{pp}In an effort to draw attention to our worsening waste crisis, environmentalists are walking a municipal wheelie bin around the city from 9 August. Ray D. Chaplin [3Poles] and Mary Murphy , who has worked on numerous waste minimisation campaigns, will be walking the bin around the Peninsula from 9-13 August.

{pp}An exhibition of recent work by Esther Mahlangu will open at 34 LONG at 18h00 on Tuesday, 7 August 2007.

Esther is best known for abstract works in her signature Ndebele idiom, and this exhibition will feature several new examples. In some works, she employs the vivid acrylic colours typical of Ndebele house decoration, and in others the more muted, earthy colour of natural pigments. She also uses cow dung which, like acrylic paint, is used extensively in her home environment as decorative and functional surfaces. Its unadulterated presence enhances the symbolic content of her paintings.

{pp}The aftermath of the severe runaway veld fires experienced in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands near Howick on Monday 25 June 2007, has resulted in many people in the area being left destitute and homeless.

{pp}Radio Pulpit has been broadcasting the past 25 years and for people who are not listeners, the station has always been a bit of a mystery. A Christian radio station? That caters for all cultures and Christian denominations in SA?

{pp}South African video sharing website MyVideo.co.za has teamed up with Grocott's Online and Cue – the official National Arts Festival newspaper, now in its 20th year – to launch an online video channel covering the annual arts festival, which kicked off on 28 June 2007 and runs until 7 July.

{pp}South Africa’s hospitality industry is likely to experience much improved service levels once minimum wages become law from 1 July this year. In terms of a new determination under the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, businesses associated with the hospitality industry will have to pay employees such as waiters as minimum wage.

{pp}A mystical brotherhood; seeking to be ‘non-contemporary’ and in rejecting all false conventionalism, so searches for a poetic evasion in an almost lost world of unreal and languid beauty. David Krut Projects is bracing for their next exhibition of art and performance by the pre-Crapalite Brotherhood of Robert Whitehead and Johan Engels.

Exhibition opens 23 June - 15 July 2007.

{pp}A brand new 6700sq.m. mall is set to grace the N2 at the gateway to Grabouw in the near future. Marsh Rose Mall – named after a rare fynbos species found only in the Elgin mountains – is being developed by local company Realcor Cape and has just broken ground opposite the Orchard Farmstall, adjacent to the N2 en route to Hermanus and the Southern Cape.

{pp}With the end of apartheid came the beginning of economic redress. Before South Africa’s first democratic elections, inequalities of income and wealth were the worst measured anywhere. Since then, perhaps the greatest struggle has been the attempt to undo the economic vestiges of the system of racial exclusivity. At the heart of this redress is the reduction of poverty and inequality. But just how much has been changed?

{pp}Poverty and Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa (HSRC Press) will be launched at Constitution Hill on Monday, 11 December 2006 at 5:00 for 5:30pm as part of the ongoing public programme Inside Out Series. Alan Hirsch, Chief Director of the Economic Sector within the Presidency, will speak about the volume and the contribution of these authors to the debate on how South Africa is dealing with the challenges of poverty reduction. Members of the public are welcome to attend and can RSVP by calling (011) 381 3100 or e-mailing. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

With the end of apartheid came the beginning of economic redress. Before South Africa’s first democratic elections, inequalities of income and wealth were the worst measured anywhere. Since then, perhaps the greatest struggle has been the attempt to undo the economic vestiges of the system of racial exclusivity. At the heart of this redress is the reduction of poverty and inequality. But just how much has been changed?