Culture and history
Whose tradition is it anyway?
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- 23 March 2009
I love those moments, even in the now not-so-new South Africa, when I picture the architect of apartheid, that evil old pig-dog Hendrik Verwoerd, turning in his grave, writes Bridget Hilton-Barber.
The shades of the Rainbow
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- 16 March 2009
South Africans from immigrant stock have more or less retained the culture of their forebears, even those who have never stepped foot outside Africa. But this cultural stickiness shouldn’t be criticised, it should be celebrated. We are the Rainbow Nation, with all its subtle gradations, writes Mary Alexander.
SA films scoop awards at Fespaco
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- 16 March 2009
Three South African Films collectively scooped six top prizes at the Fespaco Film Festival in Burkina Faso this March.
Robyn Orlin - dancing up a storm
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- 04 March 2009
French President Nikolas Sarkozy has awarded respected South African choreographer Robyn Orlin his country’s National Order of Merit in the class of Knight for her services to the arts.
Gospel Choir shine at the Oscars
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- 24 February 2009
South Africa's Grammy-winning Soweto Gospel Choir wowed the audience at the 81st Academy Awards when they performed their Oscar-nominated song Down to Earth, from Disney's hit animated film Wall-E.
Soweto's state-of-the-art theatre
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- 16 February 2009
Once known for dusty streets, poverty and antiapartheid resistance, South Africa's largest and best-known township of Soweto is taking on a distinctly middle-class air, with infrastructure upgrades, massive private sector investment – and now a multimillion-dollar, world-class theatre.
The African Activist Archive
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- 16 February 2009
A new online resource aims to preserve an important slice of shared African and American history covering 50 years of activism against apartheid and colonialism. The African Activist Archive Project has so far collected over 1 300 documents and artefacts, which are now available on the website.
