Kagiso Trust Investments is graduating from little to super league in the media industry. Jacquie Golding-Duffy looks at its future media interests Kagiso Trust Investments (KTI) has come out of the closet, admitting it is involved in talks with major Afrikaans press group Perskor — owner of the most notorious of the apartheid-era newspapers, The […]

Thirteen artists engage with the magical spaces of Cape Town’s Castle in an exhibition exploring the need to remember. NEVILLE DUBOW reports IN the latter part of 1989, some months before FW de Klerk made his end-of-era speech in Parliament, a pivotal event occurred in the streets of Cape Town. The government gave permission for […]

MINISTRY of Sound opened the doors of its London nightclub in 1991, at the height of the rave explosion. Granted the UK’s first 24-hour music and dance licence, it has developed into a multi- faceted, award-winning centre for dance and club culture, spreading its name through pioneering projects and aggressive — sometimes terrorist- style — […]

Ann Eveleth KwaZulu-Natal’s local government polls were probably the most peaceful political event the historically stormy province has ever seen. Here and there a dark cloud hovered over the province’s 3,5-million voters as political opponents waged a final stand to protect — or extend — their turf, and in some cases angry voters’ tempers burst […]

ANC trade expert Rob Davies sees the EU moving away from aid and trade packages towards reciprocal deals with African-Caribbean-Pacific countries. Lynda Loxton reports Developing countries are becoming increasingly concerned about an apparent bid by the European Union to link negotiations on a free trade agreement with South Africa to the future of the Lome […]

Patrick Bond MEXICO’S southeastern mountains and valleys still occasionally resonate with the sounds of gunfire and poetry, as they did on January 1 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect and the Zapatista peasant army temporarily took control of dozens of towns in the state of Chiapas. But next month […]

MATTHEW KROUSE met up with the cast of Indiscretions during rehearsals this week `ARE real tears wrong?” asks actress Fiona Ramsay of director Robert Whitehead during a break in rehearsals. Eyes all red and puffy, she’s just been emoting heavily in the maddened climax of Indiscretions, which began previewing last night. Real tears, it transpires, […]

After two-and-a-half years of TV captioning for the deaf, how do we rate? Elsa Semmelink reports This month it will be two-and-a-half years since the former NNTV introduced the SABC’s first half-hour magazine programme for the deaf, but some people within the corporation feel South Africa still lags far behind international broadcasters. Sign Hear! was […]

Hunger striking is an ancient Celtic tradition. In the Middle Ages it was given recognition in the Irish legal system. An individual who had a complaint against another would hunger strike on his doorstep, either until the dispute was settled, or until he died. If he died, the law recognised the justification of his grievance […]