Giles Foden WILD SHORE: LIFE AND DEATH WITH NICARAGUA’S LAST SHARK-HUNTERS by Edward Marriott (Picador) It is commonplace to remark that the boom in travel-writing began in the 1980s, with the emergence of writers such as Bruce Chatwin, Redmond O’Hanlon and Jonathan Raban, and ended with the departure from Granta in 1995 of an editor […]
Jaspreet Kindra and Sapa Afrikaner Weerstands- beweging (AWB) leader Eugene Terre’Blanche arrived at the Potchefstroom Regional Court on Thursday, dressed in black denim pants, a black shirt and a khaki hat. He sat in front of the court building on the horse, waving at the crowd. He shook hands with black people in the crowd. […]
Nashen Moodley The first time I heard a Joi track was on an album of remixes. The RealWorld release, Star Rise, featured the songs of Qawwali legend, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Michael Brook, remixed by young British Asians including Talvin Singh, Asian Dub Foundation, Aki Nawaz, Nitin Sawhney and Joi. The collection opens with […]
support staff Marianne Merten Chief magistrates across South Africa are threatening to stop doing their paperwork unless the Department of Justice speeds up plans to give them support staff. The threat by chief and senior magistrates to ignore their administrative duties comes as the department finalised its plans on a new court management system this […]
Khadija Magardie The Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE), a policy think-tank, has called for the abolition of the quota system currently imposed on skilled labour coming into South Africa. This is in response to the government’s draft Immigration Bill, which promises a shake-up of the country’s migration laws. According to CDE director Ann Bernstein […]
Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER The announcement of a national soccer squad can be a pretty pedestrian act. The “hacks” gather and eye the free food and drink. The coach arrives, flanked by officials, sits down and reads out his list of lucky footballers. Then comes the media interrogation. Why was he chosen? Why was he not […]
Cedric Mayson SPIRIT LEVEL Capitalism is theologically bankrupt. Fear not, we can make profits and own a house or savings account, but capitalism has become a world religion. It worships money as the ultimate value of life, and spreads the false gospel that profit equals human development. Early capitalism used machines and factories to improve […]
The highly romanticised notion of what a journalist’s work is all about is responsible for the lack of representation of women in the media Khadija Magardie The Human Rights Commission’s (HRC) hearings into racism in the media produced an interesting, though not entirely novel offshoot. Both participants and prominent media persons testifying at the hearings […]
Marianne Merten Cape Town is hosting South Africa’s first international jazz festival this weekend – entrenching the status of the Mother City as the country’s jazz capital and putting South Africa on the global map of annual events as the only one in the southern hemisphere. The festival is a six-year long dream come true […]
grid Gavin Foster When the World Superbike circus lays on its first matinee of the year on Sunday, motorcycle fans at Kyalami will get to see a brand new act – for the first time in South Africa, the Sidecar World Cup will be part of the superbike show. After half a century of playing […]