Monday, 8 March saw the celebration of International Women’s Day, not International Ladies’ Day. But would anyone care if it was International Ladies’ Day? Well, when I went to Knysna with my family some years ago, we walked past stalls along the roadside. “Hey lady! Litchis for you today?” one hawker asked me.
Author: Busisiwe Hoho
Kingswood College is holding a 20+, 30+ and 40-year high school reunion this weekend. The 40-year reunion is a special event as apartheid activist Neil Aggett, one of the first white men to die in detention, matriculated at Kingswood in 1970.
In a different time by Peter Harris is a book that provides an invaluable and personal perspective of South Africa at the height of repression.
South Africans have been watching eagerly as the clock counts down the days until the World Cup but little attention or publicity has been given to another international football tournament the country will be hosting in 2010 probably because there aren’t any men playing.
Jay Bones is, well, kind of cool. He’s the frontman of South African punk/ska band Fuzigish, and last year he released his debut solo album, Watching and Waiting, under the name Rambling Bones. Though his solo act has moved away from Fuzigish’s feistiness and is all about the acoustic, he still knows how to deliver those punchy tunes.
South African folklore still warns us of the tokoloshe lurking under the bed. Now beware; the eisbein in the fridge. There’s nothing more grotesque than that ruddy chunk of pork, a grotesque reminder of the night before, with all the visual appeal of scalded road kill.
This weekend choreographers Gary Gordon and ActyTang, in collaboration with Rhodes Drama Department and First Physical Theatre Company, will present their respective works Go and Male Variations: let me entertain you 400 times over.
Over 50 members of the Congress of the People (Cope) sang and danced outside the Cope offices on Chapel Street on Saturday as their leaders thanked them for campaigning in the build-up to last year’s general elections.
Team Tip Top were crowned the 2010 Pepper Grove Pick n Pay Inter Company Night Bowls league champions when they beat team Fizix in the final event on Friday. Two games were played, one vying for the trophy and the other for the plate. The night bowls started towards the end of January with four teams in various sections.
St Andr ew’s College won their own annual St Andrew’s College Shield Water Polo Tournament which took place at St Andrew’s College on Saturday and Sunday.