL is a man possessed. In his solos for Sakoba Dance Theatre’s programme, New Moves in African Dance (at the Purcell Room), he seems in the grip of spirits, who speak to him and for him. Sometimes they are ancestral spirits, sometimes his own sense of curiosity and […]

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/ 29 November 1996

One scrape Mo didn’t survive

Colin Blane in London WHEN Ethiopia’s long civil war reached a climax in 1991, cameraman Mohamed “Mo” Amin, who died at the age of 52 in the hijacked Ethiopian airliner crash off the Comoros Islands last weekend, was filming the rebel takeover of Addis Ababa and the shelling of the imperial palace. Mo had dramatic […]

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/ 29 November 1996

Chiluba clamps down on critics

Anthony Kunda in Lusaka AN alliance of seven opposition parties that boycotted the elections – led by former president Kenneth Kaunda – has vehemently vowed never to recognise or respect the new Zambian government because “it was elected fraudulently.” Dr Rodger Chongwe, chairman of the Liberal Progressive Front, said this week: “We will hold demonstrations, […]

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/ 29 November 1996

Finding the road to freedom

TWICE during the past 32 years Zambia has been a beacon of hope in the continent. And twice the beacon has been extinguished through selfish power-grabbing. A model democracy was promised when Kenneth Kaunda led Zambians to freedom from Britain in October 1964. On the world stage Kaunda became a moral and practical leader in […]

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/ 29 November 1996

The trouble with touring …

There are many trouble spots on a tour of India, the worst of which are cuisine, toilets, travel and practice facilities CRICKET:V Roger Prabasarkar SOUTH AFRICANS in India seem to be rather unpopular with their countrymen at present, which seems unusual. The rigours of a tour to India usually unite a nation in sympathy at […]

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/ 29 November 1996

African anxieties on stage

Matthew Krouse OPEN SPACE: SIX CONTEMPORARY PLAYS FROM AFRICA edited and with an introduction by Yvette Hutchinson and Kole Omotoso (Kagiso, R42,95) MY LIFE AND VALLEY SONG by Athol Fugard (Hodder & Stoughton/ Witwatersrand University Press R25,95) TRAITOR ON THE ICE by John Kench (Mallard, R35) IT requires a certain commitment and patience to obtain […]

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/ 29 November 1996

The foolproof paymasters

South Africa leads the world in automated cash dispensers, writes Mark Ashurst EVERY month, a thin line of grandparents and great-grandparents shuffles across the rural landscape of KaNgwane, clutching fresh banknotes dished out by the most sophisticated cash dispensers in the world. The machines, which are mounted on unmarked pick-up trucks and escorted by armed […]