Performances by Malian musician Salif Keita and Dutch theatre company Dogtroep are among the trump cards of this year’s Arts Alive festival in Johannesburg, writes Bafana Khumalo HOT on the heels of the Standard Bank National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, Arts Alive — Johannesburg’s answer to cultural relevance — has announced its line-up for this […]
Weekly Mail Reporter THE Market Theatre Company’s production of Scenes from an Execution won seven of the FNB Vita PWV theatre awards last week. The play was named best production of the year. Also honoured were its director, Clare Stopford; Dawid Minnaar and Camilla Waldman, who took the awards for best performance by supporting actors; […]
Sibusiso Nxumalo A SOUTH African National Defence Force soldier has accused former members of ANC security department Mbokodo — now senior officers in the new defence force — of victimising him for testifying about abuses in ANC detention camps. In a letter in the possession of the Mail & Guardian, Olefile Mngqibisa describes harassment by […]
Weekly Mail Reporter A SINGLE death last week represents the lowest death toll from “political violence” recorded by the Human Rights Committee in the PWV since February last year. The HRC said that for the week ending last Tuesday it had recorded one death and one injury in the PWV: the death of a white […]
Workers didn’t win many concessions in the Pick ‘n Pay strike but there is hope for better relations with management, writes Drew Forrest PICK ‘n Pay workers have lost their bitter three-week wage strike — but the settlement package holds out the prospect of reconstruction of union-management relations at the retail giant. And Labour Minister […]
Weekly Mail Television’s award-winning series, Ordinary People, is back on TV-1 on Thursday night. The series, which looks at topical issues and events through the eyes of a range of ordinary people, swept both major documentary television awards last year. It starts on Thursday August 11 at 10.15pm on TV-1.
Critical Consumer Pat Sidley SOUTH AFRICANS who buy compact discs know prices are much lower in the United States and hope against hope that they will drop in this country. But there is no price relief in sight. British consumers, in much the same boat as South Africans, have just had their hopes dashed by […]
Stolen cars may be driven into the Soweto police pound, but it is not always possible to drive them out, reports Sibusiso Nxumalo A MAIL & GUARDIAN investigation has uncovered a racket in which staff at the police-run Soweto Vehicle Storage Unit strip and sell off parts from stolen cars stored there after being recovered. […]
Joining the Boerevolk is easier than one would imagine and you don’t have to be white to qualify for membership, writes a Weekly Mail Reporter IT’S easy to become a member of the Boerevolk. All you need is R15 and a postage stamp. You don’t need to have an aunt who died in the Boer […]
Louise Flanagan and Chandre Gould SEVERAL askaris have died in mysterious circumstances — raising the possibility they are being murdered to stop further exposure of hit squad activities. Former Vlakplaas commander Colonel Eugene de Kock, currently facing murder and gun-running charges, is alleged to have killed askari Brian Ngqulunga, shot dead during the Harms Commission […]