Themba waKashe, chief director of the Ministry of Arts and Culture, is reluctant to identify possible candidates for the most powerful cultural positions in the land — members of the National Arts Council —“because the people will be doing the nominating”. But a glance at the present make-up of the performing arts councils, the current […]
THEATRE: David le Page=20 ANTONY Sher would have had a field day at the Windybrow=20 Centre for the Arts, currently hosting a season of New=20 South African Plays. For this is a theatre complex where=20 plays occasionally have to be cancelled, on evenings when=20 cast outnumbers audience. This is not always a fair=20 process. A […]
SOUTH AFRICA’S book of the year has to be Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela this week revealed the ANC had received large donations from Indonesia
The government will be publishing its White Paper on Arts and Culture in the new year. HAZEL FRIEDMAN finds out what’s in store for IT doesn’t take soothsayer’s skills to predict the contents of the government’s White Paper on Arts and Culture, which will be released in the new year. Simply refer to the first […]
Bronwen Jones Soweto’s first bookshop will open its doors in Dobsonville on June 1. The bookshop idea, which has been tossed back and forth since last year in NGO-land, initially met with doubts and tales of doom. Publishers and possible investors wondered: “How safe will our stock be? How will we be paid? How can […]
The Beatles came back, the Stones kept going — and Blur and Oasis echoed an old rivalry, writes Shaun de Waal TWENTY-FIVE years after they broke up, The Beatles are back — well, sort of. The band broke up in 1970, and John Lennon was killed in 1980, but in 1995 the remaining Beatles put […]
KwaZulu/Natal’s People and Parks conference was a new=20 milestone in conservation policy, reports Ann Eveleth THE future of game reserves in KwaZulu/Natal will de-pend=20 on how the question of land reform is resolved in that=20 province. This was the central issue to emerge from a=20 landmark conference about conservation and community=20 development held in Durban […]
Right-wing political groups are trying to use a UN initiative to protect indigenous peoples for their own political ends, reports Eddie Koch A GROUP of boers, bushmen, basters and Zulu nationalists will make a bizarre set of bedfellows when they rally around the vierkleur, the pennant of the white right, at a conference this month […]
DESPITE his funky dreadlocks and good looks, Gito Baloi is a marketing person’s nightmare. The bass player whose four-string wizzardry can be heard on all the Tananas albums is far too polite and humble for an aspiring pop star who has just released a stunning solo album, which his record company wants to push overseas. […]