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...moral high ground is annoying enough to the Zimbabweans who even noticed it. But the laughable part of the England players' call for a venue change was the worry about "safety issues." "You get the impression that people are running after whites with machetes," sighs Chenjerai, a taxi driver. "Johannesburg is bad. Harare is quite safe." And probably never safer than during the Cup. "Mugabe will sanitize the area," says political commentator Diana Mitchell of the wide, treelined avenues around the cricket ground. "There will be a corridor of protection. The cricketers won't see a thing." Which...
...once banned gambling but allowed it in tribal areas carved out by the apartheid-era white government for blacks to inhabit. Kerzner, who began his career as an accountant, opened the first hotel-casino in 1977 in Mmabatho, the capital of the homeland of Bophuthatswana, about 150 miles from Johannesburg. That year he began planning what would become the opulent Sun City resort-casino-entertainment-theme-park complex. When it opened in 1979, Sun City--with four hotels, a 6,000-seat arena and a 46-acre manmade lake for water sports--became a favored destination for whites in Johannesburg...
...freedoms and relative financial comforts afforded us by our various Western governments, let us not forget that those freedoms were fought for and bought with blood--not by us but by those with enough conviction to heed the call to action and put an end to tyranny. MICHAEL BUNDRED Johannesburg...
...that Kentridge fused his interests to create the animated short “Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris.” The film introduces Soho Eckstein, a Johannesburg businessman physically modeled after Kentridge and ideologically based on his grandfather, seemingly oblivious to the chaos that surrounds him. Soho leads his daily life in cleanly boxed rooms that contrast the violence of the outside world. He is accompanied by his alter ego, Felix Teitlebaum, a dreamy character who competes for Soho’s wife...
Kentridge comes to Harvard today through the efforts of VES Head Tutor Paul Stopforth, who is also from South Africa and was working at the Market Gallery in Johannesburg when it featured Kentridge’s first solo show. In addition to having work currently displayed in Manhattan, Kentridge is also a visiting artist at Columbia University this fall semester...