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For my birthday this year, I bought myself Volume 1 of the 27-volume Ethiopiques CDs. I've loved listening to the various albums online at random times and in a random order. But my goal is to own the entire collection ... Continue reading →
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Co-authored with Jill Farrington
The 2011 UN Summit on Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) elevated the importance of NCDs as a pressing global health challenge. While this recognition was long overdue, are we at risk of establishing a new vertical program, in direct competition for scarce funding with existing communicable diseases control programs and health system strengthening initiatives?
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By Katie Taft
The American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Our best thoughts come from others." This resonates with what I have heard in China during the Fourth South-South Cooperation Workshop on rural development and poverty reduction.
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Report by Rosanna Scott, Justin Archer & Martin Bleazard Grahamstown welcomed South African musical icons, Mango Groove, to the National Arts Festival for the first time in their 28 years of hits. They played to a packed audience that got all out of their seats jamming to the bands classic songs such and introducing the [...]
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Report by Bongiwe Tutu & Gabi Zietsman A powerful new South African play by Craig Higginson is situated on a farm in the Cradle of Humankind where much of the world's pre-human remains have been found. The play travels back into the caves where Little Foot - the three-million-year-old hominine was discovered. The audience experiences [...]
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Report by Enathi Mqokeli and Candyce Bruce Taking on macho male personas, Taryn Bennett and Helen Iskander use an unconventional and very funny comment on the construction of women in society. Bennett and Iskander become Raphael and George, two quirky brothers living peacefully on the Mediterranean Sea despite the war that surrounds them. cueTV gets [...]
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Report by Gabi Zietsman and Thomas Mills The National Arts Festival ended with a big burst of colour and sound as a throng of local performers hit the streets of Grahamstown for the last day parade. From bands, choirs, brass and batteria to stilts, apocolyse survivors, cuddly animals and Nounouche's Side Show, the parade had [...]
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Thinking of starting and growing your IT company? · What kind of company should you have? You need a structure that will enable you to protect your ideas, draft commercial agreements, obtain bank finance and settle disputes. · What are the laws that affect your IT business? · How can you plan for your taxes [...]
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Report by Palesa Mashigo and Kelley Wake Nearly all of us have been touched by cancer in some way. cueTV looks at two artists who have used their creativity to express and heal the pain cancer can cause. 1 in 9 photographer, Tracey Derrick, was diagnosed with cancer and used her photography to document her [...]
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This is a guest post in response to my recent blog titled "So how do we help the Congo?" It is co-authored by Pieter Vanholder, the national director of the Life and Peace Institute in the Congo, along with Deo Buuma, the executive secretary of Action pour la Paix et la Concorde (APC).
Le travail en RD Congo du Life & Peace Institute (LPI) et de ses partenaires, tels qu'Action pour la Paix et la Concorde (APC), a été assez largement commenté à l'occasion de la publication d'un Op-Ed de la politiste Séverine Autesserreparu dans le New York Times et l'International Herald Tribune datés du 22 juin - chronique ensuite discutée par Jason Stearns sur Congo Siasa. Le débat lancé par ces deux prises de parole est important. Nous ...
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