Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has slammed critics who claim the renaming of William Nicol Drive to Winnie Mandela Drive is an attempt to erase Afrikaners’ history.
Cabinet has backed a decision by the Joburg city council to rename William Nicol Drive to Winnie Mandela Drive, saying it’s an important step in recognising those who fought for freedom.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet has hailed the renaming of William Nicol Drive in Sandton, Johannesburg, to Winnie Mandela Drive as an important step in recognising those who fought for freedom.
Matthew Krouse’s ‘mid-career retrospective of a no career’
1 May 2021
Matthew Krouse on the set of The Soldier, a film about militarism and male rape. (Courtesy of Matthew Krouse)
Earlier this year, Adam Broomberg, a Johannesburg-born artist living in Berlin, phoned Matthew Krouse, a former actor turned writer and editor, with a request. It didn’t involve Yiddish translation work.
“People seem to think I am Isaac Bashevis Singer, which I’m not,” says Krouse, who was born into a Jewish family from Germiston in 1961. He grew up speaking Yiddish with his mother and has previously helped Broomberg with translations. “I won’t ever win a Nobel prize for writing in Yiddish,” he insists in reference to the Polish-American writer’s 1978 accolade.