We profile the four winners of the 1998 Standard Bank Young Artist Award Aubrey Sekhabi, 28-year-old winner of the 1998 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Drama, is “a relentless, tenacious spirit”, says Dan Robbertse of the Performing Artists Workers Equity. “He’s been doing great work in North West province as drama director with very […]

Science clashes with tradition over the corpse of an ancient princess. James Meek reports from Novosibirsk The princess lies in a glass casket on the West Siberian plain alongside her kinsman. She is naked save for a scrap of gauze draped across the top of her legs. Tattooed beasts – part griffin, part deer, part […]

With the launch of a guild for South African animators, Tube’s cutesies on TV and Disney’s Hercules opening next week, we take a look at the world of animation Andrew Worsdale The South African Guild of Animators was officially launched a fortnight ago at this year’s Film and TV Market in Cape Town. Chairman Ron […]

Angella Johnson It was a sunny spring day in September when Andr Swart and his wife Lenie drove through the manicured grounds of their sprawling commercial farm. They had been to church, a high point of the weekly social calendar for their tight-knit Afrikaner farming community. As their car pulled into the garage four men […]

Police and women in Alexandra are working together to combat rape in the township, writes Lizeka Mda Put yourself in Josina Matangala’s shoes and you’ll want to scream. One Saturday night two months ago, a man she had seen around Alexandra township burst into her shack where she was sleeping with her two- year-old daughter […]

Lesley Cowling Mojalefa Murphy, one of the country’s rare black nuclear physicists who has been suspended by the Atomic Energy Corporation, hit back in the Pretoria High Court this week with a bitter attack on the AEC’s chief executive, Waldo Stumpf. Murphy, who was meant to be the new face of the AEC, has been […]

Madeleine Roux : Moveable feast It’s hard to make a really bad potato salad. The two most likely ways are to undercook the potatoes and add salad cream and raw onion rings. Alas, this awful concoction is a regular at otherwise delightful school bazaars and old-fashioned braais on the platteland. Most potato salads are sublime. […]

Andy Duffy Two Western Cape police officers are likely to be charged for their role in arming vigilantes on the Cape Flats, putting the police on course for a potentially embarrassing and divisive court case. The charges follow a sting operation last year in which police handed back a dud hand grenade to People Against […]

Design of the week : Maria McCloy We’re so used to the cheap, garish, characterless and boring mass-produced album covers of most South African artists (a perfect example is the new Brenda Fassie cover), it’s refreshing to see the cover art created by graphic designer Nicholas Hauser and Coil Productions photographer Lianne Cox. Most of […]

With seven new commercial radio stations, advertisers and listeners are flirting with the dial. Brett Davidson and Ferial Haffajee report Seven new commercial radio stations have jumped on the bandwagon – both FM and Medium Wave – this year, sparking a listening revolution. Station managers say many listeners are flirting with the dial, dipping into […]