shebeen

In 1951, she appeared as a shebeen queen in Cry, the Beloved Country, which starred Sidney Poitier.

Walter Bowers, I learned later in life, was a philanderer who left Johanna to live with Mary, a colored "shebeen queen" in the industrial, central Johannesburg suburb of Doornfontein (shebeens were illegal bars where millions of nonwhite South Africans--who were, until 1961, forbidden to drink alcohol--drank themselves blind).

The first clue that this will be no prettied-up version of rural life is the bleak plainness of Francis O'Connor's set representing a country shebeen: dirty stucco walls, an open turf fire center stage and several inches of dirt on the floor that stain Pegeen Mike's hem.

Clive Cox's three-year-old won in good style at Salisbury by a length and three-quarters from Shebeen and still looks one step ahead of the handicapper.

In both his collages and his installations, Hassan gathers paper torn from billboard advertisements, or objects found in mining quarters or in a shebeen (a township bar) and reassembles them to present composite portraits not specific events, people or places, but a multi-layered compilation of things remembered and experienced over time.

For a change of pace, experience a cultural village at Lesedi, or share your views with the locals at a shebeen in Johannesburg.

In the early days, the shebeen society had been the centre of Irish culture.

Migrant Worker's Quarters, 1997, re-created the cramped, lonely room of a migrant worker; Esiphothini (Shebeen), 1997, a meticulous simulacrum of a shebeen, a kind of South African domestic speakeasy, was replete with empty beer bottles, overflowing ashtrays, and the sounds of pop music and partyers' voices.

Pieters allegedly stabbed Moses Uapingathana in the chest with a knife at a shebeen in the TransNamib residential area on 12 May.

have if we going to "My house is a ceili house, not a shebeen. It never has been and never will be."

"I do not see myself behind the scenes as a director or acting in a films, I love the adrenaline rush of performing in front of a live audience," she said English has had small roles before and has also been an assistant director before, but one of her memorable roles besides playing Poppie Plaatjies in 'My Koek is Moeg', was playing Lettie in Shebeen Queen.

As long as shebeen owners need to buy food and send children to school shebeens will thrive at the lack of other opportunities.

Not a weekend to go to town with the rent money, still, there will be a great buzz in every pub, bookie and shebeen west of Dubai on Saturday afternoon.

Seven out of the Textile Holding Company's 32 companies are striking, including Mahalla, Kafr Al-Dawar, Sbahy Al-Biza, STIA, Shebeen Al-Kom, and Nasr, Al-Faioumy said.