Touring Zairean superstar Papa Wemba talks to GWEN ANSELL about fashion, music and his African roots PAPA WEMBA is quiet but emphatic. ”Please, I don’t want to talk about le sape. The French press have made a great noise about my clothes, but my first identity is as a musician.” Zaireans, of course, are great […]
THEATRE: Bafana Khumalo ‘KING Kong would have made it to the top,” declares a young, upwardly mobile black man as he throws out his collection of Temptations, Jimmy Hendrix and Jackson Five records, ”if only he had used the elevator. Instead, he drew attention to his struggle and ended up dead.” Another, dressed as a […]
Take one of the dirt roads that run off the main tar road to St Lucia into the dense undergrowth of the Dukuduku and visit one of the settlements that have been carved into the forest. It will be a salutary lesson in how the poorest of the poor in this country experience nature conservation. […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy A new national newspaper — The Teacher — is about to hit South Africa’s streets as the first independent monthly venture dedicated solely to teachers. The newspaper is published by the South African Newspaper Education Trust (Sanet), and the Mail & Guardian has been commissioned to help produce the publication which will be […]
The Constitutional Assembly is likely to leave some of the trickiest disputes unresolved for the Constitutional Court to tackle, predicts Marion Edmunds Moses was lucky. He went up into the mountains, according to the Bible, and came back with two tablets of ten commandments, which gave the fundamentals in plain language. No public participation programmes, […]
Gaye Davis AFRICAN National Congress MP Carl Niehaus has charged Correctional Services Minister Dr Sipo Mzimela with displaying “one-upmanship” rather than the leadership necessary to effect change in South Africa’s prisons. In a letter to Mzimela this week, Niehaus said the “deepening crisis” in the Department of Correctional Services needed “strong, transparent and consultative leadership”. […]
Julian Drew SOUTH AFRICAN 5 000m record holder Shadrack Hoff of Pretoria Correctional Services is in awesome shape at the moment. He just missed the national 10 000m record in Port Elizabeth two weeks ago and has already posted an Olympic qualifier in the 5 000m this year. While Hoff’s times won’t make the likes […]
Local people say they weren’t consulted when the government decided against mining, reports Eddie Koch People living in the Dukuduku forest on the outskirts of St Lucia are threatening to blockade the holiday town in peak season over the Easter weekend in protest against the Cabinet’s move this month to ban titanium mining in the […]
Mugabe’s ‘success’ in turning his country into a de facto one-party state is to blame for last weekend’s election fiasco, argues Iden Wetherell The state-owned media tried to put a brave face on it. “Landslide win for Mugabe”, trumpeted The Herald after the final tally in Zimbabwe’s presidential poll was in. But nothing could disguise […]
Despite a law forbidding in-depth coverage of divorce cases, the media scrutinised the Mandela case, writes Philippa Garson THE flagrant contravention by the media this week of a section of the Divorce Act has raised questions about whether that aspect of the legislation is unconstitutional. The media had a “field-week” reporting on the ins and […]