Opinion
LitNet contributors voice their opinions about current affairs.
Traditional hatred
2012-01-17What an interesting holiday season this has been! Three weeks went by so fast that I once again find myself writing the first article for the new year!
BlackSheepTV #12: Parking meters
2012-01-16 Suddenly there's a parking meter outside my house and I have to pay!
Crime and contemplation
2011-12-15This past week I have been contemplating crime ... that is, the concept of crime and punishment. People seem to think that punishment and the concept of consequence provides a framework of limitations which go beyond just saying "don't". Punishment ...
A Shot at the Big Time
2011-12-07 Award-winning film-maker and journalist Janet van Eeden has launched a crowd-sourcing campaign for her film A Shot at the Big Time, inspired by the story of her brother, Jimmy, who took his own life rather than fight in the apartheid Border War, a war ...
There is in prejudice no fairness, nor equality
2011-12-07We are all losing a little bit of our equality and freedom, a little bit at a time. All of us, in every social grouping, whatever the basis for discrimination or differentiation, are affected.
We are Big Brother
2011-12-01 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? This a Latin proverb meaning "Who will guard the guardians?" or "Who will watch the watchdogs?" Correct me if I'm wrong, but in a democracy that is the job for the people, the citizenry, the electorate, the body politic. That's us. We do. Or don't – depending on what little laws or obstacles those […]
Nashen Moodley joins the Sydney Film Festival
2011-12-01 Nashen Moodley joins Sydney Film Festival at a time of great strength and growth.
Strijdom van der Merwe, the blue line, a red flag and black Tuesday
2011-12-01 Strijdom van der Merwe recently decided to walk away from a proposed project in Durban. The idea was to paint a blue line through the city to demonstrate the potential impact of global warming. Behind the scenes, Van der Merwe clashed ...
Notes on the making of "In Durban, all roads lead ..."
2011-12-01 Strijdom van der Merwe recently decided to walk away from a proposed project in Durban. The idea was to paint a blue line through the city to demonstrate the potential impact of global warming. Behind the scenes, Van der Merwe clashed ...
Ângela Ferreira discusses her latest body of work with Kristine Kronjé
2011-12-01 Following Werdmuller Centre and Other Works in 2010 Mozambican-born artist, Ângela Ferreira recently showed her second solo exhibition at Stevenson in Cape Town. Investigating the ongoing impact of colonialism and post-colonialism ...
It Gets Better campaign hopes to bring positive message to Cape Town’s gay youth
2011-11-29It Gets Better is an internet-based project in response to the suicides of teenagers who were bullied because they were gay or because their peers suspected that they were gay. Its goal is to prevent suicide among LGBT youth by having gay adults convey the ...
Victims and victors: winners and losers in a post-apartheid arts dispensation
2011-11-29Is Limpopo sucking the hind teat of arts funding in South Africa today? According to the NAC’s 2010 annual report, out of a total of 615 funded applications, Limpopo had only 33. Or maybe it was Mpumalanga with 16 projects. Or the Northern Cape, with ...
Legal opinion relating to the passing of the protection of state information bill
2011-11-23 This new controversial law has been proposed in order to protect the state against "espionage" and guard "national interests", but among other things it will have the effect of being able to gag the media.
Passing on the Torch
2011-11-23It is very close to the end of another year, and the time has come again for me to reflect on the past, to take stock ...
Frankie Murrey on the new library at Matthew Goniwe Memorial High School
2011-11-23 Hi Frankie. I want to start by congratulating you, both on the success of the Open Book Festival and on the great work you are doing at Matthew Goniwe Memorial High School (MGMH). How did Open Book's involvement at MGMH come about?
Priti Devi, Vice-President of the Creative World, talks to Naomi Meyer about the Freedom to Create Festival
2011-11-22 The Freedom to Create came to Cape Town this year, celebrating all the world’s freedom to be creative.
Mr Gay South Africa finalist reaches out to people living with HIV
2011-11-21 Mr. Gay South Africa finalist Charlie Jacobs has chosen OUT, the Pretoria-based Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) health and well-being NGO, as the charity he'll be supporting during the competition. The thirty-year-old Jacobs, a sales and event decor executive and post-graduate social psychology student from Randburg, says that he selected OUT because the organisation's […]
Lessons in love
2011-11-17I love you ... The words are cheap and easily said these days, aren't they? I love you ... They can buy you happiness, trust, romance, company, wealth – anything your heart desires – if you use them well. Depending on your skill, and the extent of your ...