CHRIS THURMAN: Marriage of painting and embroidery a beautiful meeting of minds
In Search of the Birds of the Sea bridges the gaps between Spier’s winelands setting and the village of Hamburg
One of the DA’s most effective political adverts in recent years — though, admittedly, the bar is rather low — shows party leader John Steenhuisen walking along a newly tarred stretch of road and pausing at the point where it turns into a poorly maintained, crumbling surface. This marks the spot where the Western Cape meets the Eastern Cape: where DA service delivery stops and ANC ineptitude begins.
Steenhuisen’s dramatically halted strut makes a crude but accurate claim: the Western Cape is unquestionably SA’s best-governed province. The Eastern Cape is among the worst. It is the poorest; it has the highest levels of unemployment and the lowest percentage of young people in tertiary education. ..
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