A South African Arts & Culture Magazine
In this Women’s month, much focus has been placed on the 60th anniversary of the women’s march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 9 August 1956. What a tremendous day it was all those years ago when 20 000 women…
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CAPRIVI, or the Caprivi Strip as it has also been called, was named after the German Chancellor (1890-1894) Leo von Caprivi . Consult an atlas and it will be seen to be a narrow strip of land that lies in…
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ADAM SMALL, well known poet and author, wrote mainly in Afrikaans. Born 21.12.1936 Wellington, Western Cape died Cape Town 25 June 2016 Adam Small, academic, writer poet, activist was, in 2009, awarded a South African Academy of Arts & Sciences…
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There has been much talk recently about our rights; women’s rights, religious rights, children’s rights, civil rights, gay rights and more, sparked by events both in South Africa and abroad. A landmark event in South Africa during December has…
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This has not only been a South African female problem but a world wide one. In South Africa in 1923 a law was passed that allowed women to practice law. BERTHA SOLOMON became one of the first of such women….
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With the aid of modern appliances it is not difficult to have private or commercial washing done. In the past however, this was hard and heavy work requiring a strong body and much patience. When the abolition of slavery finally…
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THE BLACK SASH was a South African white women’s organisation formed in 1955. They stood on strategic streets wearing eye catching black sashes to stress and to indicate their opposition to the unjust laws of the apartheid government of the…
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South Africa has among the people of the country many exceptionally talented individuals in the arts and culture fields. For many to earn a living from their talent and ability to work hard, is not easy. Some will die without…
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In a production that pays homage to Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the UCT Drama Department is proud to present All’s Well That Ends Well, a story about a girl hopelessly in love with a young man…
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South African coastal waters have seen and still see interesting and unusual ships sailing into its harbours. An earlier visitor was the ship Gauss – named for the German mathematician, Karl Friedrich Gauss. It arrived in Table Bay on 23…
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