Several productions at this year’s National Arts Festival explore the dramatic potential of the time-space between crime and punishment.
As a jazz musician, the minute you stop learning you’re dead, says Mark Fransman, this year’s Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner.
The <i>Defined by Four Letters</i> exhibition at the National Arts Festival is an expression of the lives and identities of people living with HIV.
A Carlo Mombelli gig can make you wonder if you’ve come to the right place, writes Thorsten Schier from the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
Boxer Samorha Msophi has died in hospital after he collapsed during a junior flyweight title clash in East London on the weekend.
A disabled man accused of killing his wife after she taunted him about ”having the best sex of her life with her lover” has been convicted of murder.
Native bush could be a weapon against climate change, making South Africa a player in the international carbon credits market.
A 42-year-old Namibian accused of raping a 10-year-old girl was genetically linked to her rape by a DNA analysis, the Grahamstown High Court heard.
Twelve out of 19 tuberculosis (TB) patients who escaped from the Jose Pearson Hospital in Port Elizabeth have been found.
Ten out of 19 patients who escaped from a TB hospital in Port Elizabeth have been found — but nine others are still missing.
Fay Cranmer, Kate Farina, Sindi Ngaba, Christine Ramon, Nompulelo Siswana.
Nineteen tuberculosis patients have escaped from the Jose Pearson TB hospital in Port Elizabeth, the Eastern Cape Health Department said on Sunday.
With his popularity waning, ANC president Jacob Zuma faces a series of hurdles.
The woman with the microphone and brightly coloured knit tam-o’-shanter is speaking in Nelson Mandela’s name as she presses villagers to be honest about HIV/Aids.
Changes from the top and fresh energy are invigorating the National Arts Festival. Brent Meersman speaks to Tony Lankester, the new chief executive.
The government has identified at least 27 cases where a syndicate has swindled more than R199-million from government departments in four provinces over the past three years — using cyber-spyware.
For the Sake of Silence (in which the narrator frequently meditates on the undesirability of words) extends to 550 pages.
The ANC Youth League faces yet another crisis after five of its provincial structures rejected Luthuli House’s endorsement of its controversially elected top five officials.
"Our school was in a bad condition before, with pipes leaking, toilets dirty and in a poor condition."
Makana Meadery in Grahamstown combines local knowledge and scientific know-how to save energy and reduce its carbon footprint.
An Eastern Cape man was the target of ”devastating” sexual taunts from his wife before he allegedly killed her, the Grahamstown High Court heard on Thursday.
The Eastern Cape department of health on Thursday launched a massive campaign to educate and employ more than 1 000 health professionals.
About 142 court cases linked to xenophobic violence have been opened countrywide, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Tlali Tlali said 102 of these were in Gauteng. Provincial police liaison officers approached said none of the 142 cases had reached the conviction stage yet.
Kevin Davie recalls the warm hospitality of the people of Lesotho and the variable weather conditions in which they live. The village of Ha Sepechela is pretty remote, comprising about 30 chimneyless huts. Here residents leave the top half of their stable-type doors open to allow smoke to escape.
Poor hygiene may have caused the diarrhoea outbreaks that killed nine babies in the Ndlambe municipal area in the Eastern Cape over the past three months, government departments said on Friday. The Water Affairs Department said although there had been poor water quality, this was neither ”excessive” nor ”severe enough” to cause diarrhoea outbreaks.
A life without foreigners? I woke and switched on the radio for the early morning news. I heard our foreign neighbours have gone back to their African countries. Good news, I said, now there will be peace. I went to the bathroom for a shower to find there was no hot water. I needed a […]
An investment of R42-million was placed into a project for a medical aid for ex-miners on Thursday. The agreement aims to improve public health facilities that will be largely utilised by ex-miners in South Africa and neighbouring countries, for the benefit of medical examinations.
The death toll for the Eastern Cape bus crash stood at 22, including five children, police announced on Wednesday. The bus — which belongs to a private bus company — careened down a 200m embankment into a river near the town of Cedarville on Tuesday. During the course of the day, there were conflicting reports of how many people had been killed, ranging from 20 to 30.
At least 24 people were killed and scores more injured in the Eastern Cape when a bus careened down a 200m embankment into a river near the town of Cedarville. Police spokesperson Superintendent Zandra Wiid said it was not known how many people were in the bus. Unconfirmed reports said there were as many as 80.
One month after her appointment, the new director general of water affairs and forestry, Pam Yako has come out fighting — promising she will target water-guzzling operators, including in the mining and forestry industries, in an attempt to prevent water becoming as critically threatened a resource as energy.
Thousands of people marched through Johannesburg on Saturday, calling for an end to the violence that has killed at least 50 African migrants and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes. People in Hillbrow, home to many African immigrants, cheered the march, which was organised by churches and labour unions.
The blackened fragments spread out on the table look at first glance like no more than a scattering of charcoal, left over from a long-dead fire. But on closer examination one sees that the fragments are grouped, and that each group has its own printed label. In one corner, in a plastic lunchbox-type container, are the smallest fragments of all.