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Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org Staffrider Vol.9 No.4 1991 Publisher Ravan Press, Johannesburg Date 1991-00-00 Resource type Journals (Periodicals) Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) South Africa, Unknown Coverage (temporal) 1991 Rights Digital Innovation South Africa Description A South African literary magazine with essays, poetry, interviews, stories, and reviews from various individuals and groups within South Africa. Format extent 155 page(s) (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.STV9N491 http://www.aluka.org 1992 ~4O 1992 ~4O 0 ErE d] Contents I*l Comment- A. W. Oliphant, B. Schreiner, P. Weinberg, M. Krouse Stories * Crossing Borders Without Leaving - Keorapetse Kgositsile Mysterious Independence - Enoch A. Monkwe ~ Till We Meet - Mavis Smallberg Irn In the Shacks of Inanda - Gladman Mvukuzane Ngubo Essays WJl The West End Becoming - David Goldblatt 1* The Renewal of South African Literature -Andries Walter Oliphant 10 A Freedom Charter For South African Artists - Albie Sachs Contemporary Mural Art: Urban Dislocation and Indifference - Annette Loubser I Movies and Monopolies: The Distribution of Cinema in South Africa - Jeremy Nathan EDance in Search of Commonality - Jay Pather I Documentary Photography: Past, Present and Future - Paul Weinberg II Community-based Cultural Education in the Nineties: Problems and Possibilities - Mike van Graan I[lU Strange Business: The Independent Music Culture in South Africa - Warrick Sony Interview I Developing An Indigenous Music Culture - Barbara Schreiner Poetry *1 Linda Kude Kube-Sebusuku Thembile Pepeteka 11 ThreePoems - Keorapetse Kgositsile IE PromisedLand - Kelwyn Sole W Homecoming - Bala Mudaly II Ornament - Martin Jacklin IEJ Two Poems - Modikwe Dikobe EM In the Water - Lauren Gower IF Two Poems - Zakes MdaIM Mask - Alan Thwaite I ] Stonehill: Indraai - Amanda Kruger IN Two Poems - Senzo Malinga I j , Four Poems - Karen Press ~ Peace - Max Gebhardt El We Always Sit - Stan Ndongeni 1 Funereal - Rustum Kozaim lj Untitled - Roshila Nair Jf I In Bain's Kloof - Alan James 113 Exhaustion - M.G. Solomon ! Two Poems - Cheryl Irene The Shadows - Luvuyo Nontenja STwo Portraits of Love - Eddy T. Maloka EiTwo Poems - Bongani Ndlovu lii anti-thesis: Song of Innocence - Mark Anderson IEl Sleeping In Church - Benjamin Molefi Two Poems - Cecil Prinsloo EiApartheid Mechanics - Kaizer Funda Ngaki FUML Reflections of an Old Worker, Or The Ballade of the Power Over My Body - Gladys Thomas M AnIconofBones - Carsten Knoch Good Morning South Africa - Peter Horn ~NMukorob: I and Eye - Volker Ruder RHThe Calabash - M. R. Hendrikse 1101 Christmas Eve Curfew at Crossroads - Albert Frank May EM11 Two Poems -Lisa Combrinck Mjj Hegemony of Love - Abduragheim Johnstone EM E- Makhabeleni -HenryZondi M Three Poems - Frank Meintjies E0tq Revolution -Damian Shaw E Tell the Truth - Kassinga Kena IM Father's Treasure - Charles Ndaba Reviews E An Important and Imaginative Anthology - Isobel Hofmeyr EM Throwing Stones: The Theory and Practice of Feminist Anthologies - Marcia Levison IM Contradictions and Inequalities - Anette Horn I Posters and People's Struggles - Matthew Krouse Er (ED Staffrider Vol. 9 No. 4 1991 Letter I= Those Circumcision Photos: Arrogance or Ignorance? - Tom O'Neill Photographs [ i1[i The West End Becoming - David Goldblatt Video Distributors - Giulio Biccari 031 Some South African Exiles - Jeeva Rajgopaul IM Mr Mac and the Genuines - Lloyd Ross E The Mahotella Queens - Rafs Mayet cKlaTwo Photos - Steve Hilton-Barber I[]I]Portraits of South African Women - Gisele Wulfsohn EN Rashid Lanie - Andrew Lord STAFFRIDER EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE General Editor: Andries Walter Oliphant REGIONAL EDITORS AND DISTRIBUTORS Transvaal: Lance Nawa, Steve Kromberg, Frank Meintjies Natal: Ari Sitas, Pearl Jean Gorrie, Jabu Mkhize Western Cape: Hein Willemse, Mario Pissarra, Donald Parenzee, Coraleah Marais Free State: Cingani Phaku, Patrick Nyezi, Grant Tsimatsima Eastern Cape: Susie Mabie, Michael Barry EDITORIAL ADVISORS: Njabulo Ndebele, Nadine Gordimer, Mongane Serote, Kelwyn Sole, Paul Weinberg, Gary Rathbone, Achmat Dangor, Christopher van Wyk, Gcina Mhlophe, David Koloane, Nise Malange, Luli Callinicos. Typesetting, Design and Layout: Shereen Usdin Illustrator and Artist: Andrew Lord Marketing and Distribution: Matthew Krouse Printed by Creda Press Repro by Industrial Graphics Paintings and Graphics Everybody Gets to Town - Kweti Ndz.ube J Two Linocuts - Zolile Kwinana ~JDetail at Botshabelo - Esta Mahlangu The Painting of a 'Porayana' - Esta Mahlangu SThe Alexandra Clinic Entrance Wall - Tanki Mokhele R Interior Courtyard Wall, Botshabelo Unknown jUEtchings - Paola Beck EIArtwork - Michael Barry IfUntitled - Willie Bester Staffrider is published by the Congress of South African Writers, P.O. Box 421007, Fordsburg 2033. Copyright is held by the individual contributors of all material, including the visual, photographic and graphic material published in the magazine. Anyone wishing to reproduce material from the magazine should approach the individual contributors c/o the publishers. Contributions and correspondence should be sent to The Editorial Collective Staffrider P.O. Box 421007 Fordsburg 2033. All contributions should be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope and a short two-line biography. Front Cover Artwork Untitled by Mario Pissarra - Visual Arts Group Back Cover Artwork Hair Sty'le Chart by Ahongan Komla Courtesy of Lee and Henion Han Comment This special edition of Staffrider published by the Congress of South African Writers in association with the Progressive Arts Project is of special significance. Firstly, it marks the closure of the Progressive Arts Project. This organisation was founded in Johannesburg in 1978 to facilitate cultural production in the larger Witwatersrand area as well as to assist various artists in establishing representative organizations for their disciplines. Secondly, this edition seeks to explore the problems and challenges facing South African writers, artists and performers in the current period which is widely regarded as a transition from racial domination to a non-racial democracy. In the light of this, Nadine Gordimer, in a recent address to the Los Angeles meeting on the Cultural Boycott hosted by the United Nations, reminded the gathering of the roles of the international and local communities of artists in bringing about lasting change in South Africa. She writes: As apartheid is slowly, reluctantly, officially carted away piece by piece, it must be remembered that this process began only because of and under international pressure, the irresistible force of the boycott and sanctions movements combined with the action of the liberation movements against what appeared to be an immovable object. It has been moved: and the process of clearance will be completed, every brick and stone, only under the continued and maintained pressure from the international cultural community and its governments. But clearing the ground of the evil of apartheid will not, from the point of view of the realities of culture, leave standing the good. It was never there. There never was any recognition by the succession of racist regimes that educational and cultural structures should be designed and operated by all its people, not for an exclusively white population. Gordimer also addressed the role of South African writers and artists by pointing out that we now face the challenge to create a literature, art and culture 'which arises from and reflects the lives, the aspirations, the ability and above all the capacity to appreciate and enjoy the life of the mind of all the people in our country'. This issue of Staffrider attempts to assess the advances made towards such a culture and to draw attention to the work that still has to be undertaken to facilitate the democratisation of South African culture. It is done by looking at a number of interrelated cultural fields involving literature and language, music and performance, the visual arts, film, the challenges of community art projects and cultural rights in a democratic constitution. This hardly covers the entire spectrum of cultural activities which requires stock taking and the development of new perspectives. Central to these questions is the need to open radio and television broadcasting in South Africa for popular participation. In this regard readers are referred