In some Western Cape township schools 2008 started with a clash between circumcision initiates wearing post-circumcision dress and school authorities intent on ensuring school dress codes were adhered to.
”Just because we are poor doesn’t mean our brains can’t function properly,” said Zandile Gamede (16) at a laptop handover ceremony in Kliptown, Soweto, on Thursday. It is the first time that the international One Laptop per Child initiative has come to South Africa.
Designers are looking beyond fashion weeks and promo speak and are calling for policy intervention, writes Lynley Donnelly.
Marianne Fassler, whose latest collection was inspired by Marlene Dumas, talks trends with Lynley Donnelly.
In the run-up to the Audi Jo’burg Fashion Week, three designers offer a glimpse of what to expect on the Newtown catwalks.
The government has to reduce South Africans’ dependence on grants, President Thabo Mbeki told community development workers at an indaba in Midrand on Friday. ”We have to cultivate that sentiment among our people to say, ‘I too have a responsibility to do something about my own development,”’ said Mbeki.
Giving away free medicines, as Matthias Rath did with his vitamin products, is a well-known way of creating a market, the Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) counsel told the Cape High Court on Friday. Geoff Budlender was delivering final argument in the TAC’s bid for a court order forcing the government to act against Rath.
A kaleidoscope of African images and themes is a fitting backdrop for the debate the Jo’burg Art Fair, which opened to the public on Friday, has sparked about what it means to be African and an artist. The fair also has the art world buzzing about tensions between art and commerce.
Fans never seem to get their fill of Star Wars, and George Lucas is happy to oblige. Lucas offered a glimpse into the latest creation in his sci-fi universe at the theatre-owners’ convention ShoWest on Thursday, showing a sequence from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a computer-animated movie due in August.
Although crime in public places has decreased, there has been an increase of crime in residential areas, Tshwane mayor Gwen Ramokgopa said on Friday. Delivering her State of the City address at the council offices in Pretoria, the mayor said that the city is concerned about the increase in ever more violent crimes in residential areas.