Percy Zvomuya finds time during the Arts Festival to make a pilgrimage to Fingo Village and document the graves of obscure Zimbabwean royalty.
Mikhael Subotzky’s new film brings the personal lives of Grahamstown’s resident tour guides into the settler discourse.
"Dismal system" means that many schools in the Eastern Cape don’t have enough teachers while others have too many of them.
Activists have accused police of assaulting and laying false charges against UPM’s Ayanda Kota in retaliation for his anti-government stance.
Drug mule Nolubabalo Nobanda told her mother she would be out of the country, but not in Thailand — she said she was headed for Brazil for vacation.
The sun finally emerged on Saturday, the penultimate day of the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, writes <b>Niren Tolsi</b>.
At the National Arts festival, the blur of deadlines, interviews, shows and discussions leaves little time for considerate reflection.
The frontline of journalism is a dangerous trench, where putting one’s health and sobriety on the line is an occupational hazard.
The quiet town of Grahamstown could get even quieter if the proposed Superior Courts Bill gets through Parliament.
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/ 17 December 2010
The proposed Superior Courts Bill is a landmark piece of legislation that intends to ensure the administrative independence of all SA’s courts.
A High Court ruling on Friday in Grahamstown has prevented an ANCYL elective conference from going ahead in the divided province.
Although Grahamstown may be soccer-weary for now, next week it will become the media capital of Africa.
Unashamedly materialistic and intentionally obscure, Michael MacGarry’s <em>Endgame</em> is one slick show, writes <b>Anthea Buys</b>
Visitors to this year’s National Arts Festival are planning their schedules around Mlu Zondi’s latest piece of choreography.
Fringe playwright <b>Conrad Kemp</b> writes about his approach to making work for the National Arts Festival.
Organisers are hoping some of the glamour of the World Cup will rub off now that huge numbers of foreign media and theatre critics are in SA.
Dance is suggestive of physical energy, of a body in continuous and rhythmic movement. Poetry operates in much the same way.
The play <i>Hayani</i> is an evocative recollection of childhood by actor and director John Kani’s son, Atandwa, and Nat Ramabulana.
Monday night at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown saw the uniting of Ronald Snijders and United States-born Salim Washington.
The global economic crisis has resulted in a paradigm shift in which the "rich and powerful have been humbled", Eskom chairperson Bobby Godsell says.
A heavy thunderstorm in Grahamstown on Wednesday left 11 people injured and 65 homeless, Eastern Cape police said.
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/ 18 September 2008
The contrasting events of last week highlight both the romanticism of citizen journalism and the fragile character of the phenomenon.
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/ 13 September 2008
One of Thought Leader’s most popular bloggers has been named winner of the "innovative use of the Internet" award at the Highway Africa conference.
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/ 10 September 2008
Khaya Dlanga, one of Thought Leader‘s popular bloggers, has been named winner of the Innovative use of the Internet award at Highway Africa.
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/ 4 September 2008
High on the Highway Africa agenda will be debates on how to deepen the democratisation role of the media.
An Eastern Cape man was jailed for 20 years on Friday for killing his five-year-old stepdaughter.
A Middelburg man accused of bludgeoning his five-year-old stepdaughter to death after quarrelling with her mother has denied killing the child.
A man accused of killing his five-year-old stepdaughter claimed in court on Monday that the blood found on his jacket belonged to a sheep.
The Grahamstown High Court sentenced a man who raped a seven-year-old girl last year to life in prison on Friday.
Four men accused of killing a man by dropping concrete blocks on his head have pleaded not guilty to murder in the Grahamstown Magistrate’s Court.
As a nation, South Africa has long overcome cultural cringe and the need to emulate Anglo-America for artistic validation.
Five people accused of beating a man to death with a pickaxe handle nearly two years ago appeared in the Grahamstown Regional Court on Monday.