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Legendary storyteller Dr John Jahn Kani comically goes down memory lane into his theatre life and role in the struggle from apartheid to post democracy South Africa.
He shares his story through a roller coaster of emotions like only a legendary storyteller can: he "shows" instead of telling. One moment he's hilariously funny, and deadly serious the next.
We chat to him at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg where one theatre is named after him. He also shares his views on social issues such as gender-based violence.
From being arrested for acting in theatre during apartheid despite being award winning stars to telling political stories in post democratic South Africa.
In this almost one-and-a half-hour chat Kani keeps us intrigued about his storytelling life in apartheid and post apartheid life.
He celebrates his 80th birthday on August 30 and does not intend stopping writing plays anytime soon.
He is hosted by Sunday Times deputy editor Mike Siluma and the producer is Bulelani Nonyukela. Sunday Times · Facebook · Twitter
15 first-year female students in no holds barred recorded interviews with University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) researchers, implicated senior students, including some members of the student representative council (SRC) and the institution's department of student residence affairs (DSRA), whom they accused of treating them like "fresh meat".They spoke of coercion, especially when transactional sexual relations were resisted, in the" Fresh Meat: First year female students negotiating sexual violence on campus residences" study, published last month in the South African Journal of Higher Education.The study was conducted pre-Covid-19 to determine how young women experience and negotiate gender, sexuality and violence on campus residences.Female students, past and present, who were not part of the study and spoke on condition of anonymity to the Sunday Times, this week told how they witnessed their peers being coerced, experienced insinuations of sex to guarantee accommodation at campus residences by "connected" seniors, and were fleeced out of thousands of rands in a bid to secure rooms. A student, who will graduate in coming weeks, said she paid R4000 to a student who claimed he was connected to SRC members who would secure her a room on campus in her first year but made off with her money.
The longest serving judge on Idols SA serves us his top 3 Elvis songs - (at the moment)
James Holley, chief executive of private freight rail operator Traxtion Group, chats to journalist Paul Ash about how private access to Transnet's vast network could shake up SA’s railways.
Whistle recorded from a bottlenose dolphin population of the Namibian coastline near Walvis Bay.
CREDIT Namibia Dolphin Project
Handpicked by the South African government to lead it's advisory team in dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic, Professor Salim Adbool Karim's work in HIV and AIDS research has taken a backseat. The CAPRISA's head of Global Health in epidemiology, Abdool Karim speaks to Sunday Times about advising a listening government, the team's work, family and working to save humanity against a deadly virus that has completely changed the world as we know it.
Linda Mbatha, 36, says the lockdown caught them off guard so they were not able to buy as much food as they would have liked. They were able to get the bare necessities such as rice and maize.
David Chirwa, 24, with last paid at the end of March he said that he's not sure whether he's going to be paid for April seeing as he did not work
Mabizela Street, a cul de sac in Orlando East, Soweto — less than 1km from Orlando High School where Hector Pieterson was shot dead by police in 1976 — is alive with shrieking children locked in an intense street soccer match.
But each household harbours its own strife during SA’s national lockdown. Sunday Times reporter Jeff Wicks and photographer Sebabatso Mosamo, talk to community members to see how they are handling the lockdown.
In a recording made on the last weekend of September 2018, a man believed to be Mohamedaly Hanware can be heard speaking on the phone to a man believed to be Maj-Gen Jeremy Vearey, whom he refers to as “V”.
A man warns his WhatsApp group, in Xhosa, to be on a look out as blood is going to be spilled in a deadly battle raging between SMME's in Port Elizabeth.
A man tells a WhatsApp group, in Xhosa, that they have killed two people in Uitenhage and are now planning to kill others hiding in nearby Kirkwood.
Ten people have been killed in the past three weeks in a deadly spree linked to lucrative SMME contracts.
An explosive recording of a meeting between senior Bosasa executives reveals claims that former president Jacob Zuma was involved in their bid to muzzle a Hawks investigation into the company, and reveals the lengths the company would go to stop its employees speaking out.
An edited recording of a meeting of the board of Ayo Technology Solutions held in Cape Town on August 7 where businessman Iqbal Surve and Ayo board members plot to mislead the PIC over why a crucial deal fell through.
A well-connected businessman, believed to be Senzo Tsabedze, tells a government official how he gave an MEC R1m for an ANC Women’s League conference so he could get more contracts with her department.
"My removal would make state capture of the PIC easier," says Matjila in the interview.
The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) has deliberated on claims of alleged impropriety by its CEO Daniel Matjila and has found the allegations to be baseless.
There has been a swirl of rumour regarding alleged impropriety around Matjila.
Matjila has denied the charges, saying they were designed to hound him out of the management of the pensions of state employees.
The PIC manages nearly R2-trillion worth of public servants’ pensions and other public funds and invests in, and earns returns from, listed and unlisted entities.